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Developmental and Social Implications of Child Sexual Abuse

Perpetration, Revictimization, and Self-Injury: Traumatic Reenactments of Child Sexual Abuse in a Nonclinical Sample of South African Adolescents

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Pages 708-726 | Received 17 Jul 2013, Accepted 06 Mar 2014, Published online: 12 Aug 2014

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