Dental School Administrators’ Attitudes Towards Providing Support Services for LGBT-Identified Students

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 965-970

  Behar Horenstein, Linda S ^a   Morris, Dustin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Cleveland Public Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

dental education; dental students; homosexuality; LGBT; sexual orientation; transgendered persons

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LGBT PEOPLE; MALE; BISEXUALITY; CANADA; CIVIL RIGHTS; CLASSIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; POLICY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSGENDER; UNITED STATES;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE; BISEXUALITY; CANADA; CIVIL RIGHTS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; SCHOOLS, DENTAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945278402     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.0022-0337.2015.79.8.tb05988.x     Document Type: Article

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