Learning That an Adolescent Child Is Gay or Lesbian: The Parent Experience

Social Work

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-118

  Saltzburg, Susan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Coming out; Gay and lesbian adolescents; Parent adolescent relations; Parents; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ENGLAND; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PARENTS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 1442309009     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/49.1.109     Document Type: Article

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