This captivating book contains 31 case studies that focus on what is said and done in actual counseling sessions with LGBTQQI clients, including diagnosis; interventions, treatment goals, and outcomes; transference and countertransference issues; other multicultural considerations; and recommendations for further counseling or training.
Experts in the field address topics across the areas of individual development, relationship concerns, contextual matters, and wellness. The cases presented include coming out; counseling intersex, bisexual, and transsexual clients; couples, marriage, and family counseling; parenting issues; aging; working with rural clients and African American, Native American, Latino/a, Asian, and multiracial individuals; sexual minority youth; HIV; sexual and drug addictions; binational couples; work and career; domestic violence; spirituality and religion; sexual issues; and women’s health.
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Cuprins
Foreword vii
Colleen R. Logan
Introduction ix
Sari H. Dworkin and Mark Pope
About the Editors xiii
About the Contributors xv
Section 1 Developmental Issues 1
Chapter 1 Sexual Minority Youth: The Case of Donald Wilson 7
Suzanne M. Dugger and Laurie A. Carlson
Chapter 2 Coming Out for Gay Men 23
John F. Marszalek and Edward P. Cannon
Chapter 3 Counseling Strategies With Intersex Clients: A Process-Based Approach 35
Theodore R. Burnes and Kate Richmond
Chapter 4 Counseling and Advocacy With a Gay Father, a Straight Mom, and a Transgender Adolescent 45
Stuart F. Chen-Hayes
Chapter 5 Counseling Older Gay Men 53
Douglas Kimmel
Chapter 6 Counseling Older Lesbians: The Case of Pat and Selene 63
M. Carolyn Thomas, S. Lenoir Gillam, and Paul F. Hard
Chapter 7 An Asian Indian Woman’s Ethnic, Sexual, and Career Identity 73
Hemla D. Singaravelu
Section 2 Relationship Issues 79
Chapter 8 Lesbian Couples and Marriage Counseling 83
Colleen M. Connolly
Chapter 9 Desire, Love, and Shame in Gay Male Relationships: The Case of Tyler 91
Armand R. Cerbone
Chapter 10 Parenting Issues for Lesbian Couples 103
Susan Kashubeck-West
Chapter 11 A Reluctant Husband and Troubled Family 111
Connie Callahan and Shirley Cornett
Chapter 12 Counseling and Advocacy With An International/Dual National Same-Gender Couple and Family 119
Stuart F. Chen-Hayes
Chapter 13 A Therapist Expands Her Ideas About Relationships 129
Sari H. Dworkin
Chapter 14 Counseling Bisexual Clients: More Than the Sum of the Parts 137
Beth A. Firestein
Section 3 Contextual Issues 147
Chapter 15 Working With African American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People 153
Ron Mc Lean
Chapter 16 Native American and Gay: Two Spirits in One Human Being 163
Mark Pope
Chapter 17 ‘Why Did God Make Me This Way?’ The Case of a Chinese American Gay Christian Man 173
Terry S. Gock
Chapter 18 Counseling Latin Gays and Lesbians 185
Samuel Sanabria and Ana Puig
Chapter 19 Multiracial/Multiethnic Queer and Transgender Clients: Intersections of Identity and Resilience 197
Anneliese A. Singh and Kirstyn Yuk Sim Chun
Chapter 20 Transsexual Case Studies: Transition Is Not the End of the Road 211
Randall D. Ehrbar
Chapter 21 Counseling With Rural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons 223
Paul A. Datti
Chapter 22 Mario’s Journey of Faith 231
Kathleen Y. Ritter and Anthony I. Terndrup
Section 4 Wellness Issues 241
Chapter 23 Sex and Lesbian Women 249
Joy S. Whitman
Chapter 24 Sexual Addiction and the Gay Male Client 259
Brian J. Dew and Misti A. Storie
Chapter 25 Counseling HIV-Positive Gay Men 269
David W. Hart
Chapter 26 Moving Through the Void: Counseling Gay Men With Histories of Chemical Abuse and Dependency 281
A. Michael Hutchins
Chapter 27 The Case of Eve: A Picture of a Lesbian Health Journey 289
Jane E. Rheineck and Catherine B. Roland
Chapter 28 Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy: Fact, Fiction, and Fraud 297
Douglas C. Haldeman
Chapter 29 Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships 307
Connie R. Matthews and Peggy Lorah
Chapter 30 Using Psychological Assessment Tools With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients 319
Jeffrey P. Prince and Michael J. Potoczniak
Chapter 31 When the Political and the Personal Collide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People as Political Targets 329
Glenda M. Russell
Appendix A Competencies for Counseling Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Clients 341
Appendix B American Counseling Association Competencies for Counseling With Transgender Clients 345
Despre autor
Sari H. Dworkin, Ph D, MFT, is a professor emerita of California State University, Fresno. She taught in the Marriage and Family Therapy master’s program for 25 years. Currently she is in a limited private practice, is licensed as a psychologist, and does volunteer counseling and supervision at the Community Counseling Center in San Luis Obispo, California. Her long career has included many publications and presentations on LGBT issues. In addition, she has held positions in both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Counseling Association (ACA) advocating for LGBT issues. Some of these positions include president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (APA Division 44), cochair of the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ACA), and chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns (APA). In 2009 APA’s Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns presented her with its Outstanding Achievement Award. In 2007 she was elected as an inaugural Legacy Fellow of the Association for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Counseling.
Mark Pope, Ed D, NCC, MCC, MAC, ACS, is professor and chair of the Division of Counseling and Family Therapy at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. He is the author of six books, more than 30 book chapters, more than 40 journal articles, and more than 100 professional presentations at the international, national, and state levels. Dr. Pope has written extensively on various aspects of counseling, including counseling with and the career development of ethnic, racial, and sexual minorities; violence in schools; teaching career and multicultural competence in counseling; psychological testing; international issues in counseling, and the history of and public policy issues in career counseling. His work has appeared as books, as conference presentations, and in such journals as the Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Lesbian and Gay Social Services, Journal of Counseling & Development, The Career Development Quarterly, The Counseling Psychologist, The Family Journal, Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and American Psychologist. Dr. Pope has served as president of the American Counseling Association; the National Career Development Association; the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling; and the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (APA Division 44). He has been elected a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; American Psychological Association; National Career Development Association; Society of Counseling Psychology; Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues; and Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues. He has also served as the editor of The Career Development Quarterly, on the editorial boards of several other professional journals, as well as as the Director of Psychological Services for the American Indian AIDS Institute and the Native American AIDS Project in San Francisco. He has special expertise in Native American, Asian, and sexual minority cultures.