Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice by Deana F. Morrow; Lori Messinger

A resource for social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender clients and their families, and among the first to address bisexual and transgender people specifically as well as the wider GLBT community. Contributors offer practical suggestions for knowledge-based and skills-based practice. Topics include heterosexism and homophobia, identity development, coming out, GLBT adolescents and older adults, health care, relationships and families, the workplace, the history of the GLBT civil rights movement, sex reassignment, AIDS and spirituality, along with issues of race, ethnicity, age and socioeconomic status.