Sex with Children Is Abuse: Comment on Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 707-714

  Ondersma, Steven J ^b   Berliner, Lucy ^c   Chaffin, Mark ^c   Cordon, Ingrid ^a   Goodman, Gail S ^a   Barnett, Douglas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; NOMENCLATURE; PEER REVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD;

CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MORALS; PEER REVIEW; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL VALUES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 85047684920     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.127.6.707     Document Type: Article

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