Introduction
I. Social, Developmental, and Political Foundations
1. Heterosexism: A Fundamental Reality
2. Concepts of Sexual Orientation
3. Sexual Orientations: Origins and Influences
4. Sexual Orientation and the Law
II. Identity Formation and Psychological Development
5. Theories of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity Formation
6. Issues for Sexual Minority Adolescents
7. Midlife and Later-Life Issues for Sexual Minority Adults
III. Affirmative Practice
8. Psychodiagnostic Considerations
9. Psychotherapeutic Applications for Identity Formation
10. Sexual Minorities within Other Minority Populations
11. Career Choice and Development with Sexual Minority Clients
12. Health and Medical Concerns
13. Religious Concerns and Spiritual Development
IV. Working with Couples and Families
14. Families of Origin and Coming-Out Issues
15. Understanding Same-Sex Couples
16. Sex Therapy with Gay and Lesbian Couples
17. Families with a Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Parent
Resources
References
Index
Kathleen Y. Ritter, PhD, is Professor of Counseling Psychology
at California State University, Bakersfield, and maintains a
private practice. Coauthor of two previous books, she has extensive
experience counseling, teaching, and presenting workshops focused
on working with sexual minority clients.
Anthony I. Terndrup, PhD, is a senior staff therapist at the
Pastoral Counseling Center of the Mid-Willamette Valley in
Corvallis, Oregon and a member of the graduate faculty in Counselor
Education at Oregon State University. He is Past President of the
Association for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues in Counseling (a
division of the American Counseling Association). For over 15
years, he has served sexual minority clients in a variety of
clinical settings, including psychosocial rehabilitation, private
practice, college counseling, and pastoral care.
Together, Drs. Ritter and Terndrup have presented over 30
continuing education workshops on sexual orientation for mental
health professionals across North America.
Excellent....This book is clearly written and attractively and
helpfully laid out. It offers a copious appendix of
resources....Thoughtful study of this book will reward readers with
an excellent education in working with lesbians and gay men to
achieve a position for them in society that is no longer
debilitating but healthful, respected, and possibly,
esteemed.--Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Finally, a core text for the practice of lesbian and gay
affirmative psychotherapy has arrived. This book is scholarly,
clinically savvy, comprehensive, thoughtful, accessible, and
pragmatic. The authors do a remarkable job of advancing a coherent
point of view while remaining even-handed, balanced, and receptive
to a diversity of ideas. I recommend this book without reservation
to any mental health provider working with lesbian and gay clients,
and to scholars seeking a basic reference on the practice of
lesbian and gay affirmative psychotherapy.--John C. Gonsiorek, PhD,
ABPP, Past President, American Psychological Association Division
44; Independent Practice, Minneapolis, MN
This book meets a longstanding need in the professional literature.
It is comprehensive, well grounded, and practical in its focus on
the underlying issues and challenges that emerge in clinical work
with lesbians and gay men. This book is an invaluable addition to
the bookshelves of all mental health practitioners, as well as
students. Including an extensive resource list, the book will be a
useful text for courses in human sexuality, multicultural
counseling, and counseling sexual minorities.--Bob Barret, PhD,
Department of Counseling, Special Education and Child Development,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
This comprehensive text not only includes all the relevant
psychological literature, but also provides the reader with a
sociopolitical context for understanding how heterosexism impacts
the lives of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. A unique aspect of
the book is the thorough presentation of affirmative psychotherapy
interventions. Particularly noteworthy is the discussion of
misdiagnosis that occurs when stress associated with having a
stigmatized identity is mistaken for evidence of psychopathology.
This text should be required reading for graduate students in the
mental health professions, as well as practitioners working with
diverse lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. Many sections of the
book would also be useful for undergraduate students in Psychology,
Sociology, and Women's, LGBT, or Gender Studies.--Christine
Browning, PhD, Senior Staff Psychologist, University of California,
Irvine Counseling Center; Past President, APA Division 44 (Society
for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual
Issues).
Training of mental health professionals is improving when it comes
to education about LGB clients, but there are still many graduate
programs and many textbooks that barely touch on these important
issues....The amount of research reviewed here and the implications
drawn from that research are outstanding....No matter how
knowledgeable readers believe themselves to be on LGB issues and no
matter whether students, therapists, educators, or researchers,
they will be pleased at how much more they will learn from this
book.--from the Foreword by Sari H. Dworkin, PhD
- An excellent resource for ideas about how to create the best
possible therapeutic environment for a sexual minority client.
--Contemporary Psychology, 1/18/2002ƒƒ This useful and
comprehensive volume addresses the needs of the psychotherapeutic
community in capturing the complex multidimensionality of LGB
experience in today's society and the psychological issues that
surround this....A supremely useful book that can inform both
straight and LGB therapists. --Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy,
1/18/2002ƒƒ From the LGB teenager to the senior citizen and the
single gay man to the committed lesbian couple, the Handbook
details the rich and varied aspects of sexual minorities in clear,
concise details that will enable the mental health professional to
better connect with this often underserved segment of the
population. --Social Work Today, 1/18/2002
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