Product Description: Take your knowledge of the mental health issues that affect LGBT people to the next level!The Handbook of LGBT Issues in Community Mental Health provides reliable, up-to-date information on clinical issues, administrative practices, and health concerns related to the provision of public sector mental health services to LGBT people...read more

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Product Description: Making the decision to seek psychotherapy is a challenging one, but for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, or transgendered persons the challenge is double. Michael Bettinger, a psychotherapist practicing in San Francisco, lays out a comprehensive guide to the process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "A diverse and extremely useful set of chapters at the cutting edge of thinking on work with sexual minorities...An important and too often neglected aspect of therapist's and counsellor's training which this book does much to correct...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"Pink therapy" is the first British guide to counsellors and therapists working with people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. it provides a much needed overview of lesbian, gay and bisexual psychology, and examines some of the differences between lesbians, gays and bisexuals, and heterosexuals. "Pink therapy" proposes a model of gay affirmative therapy, which challenges the prevailing pathologizing models. It will help to provide answers to pressing questions such as: what is different about lesbian, gay and bisexual psychologies? how can I improve my work with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients? what are the key clinical that this work raises? The contributors draw on their wide range of practical experience to provide - in an accessible style - information about the contemporary experience of living as a lesbian, gay or bisexual person, and to explore some of the common difficulties. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health brings together in one volume the entire range of material and variety of perspectives concerning homosexuality and mental health. With more than 50 chapters written by leaders in the field, this book is the most complete review of the topics of homosexuality and mental health and treatment of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals to date...read more