Empowerment Psychotherapy with Adolescent Females of Color

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1215-1224

  Querimit, Dara S ^a   Conner, Latoya C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent females of color; Empowerment; Ethnicity; Psychotherapy; Race

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEGRO; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0344307594     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.10212     Document Type: Review

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