Online sexuality education and health professional students' comfort in dealing with sexual issues

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-257

  Weerakoon, Patricia ^a   Sitharthan, Gomathi ^a   Skowronski, Dariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gender issues; Individual therapy; Sexual psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 50349092904     PISSN: 14681994     EISSN: 14681749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681990802199926     Document Type: Article

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