Contents:
- ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
- ASSOCIATN FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR ISSU COUNSELG
ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
Although a person’s sexual or romantic orientatn or genr inty may not be a source of distrs, people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, asexual, or any other orientatn or genr inty may fd that the social stigma of livg as a mory is a source of strs or anxiety. The current acronym reprents those who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng, tersex, and asexual. Acrdg to a 2007 survey, stunts who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr were almost ten tim as likely to have experienced bullyg and victimizatn at school and more than twice as likely to have nsired suici as their heterosexual, non-transgenr classmat wh the prev year.
ASSOCIATN FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR ISSU COUNSELG
Early edns of the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM) intified homosexualy as a mental disorr, until clil rearch monstrated sexual or romantic attractn to someone of the same genr is a normal, healthy, posive form of human sexualy. As the work proceeds, is revealed that John is out to his fay (who accepts him entirely) and publicly, while Paolo do not want his fay to know he is gay. In many ways, the practice of psychotherapy wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) patients do not differ om treatments ed wh heterosexual, genr nformg, and cisgenr patients.
In this article, the abbreviatn LGBT is ed as shorthand for a wi range of inti, sometim wrten as LGBTQQI+, meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, and tersex, wh the + ditg that the list do not leate all possible sexual and genr inti. A lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr inty is evably lked to multiple inti: child, parent, spoe and/or partner, siblg, profsnal, employer, employee, ngregant, patient, or if a patient’s LGBT inty is not the primary foc of treatment, s impact on the urse of treatment should not be unrtimated or overlooked. However, this attu may overlook the fact that growg up lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr is a different cultural experience than growg up heterosexual and cisgenr.