LGBT Psychology and Mental Health

Emerging Research and Advances

Richard Ruth Ph.D., Erik Santacruz Ed.D., Richard Ruth Ph.D., Erik Santacruz Ed.D.

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9798216110743
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This cutting-edge guide spotlights some of the most exciting emerging discoveries, trends, and research areas in LGBT psychology, both in science and therapy. LGBT Psychology and Mental Health: Emerging Research and Advances brings together concise, substantive reviews of what is new or on the horizon in science and in key areas of clinical practice. It will equip professionals at institutions with mental health programs that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues with information and insight to help psychologists, mental health clinicians, and counselors better serve the LGBT populations that, increasingly, are seeking their services. The book begins with introductory chapters that present an overview of the field, chronicle the relationship between the LGBT community and the field of psychology in past decades, and identify emerging issues covered in the volume. It then addresses subjects such as social psychology and LGBT populations, health disparities and LGBT populations, the evolution of developmental theory related to the LBGT populations, emerging policy issues in LGBT health and psychology, and recent efforts to make the field of psychology more trans-inclusive and affirmative. Chapters are also dedicated to examining contemporary, LGBT-affirmative psychoanalysis and treating addictions and substance abuse in the LGBT community. The book concludes with chapters that address how the concept of intersectionality can serve as a way to better understand LGBT members who possess multiple cultural identities and the unique stressors they experience in daily life. The final chapter summarizes issues that bridge the contributions provided by the authors, and it highlights current issues of focal concern in order to project future directions for the field of LGBT psychology in the next two decades.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Foreword
• 1 Introduction: Why This Book and What You Can Expect
• 2 New Developments in LGBT Development: What’s New and What’s (Still) True
• 3 Making Psychology Trans-Inclusive and Trans-Affirmative: Recommendations for Research and Practice
• 4 How Contemporary Psychoanalysis Contributes to LGBT Psychology: Examining and Addressing Gender Fluidity and Diversity as We Slide toward 21st-Century Transformations
• 5 LGBT Psychology and Ethnic Minority Perspectives: Intersectionality
• 6 Intersectional Feminism and LGBTIQQA+ Psychology: Understanding Our Present by Exploring Our Past
• 7 Caught at the Intersections: Microaggressions toward Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People of Color
• 8 Addictions and Substance Abuse in the LGBT Community: New Approaches
• 9 Health Disparities and LGBT Populations
• 10 Challenges in Moving toward the Resolution, Reduction, and Elimination of Health Disparities for LGBT Populations
• 11 LGBT Health and LGBT Psychology: Emerging Policy Issues
• 12 Quality and Equality: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Program to Develop Agents of Change in LGBT Health
• 13 Going Forward: Summary and New Directions
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• About the Practical and Applied Psychology Series and Series Editor
• Index