Full Description
This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe, collaborative, and peaceful coexistence with our diverse, pluralistic cultures.
The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks, Feel Secure in Yourself and Relate to Others with Confidence, and twelve e-resources self-published by each set of chapter coauthors. The chapter coauthors are scholars, clinicians, and/or community leaders, with differing and sometimes politically opposing viewpoints. They collaborated to find common ground, reduce prejudice, and improve LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a wide range of readers.
These self-help resources are written for the general public and can be used by academics, clinicians, researchers, religious leaders, parents, and other providers who want to learn updated and integrated ideas and skills about sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity, faith and purpose of life, emotional health, resilience, and relationships. This book project is a social experiment of bridge-building and hope to empower readers with identity and skill development and to reduce the side-taking that impairs growth.
Contents
Acknowledgments
A. Lee Beckstead, Jacks Cheng, Sulaimon Giwa, Mark A. Yarhouse, and Iva Žegura
Chapter 1: Live Assertively
Paul Linden, A. Lee Beckstead, Jeannie DiClementi, Julia Mackaronis, Jim Struve, Eduardo Morales, and Tim van Wanrooij
Chapter 2: Find Places to Belong: You Do You
Frances Aranda, Samuel Skidmore, A. Lee Beckstead, Iva Žegura, Christopher H. Rosik, Jay Jacobsen, and João Carvalho
Chapter 3: Develop Your Sexuality and Understand Consent
Jordan Rullo, Alex Rivera, Nathalie Huitema, Don L. Braegger, A. Lee Beckstead, Alison Feit, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, and Kersti Spjut
Chapter 4: Find Your Best Options for LGBTQIA+ Singlehood and Relationships
Moshe-Mordechai (Maurits) van Zuiden, A. Lee Beckstead, Stefano Eleuteri, Erin S. Lavender-Stott, Darren J. Freeman-Coppadge, Tyler Lefevor, Eric Boromisa, Lauren Smithee, Christine Aramburu Alegría, Iva Žegura, and Jeni Wahlig
Chapter 5: Support for Parents of LGBTQIA+ Persons and for LGBTQIA+ Parents
Susanna M. Gallor, Grigoropoulos Iraklis, Mani B. Mitchell, Denise Steers, Walter R. Schumm, Jeni Wahlig, Alejandro Gepp-Torres, Isabel Lima, Jeannie DiClementi, Amanda Veldorale-Griffin, and Brie Radis
References
Index
About the Contributors
