The new gay teenager /
Savin-Williams, Ritch C.
The new gay teenager / Ritch C. Savin-Williams. - xi, 272 pages ; 22 cm. - Adolescent lives ; 3 . - Adolescent lives ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
Why the new gay teenager? -- Who's gay? -- In the beginning ... was gay youth -- Models or trajectories? -- Feeling different -- Same-sex attractions -- First sex -- Identity -- Resilience and diversity -- Refusing and resisting sexual identity labels.
Argues that the standard image of gay youth as depressed, isolated, and drug-dependent that was presented by mental health researchers twenty years ago may have been exaggerated and offers a more accurate portrayal of gay youths in the early twenty-first century.
0674016734 9780674016736
2004059787
Gay teenagers--Psychology
Gay teenagers--Mental health
HQ76.25 / .S395 2005
305.235
The new gay teenager / Ritch C. Savin-Williams. - xi, 272 pages ; 22 cm. - Adolescent lives ; 3 . - Adolescent lives ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
Why the new gay teenager? -- Who's gay? -- In the beginning ... was gay youth -- Models or trajectories? -- Feeling different -- Same-sex attractions -- First sex -- Identity -- Resilience and diversity -- Refusing and resisting sexual identity labels.
Argues that the standard image of gay youth as depressed, isolated, and drug-dependent that was presented by mental health researchers twenty years ago may have been exaggerated and offers a more accurate portrayal of gay youths in the early twenty-first century.
0674016734 9780674016736
2004059787
Gay teenagers--Psychology
Gay teenagers--Mental health
HQ76.25 / .S395 2005
305.235