Sexual harassment and posttraumatic stress disorder: Damages beyond prior abuse

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 405-418

  Stockdale, Margaret S ^a   Logan, T K ^b   Weston, Rebecca ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damages; Intimate partner violence; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Sexual harassment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COURT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPENSATION AND REDRESS; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 70350007032     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-008-9162-8     Document Type: Article

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