Full Description
This timely volume explores the unique challenges faced by sexual minority (SM) and transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) clients today. Experts in the field examine how the concepts of gender and sexual orientation are both socioculturally-constructed and can be informed by biologically focused research, thus setting the stage for flexible, affirmative mental health services.
Chapters cover a range of practice-focused as well as theory-based topics, including complexity in identity, minority stress, and stigma management. With concise summaries of research findings and detailed case studies, contributors provide an intersectional understanding of how practitioners can work within rapidly changing political and legal contexts to uncover and affirm clients amp rsquo multiple social identities, and build resilience.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Pace of Change and the Challenge to Keep Up
Kurt A. DeBord, Ann R. Fischer, Kathleen J. Bieschke, and Ruperto M. Perez
Part I: Foundational Information for Practitioners
Chapter : Considering Constructions: A New Model of Affirmative Therapy
Ruth E. Fassinger
Chapter 2: Essentialist Views on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Francisco J. S amp aacute nchez and Tyson Pankey
Chapter 3: Context, Stigma, and Therapeutic Practice
Glenda M. Russell and Christopher G. Hawkey
Chapter 4: (Re)Focusing Intersectionality: From Social Identities Back to Systems of Oppression and Privilege
Bonnie Moradi
Part II: Affirmative Counseling With Sexual Minority, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming Clients
Chapter 5: Affirmative Counseling With Sexual Minority Clients
Parrish L. Paul
Chapter : Affirmative Counseling With Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
Anneliese A. Singh and lore m. dickey
Chapter 7: Working With Survivors of Trauma in the Sexual Minority and Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Populations
David W. Pantalone, Sarah E. Valentine, and Jillian C. Shipherd
Chapter 8: Conflicting Identities: Sexual Minority, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming Individuals Navigating Between Religion and Gender Sexual Orientation Identity
Susan Kashubeck-West, Amber M. Whiteley, Tara Vossenkemper, Carol Robinson, and Cori Deitz
Chapter 9: Special Issues in Psychotherapy With Sexual Minority and Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adolescents
Tyrel J. Starks and Brett M. Millar
Chapter : Special Issues Related to Aging Adults
Tammi Vacha-Haase and Weston V. Donaldson
Part III: Essential Areas for Practice, Research, Training, and Health
Chapter : Psychotherapy With Clients Who Have Been Through Sexual Orientation Change Interventions or Request to Change Their Sexual Orientation
Ariel Shidlo and John C. Gonsiorek
Chapter 2: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Issues in the Context of Changing Legal and Social Policy Environments
Charlotte J. Patterson
Chapter 3: Addressing the Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Clients: An Analysis of Recent Research and Scholarship
Roger L. Worthington and Jennah N. Strathausen
Chapter 4: Beyond Competencies and Guidelines: Training Considerations Regarding Sexual Minority and Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People
Julia C. Phillips and Brian R. Fitts
Chapter 5: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Health Issues: Policy and Practice
Douglas C. Haldeman and Kristin A. Hancock
Chapter : Physical Health Concerns Related to Medical Transitions for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
lore m. dickey and Anneliese A. Singh
Afterword
Kurt A. DeBord, Ann R. Fischer, Kathleen J. Bieschke, and Ruperto M. Perez
Appendix: Resource List
Index
About the Editors
