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Author Skinta, Matthew D

Title Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities : a Clinician's Guide to Fostering Compassion, Connection, and Equality Using Contextual Strategies
Published Reno : New Harbinger Publications, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages)
Series The Context Press Mindfulness and Acceptance Practica Series
Context Press Mindfulness and Acceptance Practica Series.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; Mindfulness and Acceptance for Coming Out and Shame; Chapter 1; Self and Perspective Taking for Sexual Minorities in a Heteronormative World; Chapter 2; Using ACT Interventions to Help Clients Explore the Possibilities of Gender Identity; Chapter 3; Coming Out with Compassion; Chapter 4; CompassionƯFocused Therapy in the Treatment of ShameƯBased Difficulties in Gender and Sexual Minorities; Chapter 5; Mindfulness and Acceptance for Malignant Shame; Chapter 6; Treating Disordered Eating in Gay Men and Other GSM Clients Using DBT and ACT; Part II
Building and Rebuilding RelationshipsChapter 7; Healing the Wounds of Rejection: Deepening Vulnerability and Intimacy with Functional Analytic Psychotherapy; Chapter 8; Elephants in the Room: Straight Therapists' Microaggressions with GSM Couples; Chapter 9; Starting a Family: SameƯSex Parenting; Chapter 10; Religion, Spirituality, and Gender and Sexual Minorities: What Clinicians Need to Know; Chapter 11; Minority Stress and Resilience; Part III; Life in Context: Challenges in the World; Chapter 12; The Lasting Impact of HIV/AIDS; Chapter 13
Doubly Disenfranchised: An AcceptanceƯ and CompassionƯBased Approach to Being a Minority Within GSM CommunitiesChapter 14; Flexible Organizations: Creating a Healthy and Productive Context for GSM Employees; Chapter 15; Queering the Globe: Promoting Equality, Connection, and Community; Index
Summary As more clinicians train in mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies, the demand for skills specifically for treating diverse clients grows. In this much-needed edited volume-with chapters on stigma, shame, relationships, and parenting-clinicians will discover evidence-based and best-practice behavioral, mindfulness, and acceptance-based strategies for treating gender and sexual minorities for better outcomes
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Subject Sex (Psychology)
Gender identity -- Psychological aspects
Sexual minorities -- Psychological aspects
Gender identity
Sex (Psychology)
Form Electronic book
Author Curtin, Aisling
Pachankis, John
ISBN 9781626254299
162625429X