Most therapy is set up in a heterosexist context. Explore the issues facing your gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients--and how to deal with them! The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients offers therapists treating lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients innovative, practical interventions plus homework and hands-on activities tailored to these populations. Use the notebook to explore the issues surrounding coming out, homophobia in the workplace, spirituality, identity formation, and issues that require a non-heterosexist approach, such as domestic violence and relationship concerns. Grounded in current theory, each chapter explains the rationale for the activity it proposes, includes contraindications, and provides a list of helpful resources for therapists and clients. Here are just a few of the issues this extraordinary book explores in its four thoughtfully planned sections: Section I: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Coming Out and Managing Homophobia and Heterosexism addresses: conflicts in self-perceptions obstacles to the growth of a healthy GLB identity dealing with the trauma and anxiety that result from discrimination using semi-hypnotic visualization to treat internalized homophobia helping bisexuals decide whether to come out or to “pass” coping with internalized homophobic messages dealing with heterosexism in the workplace or at school Section II: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Relationship Issues will help you and your clients understand and work on issues involving: choosing the right partner intimacy and gender roles financial stability assimilation, queer pride, and everything in between how ethnicity and coupling impact sexual identity negotiating a healthy open relationship sexual concerns, sexual dysfunction, and pleasuring sexual role values for bisexual and lesbian women Section III: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Gender, Ethnic, and Sexual Identity Issues addresses “who am I” issues: sexual orientation and gender identity the intersection of sexual and ethnic identity oppression on multiple fronts gender exploration for lesbians Section IV: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Specific Issues tackles concepts including: enhancing resilience through spirituality reconciling with religion spiritual wellness and the spiritual autobiography body image disturbances unwanted sexual behavior creating a safety plan in case of same-sex domestic violence alienation and finding a caring community medication adherence for HIV+ clients the difficulties faced by coupled lesbians with children family care planning addiction and recovery healing from the wounds of homophobia relationships with ex-partners managing workplace stress If you're new to treating lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients you’ll find rich material, based in current literature, to guide your work. If you've already worked extensively with LGBT clients, the activities and fresh, innovative strategies in The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients will expand and invigorate your skills. Reviews: “CHOCK-FULL OF ACTIVITIES that can be used in individual or group counseling or with training programs for gay, lesbian, or bisexual clients or students. While the impact may be greatest for sexual minorities, many of these activities will be impactful in classes devoted to helping non-gay persons develop sensitivity to and awareness of the experiences of sexual minorities. I have no doubt that CLIENTS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THESE EXERCISES WILL EMERGE WITH A CLEARER IDEA OF THEIR OWN SEXUAL IDENTITY and feel freer to live in the larger world. I look forward to using many of them with clients and with my students.” Bob Barrett, PhD, Professor of Counseling, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Co-author of Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer “EXCITING . . . CONTAINS SOMETHING FOR EVERY SEXUAL MINORITY CLIENT. . . . A collection of assignments that are clinically sound and grounded in theory, yet practical and useful. The editors provide activities for many of the dilemmas that arise in psychotherapy, including quandaries that are rarely addressed in other sources. Some of these more unique situations include client concerns with gender identity, passages from heterosexuality into homosexuality, surviving the trauma of heterosexism, integrating sexual orientation and ethnicity, understanding the politics of sexual orientation and identity, coping with unwanted sexual behavior, and the concerns of disabled sexual minorities.” Kathleen Y. Ritter, PhD, Professor and Coordinator of Counseling Psychology, California State University - Bakersfield; Co-author of Handbook of Affirmative Psychotherapy with Lesbians and Gay Men Contents: About the Editors Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Section I: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Coming Out and Managing Homophobia and Heterosexism 1. Conflicts in Self-Perceptions in the Coming-Out Process 2. Hurdles 3. Homosexual Identity Formation: Identifying Obstacles of Growth 4. Semihypnotic Visualization: Treating Internalized Homophobia in Sexual and Gender Minorities 5. Queer Space: Empowering Realizations of Sacred Sexuality 6. To Pass or Not to Pass: Exploration of Conflict Splits for Bisexual-Identified Clients 7. Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Path to Validation 8. The Experiential Ecomap Exercise: Creating Client-Based Narratives of the Influence of Ecosystemic Environments on the Coming-Out Process 9. Coming Out of Marriage: Developing an Emerging Gay, Lesbian, or Bisexual Identity 10. Who Told Me That?: Challenging Internalized Homophobic Messages 11. Surviving Trauma and Anxiety As a Result of Events of Discrimination 12. Managing Heterosexism at Work or School 13. Overcoming Biphobia Section II: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Relationship Issues 14. Assimilation, Queer Pride, and In Between: Personalizing GLBT Relationships, Sexual Practices, and Politics 15. Financial Stability Within the Lesbian Relationship 16. Choosing a Partner 17. Creating a Cultural and Sexual Genogram 18. Knowing You, Knowing Me: Sexual Identity and the Couple 19. Working with Couples on Ethnicity and Sexual Identity: The “Parts” Interview 20. Creating a “Thicker Description”: Understanding Identity in Mixed-Identity Relationships 21. Opening the Door or Locking it Tight: The Negotiation of a Healthy Open Relationship 22. Gender Roles and Intimacy for Gay Men 23. Sexual Concerns/Sexual Dysfunction Assessment 24. Sexual Pleasuring Sessions 25. Exploring and Negotiating Sexual Meanings 26. Enhancing Relationships: Sex-Role Values of Lesbian and Bisexual Women Section III: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Gender, Ethnic, and Sexual Identity Issues 27. The Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression Continuum 28. The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Gender Expression Genogram 29. Challenging Multiple Oppressions with GLBT Clients 30. Who Am I Really?: Understanding the Intersection of Sexual and Ethnic Identity 31. Facilitating Lesbian Gender Exploration Section IV: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Specific Issues 32. A Coming-Out Ritual: Using Spirituality to Enhance Resilience 33. Reconciling with Religion/Exploring Spirituality 34. Facilitating Spiritual Wellness with Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals: Composing a Spiritual Autobiography 35. Body As Self: Resolving Body Image Disturbances in Gay Men 36. Feelings and Meaning Associated with Unwanted Sexual Behavior 37. An Alphabet of GLBT and Disability Issues 38. Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Establishing a Safety Plan with Victims 39. Same-Sex Domestic Violence: A Tool for Batterers 40. Helping HIV-Positive Gay Men on Antiretroviral Therapy Maintain Their Medication Adherence 41. The Balancing Act: Two Lesbian Moms 42. Family Care Planning for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Parents: Creating Healthy Living Environments for Adults and Children 43. Making Connections: Parallel Process in Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Recovery from Addiction and Healing from Homophobia 44. Examining Links Between Drug or Alcohol Use and Experiences of Homophobia/Biphobia and Coming Out 45. Out in the Workplace: A Cost-Benefit View 46. Managing Stress: Helping Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Cope with Coming Out in the Workplace 47. A Rainbow of Allies 48. Assisting Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth in Finding a Community 49. Negotiating Relationships with Ex-Partners Index Reference Notes Included from the publisher's website
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