Relate to Others with Confidence
A Guidebook for LGBTQIA+ People and Those with a Different Label or No Label
Published on 20. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-1-5381-9044-9 (ISBN)
Description
This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe, collaborative, and peaceful coexistence with our diverse, pluralistic cultures.
The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks, Feel Secure in Yourself and Relate to Others with Confidence, and twelve e-resources self-published by each set of chapter coauthors. The chapter coauthors are scholars, clinicians, and/or community leaders, with differing and sometimes politically opposing viewpoints. They collaborated to find common ground, reduce prejudice, and improve LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a wide range of readers.
These self-help resources are written for the general public and can be used by academics, clinicians, researchers, religious leaders, parents, and other providers who want to learn updated and integrated ideas and skills about sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity, faith and purpose of life, emotional health, resilience, and relationships. This book project is a social experiment of bridge-building and hope to empower readers with identity and skill development and to reduce the side-taking that impairs growth.
The LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project offers two guidebooks, Feel Secure in Yourself and Relate to Others with Confidence, and twelve e-resources self-published by each set of chapter coauthors. The chapter coauthors are scholars, clinicians, and/or community leaders, with differing and sometimes politically opposing viewpoints. They collaborated to find common ground, reduce prejudice, and improve LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a wide range of readers.
These self-help resources are written for the general public and can be used by academics, clinicians, researchers, religious leaders, parents, and other providers who want to learn updated and integrated ideas and skills about sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity, faith and purpose of life, emotional health, resilience, and relationships. This book project is a social experiment of bridge-building and hope to empower readers with identity and skill development and to reduce the side-taking that impairs growth.
Reviews / Votes
Relate to Others with Confidence: A Guidebook for LGBTQIA+ People and Those with a Different Label or No Label is both a probiotic and prebiotic for the LGBTQIA+ soul; its main focus is on finding powerful ways for our community to flourish that are often missing in the traditional 'diet' of existing literature. It takes the conversation about the lived experience and, most importantly, the unique needs of individuals within our community to new heights in an easily digestible and actionable way. -- El McCabe, president-elect of APA Division 44, Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity A much-needed and outstanding resource to meet the clinical needs of sexually- and gender-diverse individuals. Brilliant! -- Eli Coleman, professor emeritus, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical SchoolMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 BW Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-9044-9 (9781538190449)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
About the Editors
A. Lee Beckstead (he/him), PhD, is white-Peruvian, gay, cisgender, currently nondisabled, and spiritual; was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and has been in a primary relationship with a man since 1997. He has been a psychologist in private practice since 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He provides weekend retreats for male survivors of sexual abuse (MenHealing.org) and he is part of a diverse research team studying the health and satisfaction of individuals who are single and celibate or noncelibate or in a same-gender/queer or mixed-orientation relationship.
Jacks Cheng, PhD, EdM, (ta, he, they) is a queer migrant of Taiwanese heritage to Canada and the U.S. Ta works as supervising psychologist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Ta is also the 2023 Chair of the Committee on Early Career Psychologists of the American Psychological Association.
Sulaimon Giwa, PhD, (he/him/his) is an associate professor and interim dean of social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. Sulaimon is a scholar-activist who self-identifies as Black, Muslim, and gay. He authored the 2022 book, Racism and Gay Men of Color: Living and Coping with Discrimination.
Mark A. Yarhouse, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in conflicts tied to religious identity and sexual and gender identity. He is the Dr. Arthur P. and Mrs. Jean May Rech Chair in Psychology at Wheaton College, where he runs the Sexual and Gender Identity (SGI) Institute. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher and is the past recipient of the Gary Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling. He is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or co-author of several books, including Understanding Sexual Identity: A Resource for Youth Ministers and Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. His most recent books are Sexual Identity & Faith and Costly Obedience: Listening to and Learning from Celibate Gay Christians.
