LGBT Psychology and Mental Health: Emerging Research and Advances

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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.

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[T]he goals of this collection of essays: give the underrepresented and underexplored LGBT voice and breadth within psychology and mental health. Topics mindfully explored include trans-inclusiveness and trans-affirmation, gender fluidity, diversity, intersectionality, LGBT people of color and microaggressions, new addiction and substance abuse treatment methods, topics in health disparities, emerging health policies, and a chapter on a health graduate program curriculum that examines culturally competent health care to combat LGBT health disparities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. * Choice *
LGBT Psychology and Mental Health: Emerging Research and Advances is a master class in scientific evidence and a call to action for systemic change. This gathering of diverse voices of scholars and clinicians sings a chorus of facts and findings that takes distal theoretical concepts and actualizes them into measurable traits and actionable steps. * Psychiatry *

Author Bio

Richard Ruth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist, and family therapist, as well as associate professor of clinical psychology and director of training at The George Washington University PsyD program. Erik Santacruz, EdD, M.Psy, is a clinical psychologist in training at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he works with children, adolescents, and young adults infected with HIV perinatally.