False denials: Overcoming methodological biases in abuse disclosure research

Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 41-62

  Lyon, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84925751261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936832     Document Type: Chapter

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