Iva Zegura (she/her) graduated from and specialized in clinical psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, in Zagreb and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and is educated in gestalt integrative therapy, cybernetic psychotherapy, and sexual therapy. She works at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce in Zagreb, and collaborates with several national universities and departments of psychology. She is a member of the national list of experts for transgender health care at the Croatian Ministry of Health. She is the president of the Section for Clinical Psychology and Section for Psychology and Human Rights, and vice president of the Section for Psychology of Sexuality and Psychology of Gender. She is president-elect of the board of directors of the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH). In 2022, she received the APA Division 52 International Psychology Global Citizen Psychologist Citation Award and in 2024, she received the highest professional award in Croatia "Ramiro Bujas" from the Croatian Psychological Association.
Contributors
Christine Aramburu Alegria, Frances Aranda, A. Lee Beckstead, Eric Boromisa, Don L. Braegger, Joao Carvalho, Jacks Cheng, Jeannie DiClementi, Stefano Eleuteri, Alison Feit, Darren J. FreemanCoppadge, Susanna M. Gallor, Alejandro Gepp-Torres, Sulaimon Giwa, Iraklis Grigoropoulos, Nathalie Huitema, Jay Jacobsen, Erin S. Lavender-Stott, Tyler Lefevor, Isabel Lima, Paul Linden, Julia Mackaronis, Mani B. Mitchell, Eduardo Morales, Brie Radis, Alex Rivera, Christopher H. Rosik, Jordan Rullo, Walter R. Schumm, Samuel Skidmore, Lauren Smithee, Kersti Spjut, Denise Steers, Jim Struve, Tim van Wanrooij, Moshe-Mordechai (Maurits) van Zuiden, Amanda Veldorale-Griffin, Jeni Wahlig, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, Mark A. Yarhouse, Iva Zegura
A. Lee Beckstead (he/him), PhD, is white-Peruvian, gay, cisgender, currently nondisabled, and spiritual; was excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and has been in a primary relationship with a man since 1997. He has been a psychologist in private practice since 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He provides weekend retreats for male survivors of sexual abuse (MenHealing.org) and he is part of a diverse research team studying the health and satisfaction of individuals who are single and celibate or noncelibate or in a same-gender/queer or mixed-orientation relationship.
Jacks Cheng, PhD, EdM, (ta, he, they) is a queer migrant of Taiwanese heritage to Canada and the U.S. Ta works as supervising psychologist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Ta is also the 2023 Chair of the Committee on Early Career Psychologists of the American Psychological Association.
Sulaimon Giwa, PhD, (he/him/his) is an associate professor and interim dean of social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. Sulaimon is a scholar-activist who self-identifies as Black, Muslim, and gay. He authored the 2022 book, Racism and Gay Men of Color: Living and Coping with Discrimination.
Mark A. Yarhouse, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in conflicts tied to religious identity and sexual and gender identity. He is the Dr. Arthur P. and Mrs. Jean May Rech Chair in Psychology at Wheaton College, where he runs the Sexual and Gender Identity (SGI) Institute. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher and is the past recipient of the Gary Collins Award for Excellence in Christian Counseling. He is currently the Chair of the task force on LGBT issues for Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) of the American Psychological Association. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is author or co-author of several books, including Understanding Sexual Identity: A Resource for Youth Ministers and Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. His most recent books are Sexual Identity & Faith and Costly Obedience: Listening to and Learning from Celibate Gay Christians.
Iva Zegura (she/her) graduated from and specialized in clinical psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, in Zagreb and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and is educated in gestalt integrative therapy, cybernetic psychotherapy, and sexual therapy. She works at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce in Zagreb, and collaborates with several national universities and departments of psychology. She is a member of the national list of experts for transgender health care at the Croatian Ministry of Health. She is the president of the Section for Clinical Psychology and Section for Psychology and Human Rights, and vice president of the Section for Psychology of Sexuality and Psychology of Gender. She is president-elect of the board of directors of the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH). In 2022, she received the APA Division 52 International Psychology Global Citizen Psychologist Citation Award and in 2024, she received the highest professional award in Croatia "Ramiro Bujas" from the Croatian Psychological Association.
