LGBTQ Clients in Therapy

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Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

By Joe Kort

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LGBTQ Clients in Therapy by Joe Kort is an essential guide for therapists treating LGBTQ individuals and couples, emphasising the need to go beyond being merely "gay friendly." It addresses the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ clients, including issues in "mixed" orientation relationships, non-heteronormative behaviours, and the trauma of suppressing sexual and gender identities. The book promotes gay affirmative principles to help therapists build trusting, supportive relationships.
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This book is ideal for therapists, mental health professionals, and clinicians seeking to deepen their understanding and improve their practice with LGBTQ clients.

All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients.

Description

A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than gay friendly. Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing in today's world.

LGBTQ Clients in Therapy covers topics such as how to avoid making the common mistake of believing that "a couple is a couple," thus treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts; how to treat clients struggling in "mixed" orientation marriages and relationships (straight and LGBTQ spouses in the same couple); and how to work with all clients who have non-heteronormative sexual behaviours and practices.

Perhaps most importantly, the book discusses covert cultural sexual abuse (the trauma suffered from having to suppress one's own sexual and gender identity) as well as the difficult process of coming out to family and friends.

A therapist's job is to help clients and their identities through their own lens and not anyone else's—especially the therapist's. The gay affirmative principles put forward in this book will help you build a stronger relationship with your LGBTQ clients and become the go-to therapist in your area.

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Praised by Jack Drescher, MD, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, this book draws on extensive clinical and teaching experience to serve as a practical starting point for clinicians aiming to effectively support LGBTQ populations.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781324000488

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 March 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 8.0mm

Width: 157.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 670g

Pages: 480

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Joe Kort LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction

About the Author

Joe Kort, PhD, MA, MSW, ACSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice. He lives in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan.