Improving comfort about sex communication between parents and their adolescents: Practice-based research within a teen sexuality group

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-390

  Burgess, Valerie ^a   Dziegielewski, Sophia F ^a,b   Green, Cheryl Evans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b School of Social Work   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent sexuality; Familial sex education; Groups and sex education; Parent adolescent communication; Sex education; Teens and sex education

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044442681     PISSN: 14743310     EISSN: 14743329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhi023     Document Type: Article

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