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Matched trauma: The role of parents’ and children’s shared history of childhood domestic violence exposure in parents’ report of children’s trauma-related symptomatology

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Pages 81-96 | Received 09 Feb 2015, Accepted 30 May 2015, Published online: 19 Dec 2015

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