Not Just a Passing Phase: Social Work with Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
This comprehensive textbook helps social workers understand and meet the needs of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. It outlines approaches to a range of everyday problems associated with issues of oppression, family acceptance, shame, identity development, HIV disease, and addiction.\ The first of the book's three sections provides an overview of what it means to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and locates the text within the ecological model of social work on individual, interpersonal, and...
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This comprehensive textbook helps social workers understand and meet the needs of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. It outlines approaches to a range of everyday problems associated with oppression, family acceptance, shame, identity development, HIV disease, addiction, and more. Barbara W. Gerber An excellent text and reference work. . . . . It can stand alone as an excellent sourcebook for many people.
PrefacePt. 1Context, Definitions, and Community: An Overview11Homophobia and Heterosexism: Understanding the Context of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Lives32Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identities: Definitions and Dilemmas453Culture, Community, and Diversity77Pt. 2Life Transitions1214Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Orientation in Childhood and Adolescence1235Between Men, Between Women: Sexual and Intimate Relationships1456Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Parents and Their Children1777Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People in the World of Work2138Middle-Aged and Old Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Adults245Pt. 3Special Issues2699Mental Health and Substance Abuse27110Violence in the Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men30111HIV Disease: A Social Work Response337Pt. 4Conclusion38112Affirming Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Lives383App. 1: Resources411App. 2: Exercises for the Classroom417Notes437References441Index479
\ Lesbian Review of BooksAn excellent text and reference work..... It can stand alone as an excellent sourcebook for many people.\ — Barbara W. Gerber\ \ \ \ \ \ AffiliaA wonderful addition to the professional's library, and, as many of my master's level students can attest, it provides an excellent, in-depth scholarly coverage of a topic that has been long overlooked.... A rich concoction of thoughtful scholarship and thoughtful analysis.\ \ \ \ Lesbian Review of BooksAn excellent text and reference work..... It can stand alone as an excellent sourcebook for many people.\ \ \ \ \ \ Barbara W. GerberAn excellent text and reference work. . . . . It can stand alone as an excellent sourcebook for many people.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsThis text is designed to prepare social workers to better assess the concerns, problems, and issues presented by gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients and their families. The authors survey current scholarship, providing a foundation for the subject. Then they address the special needs of gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents as well as as older people, and discuss important issues such as HIV and AIDS, violence, and mental health. Paper edition (10323-9), $21.50. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
