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Contents:

• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER
• ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER 1ST EDN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)
• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER - SOFTVER

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER

Homosexual Married to Heterosexual. Internalized Homophobia.

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.

ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS

Mory StrsThe LGBT muny is not a homogeno group.

As one gay patient put , “We are the only mory group born to the enemy mp” (14). Lendg support to that observatn is the fact that 30% of homels youths are LGBT, most often rultg om beg forced out of their home or feelg a need to n away om home bee their sexual orientatn, genr inty, and/or genr exprsn are not accepted (15) the nsequenc of wispread negative attus toward LGBT dividuals, is not surprisg that they may be unable to acknowledge to themselv, or reveal to others, any homoerotic feelgs, attractns, or fantasi.

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER 1ST EDN

Clil prentatns related to beg the closet n vary severy, om the ls tense se of a young adult man nsirg the possibily that he might be gay to more severe maniftatns, which any ht of same-sex feelgs ris totally out of nsc awarens. Stayg the closet is sometim done for relig reasons; at other tim is due to personal choice, such as an dividual’s efforts to mata a stable, heterosexual, cisgenr Out of the ClosetGay people the pre-war years, then, did not speak of g out of what we ll the “gay closet” but rather of g out to what they lled “homosexual society” or the “gay world, ” a world neher so small, nor so isolated, nor, often so hidn as “closet” impli.

—Gee Chncey (18)In ntemporary age, “g out of the closet” means tellg another person that one is lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Comg out to onelf as lbian, gay, or bisexual may prece any sexual ntact or may occur durg a sexual moment.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX (LGBTQI+)

Herdt and Boxer (20) have scribed g out as a rual procs of passage requirg a lbian, gay, or bisexual person to unlearn prcipl of sentialist heterosexualy, unlearn stereotyp of homosexualy, and learn the ways of LGBT culture. OutgWhat me to be lled outg—clarg closeted public figur to be gay—was... The fantasied beliefs are often enabled, sometim even enuraged, by clicians who believe that two people talkg a room have the necsary tools to disver the origs of eher homosexual or transgenr realy, any “” rema unknown (26).

In the se of lbian, gay, and bisexual people, the etlogil narrativ take three forms: theori of normal variatn, theori of pathology, and theori of immatury (14, 30).

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER - SOFTVER

Theori of pathology fe a homosexual or bisexual orientatn or a transgenr inty as psychopathologil, a disease or abnormal ndn that viat om blogilly pretermed heterosexual, cisgenr velopment. Theori of normal variatn regard homosexualy and transgenr prentatns as phenomena that occur naturally and that are not signs of illns or psychopathology.

(32, 33) played a signifint role the eventual dissematn, among both health profsnals and the general public, of theori of homosexualy as a normal variatn. Today, the belief that one is born gay or transgenr is the most mon theory of normal variatn.