Profiles of adult survivors of severe sexual, physical and emotional institutional abuse in Ireland

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 387-404

  Fitzpatrick, Mark ^a   Carr, Alan ^a   Dooley, Barbara ^a   Flanagan Howard, Roisín ^a   Flanagan, Edel ^a   Tierney, Kevin ^a   White, Megan ^a   Daly, Margaret ^a   Shevlin, Mark ^b   Egan, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adult survivors; Clerical abuse; Institutional abuse

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649655495     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.1083     Document Type: Article

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