By Kathleen J. Bieschke, Ruperto M. Perez, Kurt A. DeBord
Pennsylvania nation Univ., country university. Explores useful ramifications of alterations in pondering relating to potent remedy. issues contain problem of offering affirmative psychotherapy whereas honoring different contexts, identification and improvement within the homosexual male neighborhood, moral mental providers, and extra. For psychotherapists. past version: c2000.
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DEVELOPMENTAL ARENAS Individual developmental trajectories for LGBT people are enacted within a broad array of arenas in which reference-group membership (whether acknowledged and embraced or not) presents a shared, unique set of tasks that need to be negotiated for optimal development to proceed; because these issues are specific to each group, they create between-group differences. Here we offer brief examples of issues unique to each group in the personal arena of health, the interpersonal arena of relationships and families, the social arena of education and work, and the sociopolitical arena of legal issues.
Catholicism in Latin communities, fundamentalist Christianities in African American or Black communities; Davidson, 2000). Much has been written regarding the myriad ways in which religion-based homonegativity, both societal and internalized, compromises the identity development and mental health of some sexual minority individuals. For example, two thirds of the LGB respondents in Schuck and Liddle's (2001) study reported religious conflicts resulting in reactions such as shame, depression, and suicidal ideation, and these conflicts were associated with greater difficulty in coming out and greater diversity in age at coming out.
36 FASSINGER AND A R S K N K A U Interpersonal Arena: Relationships and Families Despite some commonalities in experiences of stigmatization, isolation, and invisibility, there are unique issues faced by each of the four (LGBT) populations in the arena of interpersonal relationships. Same-sex couples and families, for example (regardless of whether the same-sex partners selfidentify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual), face all of the same issues as heterosexual couples and families, but they have to negotiate these relationships within a context of oppression (Patterson, chap.