Handbook of LGBT-affirmative couple and family therapy

Bigner, Jerry J. (Added Author). Wetchler, Joseph L. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780415883597 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0415883598 (hardback : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 487 p. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, c2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

LGBTQ couple and family therapy : history and future directions / Shawn V. Giammattei and Robert-Jay Green -- Gay male couple therapy : an attachment-based model / Gil Tunnell -- Lesbian couple therapy / Colleen M. Connolly -- Affirmative bisexual couple therapy / Mary Bradford -- Can couples change gender? : couple therapy with transgender people and their partners / Jean Malpas -- Sex therapy for gay male couples : affirming strengths and stemming challenges / Philip A. Rutter -- Sex therapy with lesbian couples / Marla Cobin and Michele Angello -- Transsexual desire in differently gendered bodies / Arlene Istar Lev and Shannon Sennott -- Coming out to family : adrift in a sea of potential meanings / Valory Mitchell -- Working with LGBT parents / Fiona Tasker and Maeve Malley -- The kids may be all right, but some might still end up in your office : working with children of LGBTQ parents / Katherine Kuvalanka -- Raising lesbian, gay, or bisexual youth : an affirmative family therapy approach / Linda Stone Fish and Rebecca G. Harvey -- Supporting transgender youth and their families in therapy : facing challenges and harnessing strengths / Deborah Coolhart -- Considerations for assessment and intervention with lesbian and gay adoptive parents and their children / Mark Gianino and Michelle Novelle -- The gay and lesbian stepfamily : past and present research and implications for therapy / Jean Lynch and Kathy McMahon-Klosterman -- Counseling lesbian and gay individuals, couples, and families in late life / John A. Blando -- Helping heterosexual spouses cope when their husbands or wives come out / Carol Grever -- Intercultural issues in LGBTQQ couple and family therapy / Anneliese A. Singh and Amney Harper -- Issues in the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in couple and family therapy / Thomas O. Blank, Marysol Asencio, and Lara Descartes -- Spirituality and religion in same-sex couples' therapy / Sharon Scales Rostosky, Steven D. Johnson and Ellen D.B. Riggle -- Treatment of partner violence in gay and lesbian relationships / Deanna Linville, Krista Chronister, Mary Marsiglio, and Tiffany B. Brown -- Treatment of substance use disorders in LGBT couples and families / Sandra C. Anderson -- LGBT couple enrichment / Shoshana D. Kerewsky -- Therapeutic considerations in same-sex divorce / Kevin P. Lyness -- LGB-affirmative training strategies for couple and family therapist faculty : preparing heterosexual students to work with LGB clients / Thomas Stone Carlson and Christi R. McGeorge -- Queer supervision / Janie K. Long and Jack Grote -- Ethical issues in LGBT couple and family therapy / Damien W. Riggs -- Research on reorientation therapy / Julianne M Serovich, Erika L. Grafsky, and Rashmi Gangamma -- Helping individuals and families recover from sexual orientation change efforts and heterosexism / Jeff Lutes and Marsha McDonough -- A little bit pregnant? : the ethics of same-sex marriage / Corinne Reczek and Esther Rothblum.