Developing Successful Sexual Health and Support Services for Bisexual People

Autor:	Julie Ebin, Aimee Van Wagenen
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Gerontology Sexual identity business.industry Identity (social science) Public relations medicine.disease Metropolitan area Mental health Gender Studies Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Community health medicine Psychology business Peer education Reproductive health
Zdroj:	Journal of Bisexuality. 6:165-189
ISSN:	1529-9724 1529-9716
DOI:	10.1300/j159v06n01_09
Popis:	SUMMARY In the last decade and a half in the Boston metropolitan area, community-based approaches have developed to meet the range of mental and general health support needs of bisexual people. We will chronicle some of this history and describe the web of programs and services available in Boston, focusing in particular on the BiHealth program at Fenway Community Health. We believe that BiHealth has been successful at serving bisexual people because of its unique approach to addressing bisexual behavior and identity. This approach is to carefully distinguish and take into consideration sexual behavior, on the one hand, and sexual identity, on the other, and to address them separately or in tandem, as appropriate. This approach includes recognizing and addressing different sub-groups of bisexual people, including self-identified bisexual people, non-identified bisexual people, and bi-curious people in particular. Here we describe the unique broad-based approaches to medical and mental health that BiHealth...
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