Product Description

Pink Therapy is the first British guide for counsellors and therapists working with people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. It provides a much needed overview of lesbian, gay and bisexual psychology, and examines some of the differences between lesbians, gays and bisexuals, and heterosexuals. Pink Therapy proposes a model of gay affirmative therapy, which challenges the prevailing pathologizing models.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110155 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 246 pages

Review
"...a well-informed and well-researched book aimed at practitioners, both straight and gay...essential reading for any counsellor who is likely to come across non-heterosexual clients." - Gay Times "...a major achievement. It will certainlyinform my work as a researcher, trainer and teacher strongly - I wantto recommend it wholeheartedly." - British Journal of Educational Psychology "...essential reading if you seekto be informed on the issues." - Royal Navy Chaplains Book "...the most useful and significant contribution to theissues of counselling lesbians and gay men since Jack Babuscio's We Speak for Ourselves (1977)...essential reading for all who seek to provide an equal and appropriate service to lesbians and gay men." - Probation Journal "I found all chapters easy to read, and certainly challenging in many areas, which indicates it is also a necessaryand appropriate text for those who choose to identify themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual therapists, as well as those who may work withclients from these groups." - Counselling "The enormous strength of this book lies in its presentation of a range of theories and models relating to sexuality, backed up throughout by illustrations and case studies from real lives."- Young People Now"For all professionals, counsellors and therapists, working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients Pink Therapy is a must." - ALGP Europe Newsletter "...constitutes a welcome resource to working with the practicalities of a politically andculturally very complex agenda." - New Controversial Discussions "For too long I have relied on 'learning from the client'. No longer!...I now have recourse to a collection of readings backed up by academic references, and added to by further directions to pursue." - Relate News "...essential reading for all counsellors." - BritishJournal of Guidance & Counselling

About the Author
The Editor

Dominic Davies has a wide experience of 'people work' in the statutory and voluntary sectors. He has worked in Residential Social Work; University Counselling; and HIV/AIDS and Sexuality Training. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Counselling at Nottingham Trent University. He holds a Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy, is a BAC Accredited Counsellor and a member of the Steering Group for the Association for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies.

Charles Neal is a therapist, trainer, educator and gay father with 25 years' experience working towards empowerment with people of all ages at points of change. He specialises in gay affirmative therapy and working with artists and performers and is founding chair of the Association for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies in the UK. A graduate of Spectrum's humanistic training, he has a lifelong involvement in analytic, integrative and humanistic therapies.

Customer Reviews

Excellent starting point and reference guide
Pink Therapy is an excellent introduction to working with clients who are gay, lesbian or bisexual. I would thoroughly recommend it to any therapist who would like to know more about sexuality, sexual identity, coming out and/or gay & lesbian culture. Divided into 13 easy-to-read chapters such as "Toward a model of gay affirmative therapy", "Working with people coming out", "Working with young people", and "Partner abuse", the book provides a fairly comprehensive resource for those with little or no previous experience of working with clients from sexual minorities. I would also recommend this book as one of the only reference guides to be largely written by gay, lesbian and bisexual therapists about gay, lesbian and bisexual clients for (mostly) heterosexual counsellors. Intended primarily for counsellors, Pink Therapy can function as a solid introduction for anyone working in helping relationships with clients from oppressed groups. Counselling Supervision in Context, edited by Michael Carroll and Elizabeth Holloway includes an intelligent chapter specifically about working with sexuality, heterosexism and homophobia in counselling supervision, a subject dealt with only briefly in Pink Therapy.