I wish I could tell you but I can't: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV and their dilemmas around self-disclosure

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-60

  Hogwood, Jemma ^a   Campbell, Tomás ^b   Butler, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Newham Psychological Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; disclosure; HIV; interpretative phenomenological analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL STIGMA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOCIAL STIGMA; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872419313     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: 14617021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104511433195     Document Type: Article

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