Adolescents' need to talk about sex and sexuality in an urban mental health setting

Social Work in Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 135-153

  Labor, Nyanda ^a   Medeiros, Daniel ^b,c   Carlson, Erika ^b   Pullo, Nancimarie ^b   Seehaus, Mavis ^b   Peake, Ken ^b   Epstein, Irwin ^d  

^a Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center AHC   (United States)

^b AHC   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Help seeking; Risk; Sex; Sexual health; Sexuality; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444471114     PISSN: 15332985     EISSN: 15332993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J200v03n01_08     Document Type: Article

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