Unmet Health and Mental Health Need Among Adolescents: The Roles of Sexual Minority Status and Child-Parent Connectedness

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 473-481

  Williams, Kelly A ^a   Chapman, Mimi V ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent mental health; Adolescents; Child parent connectedness; Ethnic minority youth; Health insurance; Parents; Racial minority youth; Sexual minority youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; RACE; SEXUAL MINORITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MINORITY GROUPS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867327224     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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