A holistic approach to interviewing and treating children in the legal system

Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 219-250

  Saywitz, Karen J ^a   Esplin, Phillip ^b   Romanoff, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203936832     Document Type: Chapter

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