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Kevin Alderson - University of Calgary, Canada

Other Titles in:
Counselling and Psychotherapy (General) | Gay & Lesbian Psychology | Multicultural Social Work

May 2012 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Understanding and Counseling Sexual Minorities is a practical book aimed at courses for counselors and other mental health professionals in training. The book will serve as a practical guide and text for courses specifically aimed at working with GLBT clients and/or courses in multicultural counseling or sex therapy.

It will provide a historical and contemporary look at gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered clients from a variety of cultural perspectives. It will also provide empirically based counseling strategies and interventions for working with each group.

This book takes a unique cultural approach, as it will bring in personal case studies and narratives of a variety of individuals and cultures from around the globe. The book will contain various self-assessment tools and questionnaires that will aid students and practitioners in examining their own attitudes and beliefs and help challenge current assumptions. The research base is large and rapidly expanding and thus many books that are currently available for course use are sorely outdated.

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Regarding LGBTI Individuals

3. Gay Boys and Men

4. Lesbian Girls and Women

5. Bisexual Boys and Men

6. Bisexual Girls and Women

7. Fetishistic Crossdressing Children and Adults

8. Transsexual Boys and Transwomen

9. Transsexual Girls and Transmen

10. Intersex Children and Adults

11. Conclusions

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Handling the Roleplay Situations

Appendix C: The Sexuality Questionnaire

Appendix D: The Sexual Orientation Counselor Competency Scale

"Counseling LGBTI Clients is based on more empirical research than any other volume that exists on the topic of LGBTI individuals. This practical, easy-to-read guide challenges and changes beliefs about and attitudes toward each LGBTI subgroup, while preparing practitioners to provide sensitive, informed, and effective affirmative counseling to this largely misunderstood population. The volume is a comprehensive guide for both emerging practitioners and current practitioners, LGBTI individuals, and those who know them."

Sir Read a Lot

Developing a coures, and eventually, a specialization in LGBT issues in Counseling.

Dr Joel Filmore

College Of Education, Roosevelt University

March 13, 2013

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