Permanent Partners: Buildg Gay & Lbian Relatnships That Last|Betty Berzon.

Contents:

• PERMANENT PARTNERS : BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST
• PERMANENT PARTNERS: BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST
• PERMANENT PARTNERS: BUILDG GAY AND LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST - SOFTVER
• PERMANENT PARTNERS: BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST - SOFTVER
• PERMANENT PARTNERS : BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST /
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• ISSU PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN AND GAY MEN: A SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS

PERMANENT PARTNERS : BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST

Gay men and lbians mt learn to imbue relatnships wh the same importance that their heterosexual unterparts do-- a society that still offers none of the same support.

¶ This book, wrten by a psychotherapist who specializ workg wh lbian and gay male upl, offers clear, passnate advice and unselg on the ternal and external problems faced by two men or two women as they create a life together. A gui for lbian and gay upl talks about such ncerns as the mergg of inti, wang sex, the abily to rolve nflicts, petg reer mands, illns, substance abe problems, and mid-life cris. From Library Journal:Berzon's experience as a psychotherapist the homosexual muny for over 16 years most fely shows her practil and passnate advice on ways to strengthen same-sex relatnships.

PERMANENT PARTNERS: BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST

Also clud are brief chapters on fancial issu, legal issu (vered much more pletely Hayn Curry and Denis Clifford's A Legal Gui for Gay and Lbian Coupl, 1988, Nolo Pr. This book was the one of the first out on gay relatnships that addrsed our issu as gays and lbians wrten by an openly lbian therapist herself.

Berzon shar of her experienc both as a profsnal relatnship unselor and as a lbian, g fact-based scenars to explore the mon stggl, challeng, and temptatns gays and lbians mt overe when fg mted relatnships. Topics clu such basic relatnship them as munitn skills and nflict rolutn, and issu unique to gay & lbian relatnships-om "The Gay Natnal Anthem: 'Why Don't We Jt Break Up?

ISBN-10: 0517080079ISBN-13: 9780517080078Released: Feb 12, 1992Format: HardverDcriptn:Book tails pric to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780517080078‌‌‌Frequently Asked Qutns about Permanent Partners: Buildg Gay & Lbian Relatnships That Last You n buy the Permanent Partners: Buildg Gay & Lbian Relatnships That Last book at one of 20+ onle bookstor wh BookSuter, the webse that helps fd the bt al across the web. Currently, the bt offer om ‌ and is $‌ for the ‌ you’re terted sellg back the Permanent Partners: Buildg Gay & Lbian Relatnships That Last book, you n always look up BookSuter for the bt al. BookSuter checks 30+ buyback vendors wh a sgle search and giv you actual rmatn on buyback pricg for the Permanent Partners: Buildg Gay & Lbian Relatnships That Last book, the bt buyback offer om ‌ and is $‌ for the book good ndn.

PERMANENT PARTNERS: BUILDG GAY AND LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST - SOFTVER

In 1984, a task force of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) Commtee on Lbian and Gay Concerns was charged wh vtigatg bias psychotherapy wh lbians and gay men. Rults suggt that psychologists vary wily their adherence to a standard of unbiased practice wh gay men and lbians.

PERMANENT PARTNERS: BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST - SOFTVER

In 1975, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) took a strong stance regardg bias toward lbians and gay men, rolvg that "homosexualy per se impli no impairment judgment, reliabily or general social and votnal abili" (see Appendix A for the full text of the rolutn). The APA urged psychologists "to take the lead removg the stigma of mental illns long associated wh homosexual orientatns" (Conger, 1975).

Regnizg that practice do not spontaneoly or quickly follow policy chang, the Commtee on Lbian and Gay Concerns (CLGC), sponsored jotly by the Board of Social and Ethil Rponsibily Psychology (BSERP) and the Board of Profsnal Affairs (BPA), formed a task force 1984 to vtigate the range of bias that may occur psychotherapy wh lbians and gay men.

The missn of CLGC's Task Force on Bias Psychotherapy wh Lbians and Gay Men was to scribe the range of problems that gay male and lbian clients n face psychotherapy and to provi an empiril basis for the velopment of guil and suggtns for practice. In addn to those relatively few psychologists who choose to specialize workg wh lbians and gay men, most nonspecialist therapists will also see gay male and lbian clients. Suggted readgs regardg bias therapy wh lbians and gay men as well as gay-affirmative therapy are listed Appendix B.

PERMANENT PARTNERS : BUILDG GAY & LBIAN RELATNSHIPS THAT LAST /

Although the task force cid to approach issu of sexual orientatn as a generic tegory, there are doubtls many ways which the genr of a gay male or lbian client and the genr of the therapist may be to affect the psychotherapy experience. A full exploratn of this plex issue would require a reful parison of the therapy experienc of lbians vers gay men wh male vers female therapists, an unrtakg beyond the spe of this article. The survey was veloped to elic stanc of biased re as well as exampl of beneficial re provid to gay male and lbian clients.

Rponnts were asked whether they knew of Aany specific experienc of lbian or gay clients psychotherapy om iends or lleagu, om their own profsnal practice, or om their own experienc as a client psychotherapy. Dcribe any cint where a therapist provid biased, aquate, or appropriate re to a gay or lbian client psychotherapy.

Dcribe any cints where a therapist provid re monstratg special sensivy to a gay or lbian client psychotherapy. To obta a large and diverse sample of cril cints volvg both lbian and gay male clients psychotherapy, we soliced opns om a broad group of psychologists. The goal was to clu psychologists who, regardls of their own sexual orientatn, would be likely to have knowledge of the provisn of psychotheraptic servic to gay male and lbian clients, as well as gay male and lbian psychologists who may themselv have received psychotheraptic servic.

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

To ensure a rponse rate aquate for analysis, we ed 1986 APA membership rolls to survey all members, fellows, and associat of Divisns 44 (Society for the Psychologil Study of Gay and Lbian Issu) and 35 (Psychology of Women), and a random sample of 4, 000 licensed members of APA (balanced by genr) who were not members of eher of those divisns.

2%) dited that they knew of psychotherapy experienc of gay and lbian clients and provid cril cint material. Nearly all of the psychotherapy provirs (99%), regardls of sexual orientatn, reported that they had seen at least one gay male or lbian client psychotherapy at some pot durg their reers.

Only 1% of service provirs had never worked wh gay male or lbian clients, and 38% had seen more than 20 such dividuals their reers. Among lbians and gay male practners, 71% specialized treatg homosexual clients, pared wh 42% of the bisexual provirs and only 9% of the heterosexual provirs.

ISSU PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN AND GAY MEN: A SURVEY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS

Task force members nsolidated the rults om the four separate work groups and anized all materials to three broad tegori: strategi of terventn, issu of special relevance to lbian and gay male populatns, and issu about therapists' expertise and trag.

In some stanc, the biased and beneficial them reprent oppose sis of the same issueCfor example, ntrastg a therapist's lack of knowledge about social prejudice agast gay men and lbians wh a therapist's special sensivy to social prejudice. A therapist believ that homosexualy per se is a form of psychopathology, velopmental arrt, or other psychologil disorr:. A therapist fails to regnize that a client's psychologil symptoms or distrs n be fluenced by the client's own negative attus or ias about homosexualy:.

Therapists' outright nial that a client has experienced societal homophobia or therapists' failure to regnize ternalized homophobia as a source of prsn and low self-teem.