Gay adolescents and suicide: Understanding the association

Adolescence

Volumn 40, Issue 159, 2005, Pages 621-628

  Kitts, Robert Li ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 27744471897     PISSN: 00018449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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