Psychotherapy with Lesbians

Riddle, Dorothy I.; Sang, Barbara E.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1978.tb02616.x

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“…Those lesbian couples have numerous issues besides career choice to consider, including (a) how to present the relationship, (b) how to introduce one's partner, (c) how to openly acknowledge the relationship, if at all, and (d) how to deal with social events. Riddle and Sang (1978) noted the stress that lesbian couples experience from homophobia in the workplace. Fears about losing jobs or alienation from colleagues because of their lesbianism often have to be dealt within lesbian couples' relationships.…”

Section: Dual-career Issues For Lesbiansmentioning

confidence: 97%

Career Counseling and Life Planning With Lesbian Women

Hetherington¹,

Orzek

1989

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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The psychological development and "coming out" process of lesbian women are examined with regard to career planning. The interaction of these issues with a model of lesbian identity provides a framework for career counselors who work with individuals or lesbian couples. F reud contended that the basic requirements of human existence are love and work. For women who are blending a lesbian life-style and a career, there are particular considerations that need to be examined before these requirements can be met. Both the "coming out" process and career planning entail various stages, neither of which follows a precise timetable for duration or age appropriateness. As they proceed through the career decision-making process, lesbian women may be influenced by different environmental, social, and intrapsychic factors than are heterosexual women. The purpose of this article is to examine how the psychological development and "coming out" process of lesbian women affect their career choices. The issues of dual careers and the implications of these concerns for counselors will also be discussed.Despite the stereotypes held by the general public concerning vocational choices of lesbian women, few empirical studies have focused on their career decision-making process. Etringer, Hetherington, and Hillerbrand (in press) surveyed lesbian, gay, and heterosexual college students on career decision making. Lesbian women showed the least amount of uncertainty, but lesbian women and heterosexual men were the most satisfied with their career choices. The reality of earning a living may be more apparent to lesbian women than to heterosexual women in college; thus, without the benefit of a possible male wage earner, lesbian women must be more seriously committed to work. Lesbian women may need to be more aware of their earning power than are heterosexual women, because it is likely that they will support themselves alone or with another woman. They will be unable to rely on the earning power of a man and men, on the average, earn 64% more than women do. In a study conducted by Sang (1977), those women who identified themselves as lesbians in adulthood assumed that they would be self-supporting from an early age. As a result, they may have chosen male-dominated careers in order to be more self-supportive.

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Section: Dual-career Issues For Lesbiansmentioning

confidence: 97%

Career Counseling and Life Planning With Lesbian Women

Hetherington¹,

Orzek

1989

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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“…Negative attitudes and behaviors of mental health professionals regarding sexual minorities are well documented (Casas, Brady, & Ponterotto, 1983;DeCrescenzo, 1984;Fort, Steiner, & Conrad, 1971;Garfinkle & Morin, 1978;Garnets et al, 1991;Gartrell, Kramer, & Brodie, 1974;Graham, Rawlings, Halpem, & Hermes, 1984;Messing, Schoenberg, & Stephens, 1984;Morin, 1977;NASW National Committee on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues, 2000;Riddle & Sang, 1978;Winsniewski & Toomey, 1987). Since sexual minority mental health professionals also experience this kind of discrimination in the workplace (Messinger & Topal, 1997), this phenomenon applies to the supervisory relationship as well (Halpert & Pfaller, 2001).…”

Section: Oppression and Supervisionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Sexual Minority Supervision

Satterly

Dyson

2008

The Clinical Supervisor

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Although there are an ever-growing number of sexual minority therapists, many are supervised by heterosexual supervisors who are not knowledgeable about sexual minority issues, which impact the sexual minority therapist and her/his interactions with their clients (Halpert & Pfaller, 2001;Pfohl, 2004). In light of this, the authors designed a qualitative inquiry based in a one-semester sexual minority supervision group. Participants included self-identified sexual minority human service professionals in graduate school. Themes that emerged in the group involved professional and community identities, self-disclosure, organizational culture, and the role of advocacy and fighting oppression. The benefits of such supervision and the subsequent implications of this research will be discussed.

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“…‫ؠ‬ Management of external pull to disclose from clients: The therapist's internal and external efforts to contend with client's verbal utterances or behaviors that attempts to elicit therapist disclosure. • Sexual identity development: Rooted in the theories of gay identity development, this lens generates the concept that TSD decreases feelings of aloneness, increases feelings of hope (Mathews, 1988), and supports normalization (Chelune, 1979;Knox et al, 1997;Riddle & Sang, 1978). The sub-themes include: ‫ؠ‬ Identity synthesis: The process of subsuming a particular identity into a larger context of self (Cass, 1979).…”

Section: Six-lens Reflective Matrixmentioning

confidence: 97%