The gay adolescent: Stressors, adaptations, and psychosocial interventions

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 191-216

  Radkowsky, Michael ^b   Siegel, Lawrence J ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EROTISM; FAMILY LIFE; GENDER IDENTITY; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; LONELINESS; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIETY; STRESS; SUICIDE;

EID: 0030889776     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7358(97)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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