Speaking with children: Advice from investigative interviewers

Handbook for the Treatment of Abused and Neglected Children

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 65-81

  Lyon, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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