Contributors
Christine Aramburu Alegria, Frances Aranda, A. Lee Beckstead, Eric Boromisa, Don L. Braegger, Joao Carvalho, Jacks Cheng, Jeannie DiClementi, Stefano Eleuteri, Alison Feit, Darren J. FreemanCoppadge, Susanna M. Gallor, Alejandro Gepp-Torres, Sulaimon Giwa, Iraklis Grigoropoulos, Nathalie Huitema, Jay Jacobsen, Erin S. Lavender-Stott, Tyler Lefevor, Isabel Lima, Paul Linden, Julia Mackaronis, Mani B. Mitchell, Eduardo Morales, Brie Radis, Alex Rivera, Christopher H. Rosik, Jordan Rullo, Walter R. Schumm, Samuel Skidmore, Lauren Smithee, Kersti Spjut, Denise Steers, Jim Struve, Tim van Wanrooij, Moshe-Mordechai (Maurits) van Zuiden, Amanda Veldorale-Griffin, Jeni Wahlig, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, Mark A. Yarhouse, Iva Zegura
Content
Acknowledgments
A. Lee Beckstead, Jacks Cheng, Sulaimon Giwa, Mark A. Yarhouse, and Iva Zegura
Chapter 1: Live Assertively
Paul Linden, A. Lee Beckstead, Jeannie DiClementi, Julia Mackaronis, Jim Struve, Eduardo Morales, and Tim van Wanrooij
Chapter 2: Find Places to Belong: You Do You
Frances Aranda, Samuel Skidmore, A. Lee Beckstead, Iva Zegura, Christopher H. Rosik, Jay Jacobsen, and Joao Carvalho
Chapter 3: Develop Your Sexuality and Understand Consent
Jordan Rullo, Alex Rivera, Nathalie Huitema, Don L. Braegger, A. Lee Beckstead, Alison Feit, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, and Kersti Spjut
Chapter 4: Find Your Best Options for LGBTQIA+ Singlehood and Relationships
Moshe-Mordechai (Maurits) van Zuiden, A. Lee Beckstead, Stefano Eleuteri, Erin S. Lavender-Stott, Darren J. Freeman-Coppadge, Tyler Lefevor, Eric Boromisa, Lauren Smithee, Christine Aramburu Alegria, Iva Zegura, and Jeni Wahlig
Chapter 5: Support for Parents of LGBTQIA+ Persons and for LGBTQIA+ Parents
Susanna M. Gallor, Grigoropoulos Iraklis, Mani B. Mitchell, Denise Steers, Walter R. Schumm, Jeni Wahlig, Alejandro Gepp-Torres, Isabel Lima, Jeannie DiClementi, Amanda Veldorale-Griffin, and Brie Radis
References
Index
About the Contributors
A. Lee Beckstead, Jacks Cheng, Sulaimon Giwa, Mark A. Yarhouse, and Iva Zegura
Chapter 1: Live Assertively
Paul Linden, A. Lee Beckstead, Jeannie DiClementi, Julia Mackaronis, Jim Struve, Eduardo Morales, and Tim van Wanrooij
Chapter 2: Find Places to Belong: You Do You
Frances Aranda, Samuel Skidmore, A. Lee Beckstead, Iva Zegura, Christopher H. Rosik, Jay Jacobsen, and Joao Carvalho
Chapter 3: Develop Your Sexuality and Understand Consent
Jordan Rullo, Alex Rivera, Nathalie Huitema, Don L. Braegger, A. Lee Beckstead, Alison Feit, Josephine Pui-Hing Wong, and Kersti Spjut
Chapter 4: Find Your Best Options for LGBTQIA+ Singlehood and Relationships
Moshe-Mordechai (Maurits) van Zuiden, A. Lee Beckstead, Stefano Eleuteri, Erin S. Lavender-Stott, Darren J. Freeman-Coppadge, Tyler Lefevor, Eric Boromisa, Lauren Smithee, Christine Aramburu Alegria, Iva Zegura, and Jeni Wahlig
Chapter 5: Support for Parents of LGBTQIA+ Persons and for LGBTQIA+ Parents
Susanna M. Gallor, Grigoropoulos Iraklis, Mani B. Mitchell, Denise Steers, Walter R. Schumm, Jeni Wahlig, Alejandro Gepp-Torres, Isabel Lima, Jeannie DiClementi, Amanda Veldorale-Griffin, and Brie Radis
References
Index
About the Contributors