Measuring child maltreatment: A comparison of prospective parent reports and retrospective adolescent reports

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 424-435

  Tajima, Emiko A ^a   Herrenkohl, Todd I ^a   Huang, Bu ^a   Whitney, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD WELFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 8444248306     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.74.4.424     Document Type: Article

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