Preventing Heterosexism and Bias in Psychotherapy and Counseling

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Sexual minority persons—gay men, lesbians, bisexual men and women, and transgendered people—are estimated to constitute somewhere between 1% and 10% of the adolescent and adult populations, depending on the manner in which this identity is defined and sampled by research. This robust presence in the general population means that the modal psychotherapist will see at least one identified sexual minority client during her or his career (Garnets, Hancock, Cochran, Goodchilds, & Peplau, 1991). Caucasian lesbians in the United States are particularly active consumers of psychotherapy services (Ryan & Bradford, 1993), and anecdotal evidence suggests that Caucasian gay men have similar high rates of utilization. Several commentators (Brown, 1989; Gonsiorek, 1982) ...

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