Product Description

Many readers of Pink Therapy (1996 Open University Press) found the affirmative approaches and detailed discussions there of numerous issues of particular concern to lesbian, gay and bisexual clients invaluable. This volume has twelve further areas discussed in clear and informative style by practitioners from their own professional experience and offers guidelines for good practice as well as full references and further resources. With Pink Therapy and Therapeutic Perspectives on Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients, from the same editors and publishers, professionals interested in treating clients from these minorities equitably will find a wealth of support, information and guidance not previously readily available.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #405779 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 202 pages

About the Author
Charles Neal is a UKCP accredited humanistic and integrative therapist, a trainer, supervisor and group worker; Founder of the Association for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies; poet, writer and photographer; leads gay men's groups and creativity groups; Director of Transform Consultancy, London.

Dominic Davies is a BAC accredited counsellor and therapist practising in the person-centred approach. He is a Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Trent University and a former Chair of the Association for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies. Dominic runs an international training consultancy specialising in sexuality issues in Europe and Australasia. He is also in private practice in London as a therapist and supervisor.

Dominic Davies and Charles Neal are editors of Pink Therapy: A guide for counsellors working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients (1996) and Therapeutic Perspectives on working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients (2000), both published by Open University Press.

Customer Reviews

Essential reading for practitioners and trainees.
This book takes the reader inside the multiple worlds of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and examines the different kinds of 'problems in living' that can confront counsellors working with clients from these groups. the book is humanisctis, in the broad sense of representing and reinforcing the human capacity to relate, to choose, and to live in accordance with values. Issues are ecplored through the unfolding of personal and interpersonal dilemmas. 'Issues in Therapy' is a welcome addition to the 'Pink Therapy' series edited by Dominic Davcies and Charles Neal; they are essential reading for practitioners and trainees.