Transgender Emotional and Coping Processes: Facilitative and Avoidant Coping Throughout Gender Transitioning

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 601-647

  Budge, Stephanie L ^a   Katz Wise, Sabra L ^b   Tebbe, Esther N ^c   Howard, Kimberly A S ^d   Schneider, Carrie L ^e   Rodriguez, Adriana ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Cortez Middle School ^*  (United States)

^f National Alliance on Mental Illness   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; LGBT; qualitative; social justice; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876255888     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: 15523861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000011432753     Document Type: Article

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