Gay and Lbian Psychotherapy Treatment Planner by J. M. Evosevich | Open Library

Contents:

• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER
• ISSU ARISG PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR PATIENTS
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER - SOFTVER
• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER (ATLAS OF POLYMER 3RD EDN)
• THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER: 315 (PRACTICEPLANNERS) - TAPA BLANDA
• GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER

Homosexual Married to Heterosexual. Internalized Homophobia. 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. 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.

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

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. 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).

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

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. 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. 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.

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER - SOFTVER

OutgWhat me to be lled outg—clarg closeted public figur to be gay—was...

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER (ATLAS OF POLYMER 3RD EDN)

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). 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.

THE GAY AND LBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER: 315 (PRACTICEPLANNERS) - TAPA BLANDA

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. Theori of immatury regardg homosexualy are found the field of psychoanalysis.

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Frd, for example, saw homosexualy as a velopmental arrt or a psychosexual fixatn (27). Whereas pathologizg theori treat homosexualy as viant and abnormal, immatury theori regard homosexualy as a normal step, ially a passg phase, to be outgrown on the road to adult heterosexualy.

Harry Stack Sullivan hypothized that children who ultimately beme homosexual as adults were members of the “out-group, if only wh rpect to so-lled mutual masturbatn and other prumably homosexual activy which went on this group of boys as preadolcent pals” (34). In matag that homosexualy uld be a normal part of the heterosexual experience, theori of immatury were more clive and passnate than theori of pathology.

They allowed for the possibily of a lbian, gay, or bisexual person beg sufficiently mature to bee heterosexual, if they are motivated enough and have aquate adult (meang heterosexual) etlogil theori are not formulated an objective vacuum. A therapist who thoratively claims knowledge of the five etlogy of beg lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr would have difficulty appreciatg how etlogil narrativ serve as vehicl for other issu.