APA’s Guil for Psychotherapy Wh Lbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients: The Fundamentals for Practice

journal of gay and lesbian psychotherapy

In many ways, psychotherapy wh lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) patients do not differ om psychotherapy for heterosexual, genr nformg, and cisgenr patients. Addnally, ncepts and nsiratns that arise psychotherapy wh LGBT patients n parallel issu that a …

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

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.

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

APA’S GUIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY WH LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL CLIENTS: THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR PRACTICE

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).

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