Synopses & Reviews
A new, more comprehensive edition of the classic Social Work text
Although the vast majority of LGBT persons are healthy, resilient, and hardy individuals who do not seek social work intervention, some have been or will be clients in social work agencies. Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People is the updated classic text that has expanded its scope to include new content on practice with bisexual and transgender populations?and incorporated this content throughout. This informative book provides a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working sensitively, competently, and effectively with LGBT individuals.
The text now covers content on LGBT populations as articulated by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Comprehensive and practical, this unique text discusses the pragmatic aspects of social work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. It will improve and reinforce competent practice with LGBT persons and their families in multiple settings. Chapters focus on important topics such as:
- the profession's core values and ethical principles
- identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethically challenging practice problems
- LGBT persons of color?heterosexism, racism, and sexism
- applying the life model and the stress-coping process
- the root of conflicts in allegiances and pressures for unity via homogeneity
- practice with bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons
- sexual conversion therapy
- traditional psychoanalytic notions of lesbian couples
- the impact of sexual abuse on lesbian couples
- internalized homophobia, heterocentrism, and gay identity
- group work practice with the LGBTQ community
- clinical assessment for families where sexual orientation is an issue
- LGBT parenting
- the role of health care
- and many more
Complete with a highly detailed appendix of symbols, definitions, and terms, Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People, is an invaluable resource for social workers and mental health professionals as well as for students and educators at all levels of experience.
Review
andldquo;Committed to health equity and human rights, this valuable book offers important theoretical and practical insights to improve LGBT wellbeing across the lifecourse, from early childhood to end-of-life care, and does so cognizant of commingled inequitable power relations involving sexuality, class, race/ethnicity, and gender, within and between nations.andrdquo;
Review
andldquo;An important and innovative addition to the growing research on LGBT health disparities. The book provides both a social work and an international perspective to a field typically dominated by US-based public health research.andrdquo;
Review
andldquo;An important contribution to the knowledge needed by those on social work services to understand the complex matrix not only of the persistent discrimination experienced by LGBT people but the health inequalities they encounter on their journeys through life.andrdquo;
Review
andldquo;This original book gives a much-needed focus on the role of social work in addressing LGBT health inequalities. It makes a vital and necessary contribution towards promoting equality for LGBT people.andrdquo;
Synopsis
This updated classic text provides a knowledge base of practice that will better prepare students and practitioners for working sensitively, competently, and effectively with LGBT individuals in social work situations.
Synopsis
Rev. ed. of: Foundations of social work practice with lesbian and gay persons.
Synopsis
This pioneering study examines inequalities experienced by LGBT people in health care and considers the role of social work in addressing the inequity. The book is organized into three parts: the first provides a policy context in four countries, the second examines social work practice in tackling health inequalities, and the third considers research and pedagogic developments. The volumeand#8217;s distinctive international approach features practice vignettes as well as key theoretical perspectives on the components of health inequalities, including social determinants of health, minority stress, ecological approaches, and human rights. With a preface from Gary Bailey, president of the International Federation of Social Workers, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Health Inequalities will be relevant to an interdisciplinary, international audience of social work educators, practitioners, and students.
About the Author
Julie Fish is a reader in social work and health inequalities at De Montfort University, UK. She is the author of Heterosexism in Health and Social Care.Kate Karban is a senior lecturer in social work at the University of Bradford, UK.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Gary Bailey
Introduction: social workandrsquo;s contribution to tackling lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans health inequalities ~Julie Fish and Kate Karban
Part One: Key issues in social work with LGBT people
Much to be desired: LGBT health inequalities and inequities in Canada ~ Nick J. Mulandeacute;
Between public neglect and private needs: conceptualising approaches to LGBT issues in Italian social work ~ Andrea Nagy and Urban Nothdurfter
Queering the pitch: a need for mainstreaming LGBTQ issues in professional social work education and practice in India ~ Ketki Ranade
Life in the Pink Dragonandrsquo;s Den: mental health services and social inclusion for LGBT people in Wales ~ Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett, Michele Raithby and Paul Willis
Part Two: Service design and practice development
Coming into view? The experiences of LGBT young people in the care system in Northern Ireland ~ Nicola Carr and John Pinkerton
Social services for LGBT young people in the United States: are we there yet? ~ Elizabeth A. Winter, Diane E. Elze, Susan Saltzburg and Mitchell Rosenwald
Unique experiences and needs of LGBT older people: one community in rural California responds ~ Elizabeth Breshears and Valerie Lester Leyva
Good practice in health and social care provision for LGBT older people in the UK ~ Sue Westwood, Andrew King, Kathryn Almack, Yiu-Tung Suen and Louis Bailey
A theoretical model for intervening in complex sexual behaviours: sexual desires, pleasures and passion andndash; La Pasiandoacute;n andndash; of Spanish-speaking gay men in Canada ~ Gerardo Betancourt
Research and policy about end of life care for LGBT people in the UK ~ Kathryn Almack, Tes Smith and Bridget Moss
LGBT asylum seekers and health inequalities in the UK ~ Kate Karban and Ala Sirriyeh
Part Three: Social work education and research
Pedagogy for unpacking heterosexist and cisgender bias in social work education in the United States ~ Susan Saltzburg
Maximising research outcomes for trans children and their families in Canada using social action and other participatory methods of inquiry ~ Annie Pullen Sansfaandccedil;on and Kimberley Ens Manning
Mental health inequalities among LGBT older people in the United States: curricula developments ~ Valerie Lester Leyva
Strategies for maximising participation from LGB people in internet surveying in the United States ~ Andy Dunlap
Gay and bisexual men raped by men: an invisible group in social work in Sweden ~ Hans Knutagandaring;rd
Queering social work methods in health disparities and health promotion in the United States ~ Tyler M. Arganduuml;ello
Conclusion ~ Kate Karban and Julie Fish.