Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists

Joan Laird and Robert–Jay Green have gathered a distinguished panel of practitioners to create this comprehensive collection.The contributors address the experiences of lesbians and gay men as couples and as parents?and examine their relationships with the families in which they were raised. With a wealth of fascinating research and case examples, as well as recommAndations and suggestions for working with gay couples and families, this book is an excellent resource for clinicians.

Spis treści:
Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: Central Issues.
PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL, AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS.
Transgenerational Homophobia in the Family: A Personal Narrative (M. English).
Connections: Conversations Between a Gay Therapist and a Straight Therapist (S. Siegel & G. Walker).
Social Policy as a Context for Lesbian and Gay Families: The Political is Personal (A. Hartman).
FAMILIES OF ORIGIN.
Invisible Ties: Lesbians and Their Families of Origin (J. Laird).
Coming Out and the Mother–Daughter Bond: Two Case Examples (S. Iasenza, et al.).
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Asian Americans and Their Families (P. Liu & C. Chan).
Self–Labeling and Disclosure Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth (R. Savin–Williams).
LESBIAN AND GAY COUPLES.
Are Lesbian Couples Fused and Gay Male Couples Disengaged?: Questioning GAnder Straightjackets (R. Green, et al.).
Creating and Maintaining Boundaries in Male Couples (T. Johnson & M. Keren).
African American Lesbians: Issues in Couples Therapy (B. Greene & N. Boyd–Franklin).
Gender Roles Among Latino Gay and Bisexual Men: Implications for Family and Couple Relationships (E. Morales).
Lesbian Couples and Childhood Trauma: Guidelines for Therapists (S. Kerewsky & D. Miller).
Assessing Heterosexist Bias in the Treatment of Lesbian Couples with Chemical Dependency (S. Anderson).
LESBIAN AND GAY PARENTS.
Two Moms: Contrib ution of the Planned Lesbian Family to the Deconstruction of GAndered Parenting (V. Mitchell).
Lesbians Choosing Children: Creating Families, Creating Narratives (C. Muzio).
Working with Gay Fathers: Developmental Postdivorce Parenting and Therapeutic Issues (J. Bigner).
Families Coping with HIV Disease in Gay Fathers: Dimensions of Treatment (S. Shuster).
Lesbian Mothers and Their Children: Findings from the Bay Area Families Study (C. Patterson).

Nota biograficzna:
JOAN LAIRD is professor of social work at the Smith College School for Social Work, where she is chair of the Human Behavior in the Social Environment sequence. She is a co–founder of and for many years was on the staff of Ann Arbor Center for the Family, a family therapy clinical, training, and research institute. Co–author with Ann Hartman of Family–Centered Social Work Practice, she has written and presented widely on women′s stories, rituals, and secrets. Her most recent book is titled Revisioning Social Work Education: A Social Constructionist Approach. In the last few years, her scholarship has focused on lesbian families. ROBERT–JAY GREEN is professor and coordinator of Family–Child Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda. He has published widely in the field of family therapy, including two co–authored books, Family Therapy: Major Contributions (1981) and Voices of Women Family Therapists (in press). Dr. Green is on the board of directors of the American Family Therapy Academy, is a fellow of APA and AAMFT, and serves on the editorial boards of Family Process, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy and Cultural Diversity and Mental Health.

Okładka tylna:
Joan Laird and Robert–Jay Green have gathered a distinguished panel of practitioners to create this comprehensive collection.The contributors address the experiences of lesbians and gay men as couples and as parents?and examine their relationships with the families in which they were raised. With a wealth of fascinating research and case examples, as well as recommAndations and suggestions for working with gay couples and families, this book is an excellent resource for clinicians.