Clinical interventions by psychologists with lesbians and gay men

Jordan, Karen M.; Deluty, Robert H.

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“…More recent studies also suggest that the legacy of the pathological view of homosexuality continues to impact psychological treatment of LGB individuals. In a survey of clinical psychologists, although 79% reported that they viewed homosexuality as acceptable, 12.9% reported that they viewed homosexuality as a psychosexual disorder, and 5% described it as a personality disorder (Jordan & Deluty, 1995). In this same survey, 5.8% supported the use of aversion therapy to change sexual orientation, and 11% supported the use of methods such as psychoanalysis for this purpose.…”

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Enhancing Therapeutic Effectiveness With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients

Eubanks-Carter¹

2005

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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With increasing public acceptance of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, therapists can expect to encounter more opportunities to work with LGB clients. As therapists, we need to be certain that we can provide competent care to this population, which has been poorly served in the past by practitioners taught to view homosexuality as pathological. Most therapists have never received training in working affirmatively with LGB clients.We may be unaware of how the pathological view of homosexuality continues to influence our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in subtle ways. By becoming more aware of our attitudes toward LGB individuals, and by learning more about issues that many LGB individuals face, we can increase our clinical effectiveness with LGB clients.

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Enhancing Therapeutic Effectiveness With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients

Eubanks-Carter¹

2005

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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“…One survey of randomly selected psychologists found that approximately 6% of respondents still advocate conversion therapy (Jordan & Deluty, 1995). Only one study to date has addressed the degree to which career counselors practice affirming approaches with gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients (Bieschke & Matthews, 1996).…”

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Career Assessment With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals

Prince

1997

Journal of Career Assessment

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This article discusses key concepts in the counseling and assessment literature that can guide sound career assessment with lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. Sexual identity development and environmental factors are discussed as variables central to career assessment. In addition, a number of potential sources of assessment bias are identified in the design, selection, and use of career assessment tools.Following nearly a century of silence throughout the history of vocational psychology, the study of the career issues relating to lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals has developed recently into a legitimate scholarly focus within the career literature. More than 40 articles relating to the career behavior of lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals as a nonethnic minority group have been published in the professional literature-over 75% of these within the past 5 years alone. The literature has focused primarily on providing career counselors with suggestions for practice and intervention with lesbian and gay clients (Pope, 1995) but also includes several empirical investigations and theoretical efforts directed toward expanding our models of career behavior (Croteau & Bieschke, 1996). Rarely, however, have writers specifically addressed the issue of career assessment; any attempt to organize and apply the body of career counseling work systematically to the career assessment of lesbians, gay men, or bisexual individuals is noticeably lacking.This article provides a first step toward correcting that lack. Through a review of existing literature, both empirical and theoretical, this article discusses some of the central concepts that bear directly and indirectly on assessing the career concerns and situations of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. The term assessment is defined broadly, to include interview, testing, and other methods of assessment that are used to evaluate an individual's career situation or concerns.

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“…Moreover, some lesbigay students have reported evidence of bias or discrimination in textbooks, course materials, course content, instructor comments, research supervision, clinical practica and internships, interactions with program administrators and other faculty, teaching assistantships, and course content (Pilkington & Cantor, 1996). As a result, many mental health professionals engage in a number of harmful practices, many of which are proscribed under the ethical guidelines of their profession (Davis, Cole, & Rothblum, 1996;Garnets, Hancock, Cochran, Goodchilds, & Peplau, 1991;Jordan & Deluty, 1995;Liddle, 1996Liddle, , 1997Milton & Coyle, 1998;Trippet, 1994;Welch, 2000).…”

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Infusing Lesbigay Research into the Counseling Research Classroom

Erwin

2006

Journal of Homosexuality

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Despite research findings that lesbigays value, want, and use counseling services, some counselors report they are not adequately prepared to work with the lesbigay population. Lesbigay students have reported biases and discrimination in their programs. Research has found that some mental health professionals engage in a number of harmful practices when working with lesbigay clients. These findings challenge counselor education programs to find better ways of infusing lesbigay issues into their curricula. This article discusses how lesbigay issues might be infused into the counseling research classroom in ways that provide students the opportunity to think critically; learn about research design and ethics; expand their levels of tolerance; develop a deeper appreciation of the work involved in doing research; and see the power of research to change the course of history.

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Clinical interventions by psychologists with lesbians and gay men

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Enhancing Therapeutic Effectiveness With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients

Enhancing Therapeutic Effectiveness With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients

Career Assessment With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals

Infusing Lesbigay Research into the Counseling Research Classroom

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