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A Young Child Who Witnessed Her Mother’s Murder: Therapeutic and Legal Considerations

We call attention to the problems of children who witness parental murder by presenting the treatment of a four-year-old girl. Complex therapeutic and legal dilemmas in such cases require dual roles of the clinician as therapist and as legal advocate for the child.

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