Transactivism as therapy: A client self-empowerment model linking personal and social agency

Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 77-98

  Raj, Rupert ^a  

^a Sherbourne Health Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activism; Adlerian psychology; Advocacy; Community; Mental health; Psychotherapy; Self disclosure; Transactivism; Transgender; Transphobia; Transsexual; Two spirit

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249046442     PISSN: 08917140     EISSN: 15407128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J236v11n03_05     Document Type: Article

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