Help‐seeking behavior among young street males

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• Cudore L. Snell, L.I.C.S.W., D.S.W., is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Howard University, Washington, D.C. This article is based upon a doctoral dissertation (Snell, 1989) which was awarded the annual dissertation prize for excellence by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. The author thanks Bogart R. Leashore, Ph.D., Jerry R. Cales, Ph‐D. and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts and Kathy L. Cunningham for her clerical support and good humor.
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