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This 8 page paper offers a synopsis of five articles that focus, in some way, on career counseling or career development of gays and lesbians. The first article reports some of the many guidelines from the American Psychological Association for counselors working with gays, lesbians and bisexuals. The next one focuses on gay men although there are comments about lesbians. This article discusses the need to have special programs for counseling gay men in the workplace. The third discussion is about a book for career counselors in which challenges and barriers as well as helpful suggestions are provided. Next, is an article about the paucity of research studies of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students on the college campus and the reasons for this dearth of studies. The last article talks about career counseling for adolescents and the special problems this group faces. The articles are compared. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Psychological Association and is entitled Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Clients (2003). This paper is not long enough to outline all the guidelines included, therefore, a few
of what seem to the reader to be extremely pertinent to career counseling with gays and lesbians will be presented: * Psychologists need to understand that homosexuality and bisexuality are
not indicative of mental illness (American Psychological Association , 2003). Homosexuality is not classified as a mental illness. It was more than 25 years ago that the American Psychological
Association resolved that "Homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgment, stability, reliability, or general social or vocational capabilities" (American Psychological Association , 2003). * Psychologists must recognize how their
own personal attitudes and knowledge about lesbian, gay, and bisexual issues may be relevant to assessment (American Psychological Association , 2003). * Psychologists need to understand the ways in which
social stigmatization, i.e., prejudice, discrimination, and violence, poses risks to the mental health and well-being of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients * Psychologists should be aware of and understand how
inaccurate or prejudicial views of homosexuality or bisexuality may affect the clients presentation in treatment and the therapeutic process This is an important document because it notifies psychologists that they
must be aware of their own biases, societys biases and the challenges that face gays and lesbians. This document also leads into an article entitled Gay Men in the Workplace:
Issues for Mental Health Counselors by Todd Sussman (1996). Although this article focuses on gay men, Sussman points out that many of the same issues face lesbians and bisexuals (1996).
Sussman reports that an earlier study regarding career development issues in lesbians, gay males and heterosexuals by Etringer found that "lesbians demonstrated the least amount of uncertainty in choosing careers,
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