Therapeutic Perspectives on Working With Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients by Dominic Davies; Charles Neal

Addresses working with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients from 10 major therapeutic perspectives. Each approach is discussed with regard to its historical and theoretical relationship to these client groups and how the approach can be beneficial or negative. Guidelines for using the perspective supportively or practically are given. Davies is a therapist and visiting fellow at Nottingham Trent University.

Contents:

Analytical psychology - Deirdre Haslam
Cognitive-behavioural therapy - James Gray
Existential-phenomenlogical therapy - Martin Milton
Gay, lesbian and bisexual therapy and its supervision - James Pett
Neuro-linguistic psychotherapy - Denis Bridoux and Martin Weaver
Person-centred therapy - Dominic Davies
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy - Susannah Izzard
Psychosynthesis - Keith Silvester
Social constructionist and systemic therapy - Gail Simon and Gwyn Whitfield
Transactional Analysis - Graham Perlman