ABSTRACT

The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is a ground-breaking resource for therapists working with LGBTQ+ clients whose identity expressions span all gender-, sex-, and relationship-diverse groups.

Combining the author’s extensive clinical experience with contemporary evidence-based research, the chapters of this book explore the origins and development of sexual minority groups, going beyond lesbian women and gay men to include transgender and gender nonbinary people, kink and polyamory, bisexuality and pansexuality, and those who identify as asexual or aromantic. The text also offers in-depth coverage of clinical work with transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary clients of all ages. With a wealth of therapeutic strategies and case studies, this resource helps professionals respond to this ‘Big Tent’ community in an informed and empathetic way.

Spanning sexuality, gender, relationships and age groups, The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is an invaluable reference for psychotherapists in a broad range of clinical settings.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Grad School Didn’t Prepare You for This

chapter 1|14 pages

From Bad to Mad to Civil Rights

A History of Deviance and Acceptance of Same-Sex Attracted People

chapter 2|10 pages

The Roads Converge Again

How the ‘T’ Got Added to the LGB

chapter 3|10 pages

The ‘Big Tent’ and Intersectionality

chapter 5|10 pages

Who Is Gay?

chapter 7|14 pages

Today’s Gay or Lesbian Client

chapter 8|12 pages

Issues of Gay Men and Boys

chapter 9|13 pages

Gay Male Couples

chapter 10|13 pages

Counseling Lesbian Women

chapter 11|12 pages

Lesbian Couples

chapter 12|9 pages

Bi Any Other Name

Science Grapples with Multiple Gender Attractions

chapter 14|9 pages

‘Aces and Aros’

Asexuals, Aromantics, and Other Variations on a Theme

chapter 16|16 pages

From Two Genders to Many

chapter 17|15 pages

Working with Adult Transgender Clients

chapter 18|15 pages

Working with the Transgender Adolescent

chapter 19|13 pages

The Gender-expansive Child

chapter 20|10 pages

Nonbinary Identities and Gender Fluidity

chapter 21|12 pages

BDSM Comes Out of the Shadows

chapter 22|18 pages

Working with Kinky Clients

chapter 23|14 pages

Introduction to Consensual Nonmonogamy

chapter 24|12 pages

Working with Clients Who Are Nonmonogamous

And Those Who Want to Be

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

The Tangled Path Forward