Working with LGBT parents

Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 149-166

  Tasker, Fiona ^a   Malley, Maeve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxleas NHS Foundation Mental Health Trust   (United Kingdom)

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