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ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
This is a two-part special issue focg on two cril areas wh the broar needs of of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Genr Expansive, Queer/Qutng, Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agenr, Ally, and Pansexual (LGBTGEQIAP+) youth and adults.
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.