This text is comprehensive as are all of the chapters that also include practice implications. The historical and heterosexist contexts lay the setting for the multitude of topics including more detailed knowledge about bisexual and transgender persons than is in most texts on LGBT persons. This text can be the main text for a course on LGBT persons as students would be informed in detail about many topics they may be called upon to address with this population and as affirmative practitioners. -- Ski Hunter, University of Texas at Arlington, School of Social Work, author of Midlife and Older LGBT Adults: Knowledge and Affirmative Practice for the Social Services Leading social work academics in the field of GLBT practice have assembled a remarkably comprehensive and scholarly volume that is an indispensable resource for social work educators, researchers, and practitioners. By thoroughly describing the concerns of bisexual and transgender clients and emphasizing structural oppression and environmental interventions, the authors have created a work that distinguishes itself from its predecessors and is destined to be a classic text. Certainly A MUST READ for not only GLBT classes but also general diversity, oppression, and human behavior courses. -- Michael LaSala, Rutgers School of Social Work Morrow and Messinger have provided the social work profession with an excellent new book about GLBT people. Along with having compiled an impressive list of contributors, the organization of the book is particularly impressive. This book should be required reading for all social workers and a standard reference for GLBT issues. -- K. Jean Peterson, University of Kansas School of Social Work
Deana F. Morrow is associate professor of social work at Winthrop University, in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She received her doctorate in Counselor Education from North Carolina State University, the Master of Social Work Degree and a graduate level Certificate of Gerontology from the University of Georgia, and a Master's Degree in Counseling from Western Carolina University. Dr. Morrow teaches micro and mezzo practice courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her practice background is in clinical practice in the fields of mental health, aging, and healthcare. Her research focus is in the areas of social work practice with sexual minority populations and social work education. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of North Carolina, and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers at the national level. She holds memberships in the National Association of Social Workers and the Council on Social Work Education where she holds a national appointment to the Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression. She is also a member of the Educators and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, sponsored by the Social Worker Baccalaureate Program Directors Association. In addition, Dr. Morrow holds a gubernatorial appointment to the North Carolina Social Work Certification and Licensure Board. She is also a Certified Site Visitor for the reaccreditation of social work education programs through the Council on Social Work Education. Lori Messinger is assistant professor of social work and director of the BSW program at the University of Kansas. Messinger is an Assistant Professor in the school of social work at North Carolina State University. She, too, has written several journal articles on gay and lesbian issues and rural social work. Deana F. Morrow, PhD, LPC, LCSW, ACSW, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She received her doctorate in Counselor Education from North Carolina State University, the Master of Social Work Degree and a graduate level Certificate of Gerontology from the University of Georgia, and a Master's Degree in Counseling from Western Carolina University. Dr. Morrow teaches micro and mezzo practice courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her practice background is in clinical practice in the fields of mental health, aging, and healthcare. Her research focus is in the areas of social work practice with sexual minority populations and social work education. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of North Carolina, and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers at the national level. She holds memberships in the National Association of Social Workers and the Council on Social Work Education where she holds a national appointment to the Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression. She is also a member of the Educators and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, sponsored by the Social Worker Baccalaureate Program Directors Association. In addition, Dr. Morrow holds a gubernatorial appointment to the North Carolina Social Work Certification and Licensure Board. She is also a Certified Site Visitor for the reaccreditation of social work education programs through the Council on Social Work Education.Lori Messinger (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Professor in the school of social work at North Carolina State University. She, too, has written several journal articles on gay and lesbian issues and rural social work.
"...a must read for anyone in the helping professions, from medicine to counseling to education itself." -- Gabriel Rupp & James Vaughn, PsycCritiques " "The book is a thorough summary of practice and policy issues... a good addition to the social work literature." -- Stephanie K. Swann, Health & Social Work
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