Are multicultural courses addressing disparities? Exploring multicultural and affirmative lesbian, gay, and bisexual competencies of counseling and psychology students

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 132-146

  Bidell, Markus P ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

competencia en consejer a; formaci n; LGB; multicultural

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903746362     PISSN: 08838534     EISSN: 21611912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1912.2014.00050.x     Document Type: Article

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