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Applying Person-Centered Counseling to Sexual Minority Adolescents
β Scribed by S. Jim Lemoire; Charles P. Chen
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1556-6678
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
To understand the rationale of using the person-centered approach in helping LGBT clients, it may be helpful to understand the sexual identity development of these clients and how the person-centered helping approach may be relevant to this unique identity development. There has been a dearth of empirical research evidence in literature regarding studies of LGBT populations. The emerging literature in this area consists mainly of conceptual positions and theoretical models proposed by scholars.
This literature simplifies and categorizes sexual identity development into distinct, sequential stages that end with an integration of homosexuality into the broader personal identity. Although such stage models are adapted for spe-
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