Trying to Understand Why Horrible Things Happen: Attribution, Shame, and Symptom Development Following Sexual Abuse

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  2002

• Venue

  Child Maltreatment

• Publication date

  2002-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1177/1077559502007001003PMID 11838512
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