Achieving competent family practice with same-sex parents: Some promising directions

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 89-113

  Coates, Jacky ^a   Sullivan, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological systems theory; Family systems theory; Family therapy; Queer theory; Role differentiation; Same sex marriage; Same sex parents; Structural social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645784614     PISSN: 1550428X     EISSN: 15504298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J461v01n02_06     Document Type: Review

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