Take your knowledge of the mental health issues that affect LGBT
people to the next level! The Handbook of LGBT Issues in Community
Mental Health provides reliable, up-to-date information on clinical
issues, administrative practices, and health concerns related to
the provision of public sector mental health services to LGBT
people. The handbook presents clinical case material and describes
various current clinical programs, with details about how they were
developed and fostered, as well as their unique role in the
provision of mental health services to this population.
Contributors share their experiences developing two of the largest
public LGBT programs in the United States and offer practical
strategies for developing LGBT mental health programming in any
community. This single source brings together mental health
clinicians, administrators, and advocates whose work involves
public sector issues that concern the LGBT community. These
seasoned experts provide in-depth information for those who need to
know about the current state of mental health care in public
psychiatry for LGBT individuals. The book also explores the
professional and popular literature on the subject, providing a
broad overview of the issues in this expanding clinical area. The
Handbook of LGBT Issues in Community Mental Health contains five
chapters that target policy, administrative, and programmatic
issues, providing a neglected perspective for clinicians, program
developers, administrators, advocates, and funders. In addition,
you'll find: two case studies that vividly demonstrate the
relevance of culturally appropriate services and highlight the
reasons why services in this area are so sorely needed a
psychiatrist's recollections of the changes he faced while working
in a homophobic environment within the Veterans Administration
system fascinating interviews with Francis Lu and Barbara Warren
that probe the thoughts, experience, and opinions of these leaders
in the development of public sector mental health programs for LGBT
people an examination of the role of gender identity in the
treatment of a male-to-female transgender person with major mental
illness In the Handbook of LGBT Issues in Community Mental Health,
you'll also find practical, how-they-did-it information that shows:
how LGBT organizations in New York State organized to gain public
funding for mental health and other human services, and how a new
advocacy strategy that consolidated LGBT human service
organizations into a statewide network was pioneered in that state
how mental health care for sexual minority teens was incorporated
into the medical clinic setting at a major metropolitan hospital
how a culturally sensitive program for LGBT people with major
mental illness was developed in New York State's largest community
mental health center how a small, volunteer community health agency
developed into a multi-million dollar facility that provides
comprehensive health care to New York City's LGBT community
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