Nichols Margaret. The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients: The Inclusive Psychotherapist

Routledge, 2021. — 353 p. — ISBN 978- 0- 367- 07730- 3.The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is a ground-breaking resource for therapists working with LGBTQ+ clients whose identity expressions span all gender-, sex-, and relationship-diverse groups. Combining the author’s extensive clinical experience with contemporary evidence-based research, the chapters of this book explore the origins and development of sexual minority groups, going beyond lesbian women and gay men to include transgender and gender nonbinary people, kink and polyamory, bisexuality and pansexuality, and those who identify as asexual or aromantic. The text also offers in-depth coverage of clinical work with transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary clients of all ages. With a wealth of therapeutic strategies and case studies, this resource helps professionals respond to this ‘Big Tent’ community in an informed and empathetic way. Spanning sexuality, gender, relationships and age groups, The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is an invaluable reference for psychotherapists in a broad range of clinical settings.Introduction: Grad School Didn’t Prepare You for This
From Bad to Mad to Civil Rights: A History of Deviance and Acceptance of Same-Sex Attracted People
The Roads Converge Again: How the ‘T’ Got Added to the LGB
The ‘Big Tent’ and Intersectionality
Exactly What Are We Studying, Anyway, and What Does It Mean?
Who Is Gay?
The Twentieth-century Gay and Lesbian Client
Today’s Gay or Lesbian Client
Issues of Gay Men and Boys
Gay Male Couples
Counseling Lesbian Women
Lesbian Couples
Bi Any Other Name: Science Grapples with Multiple Gender Attractions
Clinical Issues of Bisexually Identified Clients
‘Aces and Aros’: Asexuals, Aromantics, and Other Variations on a Theme
Pansexuals, Mono vs. Multisexuals, and Sexual Fluidity
From Two Genders to Many
Working with Adult Transgender Clients
Working with the Transgender Adolescent
The Gender-expansive Child
Nonbinary Identities and Gender Fluidity
BDSM Comes Out of the Shadows
Working with Kinky Clients
Introduction to Consensual Nonmonogamy
Working with Clients Who Are Nonmonogamous: And Those Who Want to Be
Conclusion: The Tangled Path Forward