Religious Attitudes, Homophobia, and Professional Counseling.
| Autor: | Bowers, Randolph, Minichiello, Victor, Plummer, David |
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COUNSELING
HOMOPHOBIA PSYCHOLOGY of Minorities BISEXUAL people CONSUMER attitudes COUNSELORS GAY men GENDER identity GROUNDED theory HETEROSEXUALS INTERVIEWING LESBIANS MEDICAL education ABSTRACTING & indexing of medical records SENSORY perception POST-traumatic stress disorder PREJUDICES PROFESSIONAL ethics PSYCHOLOGY & religion RESEARCH funding STATISTICAL sampling SEX discrimination SOUND recordings DATA analysis TRANSGENDER people CULTURAL values SOCIAL context CONTINUING education units HUMAN research subjects PATIENT selection EVALUATION PSYCHOLOGY |
| Zdroj: | Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling; Apr-Jun2010, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p70-91, 22p |
| Abstrakt: | During an Australian qualitative and empirical study looking at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender client's experiences of counseling, and counselor's experiences of working with minority clients, a large body of unsolicited data emerged related to experiences of religious-based homophobia. Analysis of the data suggests that a lifelong process of posttraumatic recovery for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people follows prior experiences of religious-based homophobia. This paper discusses the sociological debate related to how counselors find themselves at the crossroad between a healthy lifestyle model of homosexuality based in well established contemporary professional ethics versus long standing religious-based attitudes and constraints toward homosexuality. This intersection of conflicting beliefs generates a controversial social and political environment in which counselors must make a basic decision to either support minority clients according to ethical guidelines or to side with socially conservative constructs that, rightly or wrongly, rely largely on Western religious traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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