The New Gay Teenager
Ritch C Savin-Williams (Author)
Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today
Mental health
1 online resource
9780674043138, 9780674016736, 0674043138, 0674016734
979904436
Preface 1. Why the New Gay Teenager? 2. Who's Gay? 3. In the Beginning... Was Gay Youth 4. Models or Trajectories? 5. Feeling Different 6. Same-Sex Attractions 7. First Sex 8. Identity 9. Resilience and Diversity 10. Refusing and Resisting Sexual Identity Labels Notes References Index
In English