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Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care is the first textbook in the field to provide an affirming, intersectional, and evidence-informed approach to caring for transgender, non-binary, and/or gender-expansive (TNG) people.
LGBT Health Inequalities: International Perspectives in Social Work by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2015This book examines inequalities experienced by LGBT people and considers the role of social work in addressing them.
Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2012The editors and contributors of this comprehensive text provide a unique and important contribution to LGBT clinical literature. Includes 30 chapters.
Social Work Practice with the LGBTQ Community by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2018Social Work Practice with the LGBTQ Community aims to weave together the realms of sociopolitical, historical, and policy contexts in order to assist readers with understanding the base for effective and affirming health and mental health practice with diverse members of the LGBTQ community.
Relationally Queer by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023Builds upon the work of the world-renowned Pink Therapy books.
Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2019Trans clients are frequently doubted, misunderstood, infantilised and judged by professionals, and this book presents an approach that ensures psychological wellbeing and trust is built between counsellor and client.
Gender without identity by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023Written for readers both in and outside psychoanalysis, Gender Without Identity argues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be spun into gender. Such "spinning" involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy.
Find Articles
The following is a selection of articles available through BU Libraries:
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"Lived Experiences of Parenting Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth: Implications for Clinical Social Work Practice" by Zalia Powell et. al (2024). Available here.
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"Bending gender, ending gender: theoretical foundations for social work practice with the transgender community" by Barb Burdge (2007). Available here and here.
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"Affirmative Practice With Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youth: Expanding the Model" by Laura Edwards-Leeper et. al (2016). Available here.
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"Clinical and Supervisory Considerations for Transgender Therapists: Implications for Working with Clients" by Daran Shipman and Tristan Martin (2019). Available here.
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"Demonstrating LGBTQ+ Affirmative Practice in Groups: Developing Competence through Simulation-Based Learning" by Shelley Craig et. al (2022). Available here.
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"Preparing social workers for practice with LGBT populations affected by substance use: perceptions from students, alumni, and service providers" by Michael Dentato et. al (2018). Available here.
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"Strengths-based behavioral telehealth with sexual and gender diverse clients at Center on Halsted" by Ing Swenson et. al (2021). Available here.
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"An Intersectional Approach to Services and Care for LGBT Elders" by Michael Adams (2016). Available here.
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"Intake Interviewing with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients: Starting from a Place of Affirmation" by Nicholas Heck et. al (2013). Available here.
For the Classroom
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"Queering the Social Work Classroom: Strategies for Increasing the Inclusion of LGBTQ Persons and Experiences" by Alex Wagaman et. al (2018). Available here.
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"Exploring the intersections of LGBTQ experience and social work education: a scoping review" by Gita Mehrotra et. al (2023). Available here.
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"'I Didn't Feel Equipped': Social Work Students' Reflections on a Simulated Client 'Coming Out'" by Carmen Logie et. al (2015). Available here.
