Information-Search and Decision-Making by Professionals and Nonprofessionals in Cases of Alleged Child-Abuse and Maltreatment

Journal of Social Service Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1-18

  Benbenishty, Rami ^a   Segev, Dan ^a   Surkis, Tami ^a   Elias, Tali ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Child abuse and neglect; Decision making; Information search; Judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937386071     PISSN: 01488376     EISSN: 15407314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J079v28n03_01     Document Type: Article

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