Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People

Second Edition

Edited by Gerald P. Mallon

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• ISBN: 978-0-7890-3357-4
• Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 19th May 2008
• Pages: 440

About the Book

A new, more comprehensive edition of the classic Social Work text

Although the vast majority of LGBT persons are healthy, resilient, and hardy individuals who do not seek social work intervention, some have been or will be clients in social work agencies. Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, Second Edition, is the updated classic text that has expanded its scope to include new content on practice with bisexual and transgender populations—and incorporated this content throughout. This informative book provides a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working sensitively, competently, and effectively with LGBT individuals.

Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, Second Edition now covers content on LGBT populations as articulated by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Comprehensive and practical, this unique text discusses the pragmatic aspects of social work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. It will improve and reinforce competent practice with LGBT persons and their families in multiple settings.

Chapters in Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, Second Edition, focus on important topics such as:

• the profession’s core values and ethical principles
• identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethically challenging practice problems
• LGBT persons of color—heterosexism, racism, and sexism
• applying the life model and the stress-coping process
• the root of conflicts in allegiances and pressures for unity via homogeneity
• practice with bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons
• sexual conversion therapy
• traditional psychoanalytic notions of lesbian couples
• the impact of sexual abuse on lesbian couples
• internalized homophobia, heterocentrism, and gay identity
• group work practice with the LGBTQ community
• clinical assessment for families where sexual orientation is an issue
• LGBT parenting
• the role of health care
• and many more!

Complete with a highly detailed appendix of symbols, definitions, and terms, Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for social workers and mental health professionals as well as for students and educators at all levels of experience.

Reviews

"Applying the person:environment perspective of Germain throughout, the contributors of these 15 essays help practitioners and practitioners in training to acquire sufficient knowledge to work toward meeting the needs of members of this community. Along with extensive reviews of the literature, contributors offer significant insights into lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lives, including the values and ethics of social work practice with members of the LGBT community and LGBT people of color, social work practices with bisexual peopled and those who are transgender or gender-nonconforming, social work practice with lesbian and gay people, practice with lesbian and gay couples, work with those who are LGBT or questioning, practice within families and with LGBT parents, community practice, LGBT communities and health care, and social work with LGBT people within organizations. This works as a professional reference as well as a classroom text." -- Book News Inc., August 2008

Table of Contents

• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Knowledge for Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Persons (Gerald P. Mallon)
• An Ecological Approach
• Sources of Knowledge
• Personal Experience
• History and Current Events
• The Professional Literature
• Research
• Theoretical and Conceptual Analyses
• Self-Awareness
• Knowledge Derived from the Individual Case
• Conclusion
• Chapter 2. Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons (Peg McCartt Hess and Nancy Feldman)
• The Profession’s Core Values and Ethical Principles: Application in Practice with Lesbian and Gay Clients
• Identifying, Analyzing, and Resolving Ethically Challenging Practice Problems and Dilemmas
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3. Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender Persons of Color: Reconciling Divided Selves and Communities (Karina L. Walters and Roy Old Person)
• Previous Research on Racial Identity, LGBT Identity, and LGBTOC Identity
• Applying the Life Model: The Stress-Coping Process Revisited
• Paradigm of the Stress Process
• Heterosexism, Racism, and Sexism: Creating Conflicts in Allegiances
• The Root of Conflicts in Allegiances: Pressures for Unity via Homogeneity
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4. Social Work Practice with Bisexual Clients (Geordana Weber and Kathy T. Heffern)
• Definition of Bisexuality
• Why Bisexuality Matters to Social Workers
• Myths and Truths About Bisexual People
• Clinical Issues That Arise for Bisexual Clients
• Implications for Social Work Practice
• Chapter 5. Social Work Practice with Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Persons (Carrie Davis)
• A Common Language
• Development
• Transgender-Space
• Institutionally Established Barriers to Care
• Personally Established Barriers
• Intervention
• Chapter 6. Social Work Practice with Lesbian Individuals (S.J. Dodd and Laura Booker)
• Who Are Lesbians?
• Heterocentrism and Homophobia
• Therapeutic Relationship
• Identity Development and Coming Out
• Mental Health
• Substance Abuse
• Trauma
• Health
• Lesbians and Their Families of Origin
• Lesbian Mothers
• Special Populations
• Agency Environment—The Metaphorical “Welcome Mat”
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7. Social Work Practice with Gay Individuals (Michael Shernoff)
• Introduction
• Definition
• Heterosexually Married Homosexually Active Men
• Ethnic and Cultural Diversity
• Rural Gay Men
• Assessment
• Sexual Conversion Therapy
• Mental Health Issues
• Depression and Development Issues
• Developmental Dysynchronicity
• Developmentally Disabled Gay Men
• Chronically Mentally Ill Gay Men
• Substance Abuse
• The Internet
• Domestic Violence
• Antigay Violence
• Aging
• Death and Dying
• AIDS
• Summary
• Appendix
• Chapter 8. Social Work Practice with Lesbian Couples (Laura Booker and Sarah-Jane Dodd)
• Traditional Psychoanalytic Notions of Lesbian Couples
• Feminist Psychology: Debunking Traditional Psychoanalytic Notions of Lesbian Couples
• Triangulation As a Symptom of Fusion
• Development of the Relationship: What Is a Healthy Lesbian Relationship?
• Identity Development and Partnership
• After the U-Haul: Lesbian Bed Death!
• Co-Mothering
• Impact of Sexual Abuse on Lesbian Couples
• Domestic Violence in Lesbian Couples
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9. Social Work Practice with Gay Couples (L. Donald McVinney)
• Internalized Homophobia, Heterocentrism, and Gay Identity
• Coupling Dynamics
• Male Gender Role Socialization
• Joining
• Assessing Presenting Concerns
• Interventions
• Case Illustration
• Implications for Social Work Practice
• Conclusion
• Chapter 10. Group Work Practice with LGBTQ Persons (Mitchell Rosenwald)
• Pers

  About the Author(s)

  Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, is Professor and Executive Director of the National

  Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency

  Planning at the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York City.

  For more than thirty years, Dr.Mallon has been a child welfare practitioner,

  advocate, educator, and researcher. He is the author or editor of eighteen

  books and numerous peer-reviewed publications, most recently Lesbian

  and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents: Recruiting, Assessing, and Supporting

  an Untapped Resource for Children and Youth and ChildWelfare for the

  Twenty-First Century.

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