This timely and powerful book seeks to fill the training gap in working with LGBTQI clients and their families. Thirty-two captivating case studies examine contemporary issues affecting these populations to assist students, practicing counselors, and other mental health professionals in assessment, treatment planning, and implementation. The emphasis is on what is said and done in actual counseling sessions, including diagnosis; interventions used, treatment goals, and outcomes; transference and countertransference issues; other multicultural considerations; and recommendations for further counseling or training.
Experts in the field address a wide range of issues across the topical areas of individual development, relationship concerns, contextual matters, and wellness. The cases presented include coming out; counseling intersex, bisexual, and transsexual clients; partner and marriage counseling; parenting issues; aging; working with rural clients and African American, Native American, Latino/a, Asian, and multiracial individuals; sexual minority youth; HIV; sexual and drug addictions; people with disabilities; binational couples; work and career; domestic violence; spirituality and religion; sexual issues; and women's health.
Sari H. Dworkin, PhD, MFT, is a professor emerita of California State University, Fresno. She taught in the Marriage and Family master's program for 25 years. Currently she is in a limited private practice, is licensed as a psychologist, and does volunteer counseling and supervision at the Community Counseling Center in San Luis Obispo, California. Her long career has included many publications and presentations on LGBT issues. In addition, she has held positions in both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Counseling Association (ACA) advocating for LGBT issues. Some of these positions include president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (APA Division 44), co-chair of the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ACA), and chair of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns (APA). APA's Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns presented its 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award to Dr. Dworkin. In 2007 she was elected as an inaugural Association for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Counseling Legacy Fellow.
Mark Pope, EdD, NCC, MCC, MAC, ACS, was professor and chair of the Division of Counseling and Family Therapy at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. He was the author of 6 books, more than 30 book chapters, more than 40 journal articles, and more than 100 professional presentations at the international, national, and state levels. Dr. Pope wrote extensively on various aspects of counseling, including counseling with and the career development of ethnic, racial, and sexual minorities; violence in schools; teaching career and multicultural competence in counseling; psychological testing; international issues in counseling, and the history of and public policy issues in career counseling. His work has appeared as books, as conference presentations, and in such journals as the Journal of Homosexuality, the Journal of Lesbian and Gay Social Services, the Journal of Counseling & Development, The Career Development Quarterly, The Counseling Psychologist, The Family Journal, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and American Psychologist. Dr. Pope served as president of the American Counseling Association; the National Career Development Association; the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling; and the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (APA Division 44). He was elected a Fellow of the American Counseling Association; American Psychological Association; National Career Development Association; Society of Counseling Psychology; Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues; and Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues. He also served as the editor of The Career Development Quarterly, on the editorial boards of several other professional journal, as well as as the Director of Psychological Services for the American Indian AIDS Institute and the Native American AIDS Project in San Francisco.
Dr. Pope passed away in January 2023.
