Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health: Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality

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The Pocket Guide for Understanding LGBTQ Mental Health is a manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities: lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, queer people, questioning people, intersex people, asexual people, pansexual people, and allied heterosexuals. The book discusses psychological and cultural contexts and challenges faced by patients and addresses questions that well-meaning people may ask. Contents Contributors Preface: LGBTQ²IAPA 1 Lesbian: The L in LGBTQ²IAPA • Daena L. Petersen, Mary E. Barber, Nix Zelin, Eric Yarbrough 2 Gay: The G in LGBTQ²IAPA • Ahmad A. Mohammad, Eric Yarbrough 3 Bisexual: The B in LGBTQ²IAPA • Sarah Noble 4 Transgender: The T in LGBTQ²IAPA • Murat Altinay 5 Queer: The First Q in LGBTQ²IAPA • Sam Marcus, E.K. Breitkopf 6 Questioning: The Second Q in LGBTQ²IAPA • Mark Joseph Messih 7 Intersex:The I in LGBTQ²IAPA • Adrian Jacques H. Ambrose 8 Asexual: The First A in LGBTQ²IAPA • Selale Gunal, Petros Levounis 9 Pansexual: The P in LGBTQ²IAPA • Victoria Formosa 10 Ally: The Second A in LGBTQ²IAPA • Angeliki Pesiridou, Serena M. Chang Index