Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity
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Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity

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eBook - ePub

Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity

About this book

Learn to reach out to these hidden Christians! Offering a wide variety of points of view from the welcoming to the traditional, Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity addresses one of the crucial issues facing the church in these shifting times. Pastors of all Christian churches, whatever their denomination or theology, are likely to be faced with pastoral care or counseling of someone who is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered. This valuable compendium examines various ways you can meet the spiritual and psychological needs of these members of your congregation. Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity addresses the basic problems of sexual diversity, including definitions of sexual orientations and issues of human development. It offers wise guidance for offering pastoral care and counseling, and it provides tested solutions for the problems counselors face in dealing with these individuals. Pastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity offers thought-provoking points of view on a wide range of issues, including:

  • changes in attitudes toward homosexuality among mental health professionals
  • the limits of confidentiality
  • sexual diversity in the black church
  • a developmental model for effective treatment of male homosexuality
  • pastoral care and the formation of sexual identity
  • Biblical perspectives on homosexuality
  • counseling lesbians
  • AIDS ministries and grief counselingPastoral Care and Counseling in Sexual Diversity is an essential resource for pastors, pastoral counselors, and therapists dealing with these vexing issues facing the Christian church in the new millennium.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
Topic
Psychology
eBook ISBN
9781317719472
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology
Index
Numbers followed by “f” indicate figures.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). See AIDS
Active destructive relationships, 8
Adolescents
hetero-social stage, 7
homo-social stage, 7
African Americans
Black sexuality and, 45, 46
churches and, 46
sexual diversity and, 48, 49, 50
AIDS
caregivers of victims, 209, 210
case examples, 209, 210, 211
community, impact on, 212
decline in death rate, 237, 238
diagnosis and, 213
disenfranchisement and, 208, 212, 215
drugs in, 234, 237
dying of, 210
emotional support and, 214
family relationship dynamics and, 213
homosexuality and, 212, 226, 229
intravenous drug users (IUDs), 229, 236, 237
misunderstanding of, 232
population, changes in, 235, 236, 238
relationships and, 209
statistics of, 208, 209, 229, 230, 231, 232f; 237f
transmission of, 208
trauma of, 212
unresolved grief reactions and, 209
See also AIDS-related losses; AIDS service organizations; Bereavement, AIDS related losses and; HIV
AIDS-related losses
bereavement, complicated in, 220, 222, 223
disenfranchisement and, 223, 226
immortality and, 211
physical losses and, 211
psychological and social losses and, 211, 212, 213
sanction in treatment, 224, 226
AIDS Services Organizations (ASOs)
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (Act Up), 234, 235
client base, changes in, 235, 236
evolution of, 231, 232, 233
funding and, 235
gay and lesbians leadership in, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235
HIV prevention education programs, 236, 237, 238, 239
religious organizations and, 230, 238, 239, 240
...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. ABOUT THE EDITOR
  7. About the Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Sexual Diversity: An Issue for Counselors and Churches
  10. Changes in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Among Mental Health Professionals: What Pastoral Counselors Need to Know
  11. Does “Confidentiality” Have Limits? Relationships Between Pastors and Counselors
  12. Pastoral Care of Sexual Diversity in the Black Church
  13. Gay and Lesbian Christians: Faith and Coping in the Church
  14. Pastoral Care with Marriages and Domestic Partnerships
  15. A Developmental Model for Effective Treatment of Male Homosexuality: Implications for Pastoral Counseling
  16. Pastoral Care and the Formation of Sexual Identity: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered
  17. Love the Sinner: A Pastoral Response to Homosexuality
  18. A Practical Theology of “Welcoming”
  19. What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
  20. What Does the Bible Call Us, as Christians to Do on This Issue?
  21. A Welcoming Ministry for All God’s Children
  22. Counseling Lesbians
  23. A Pastoral Theology for the Sinned Against: Adult Christian Women Sexually Abused as Children
  24. Disenfranchised Bereavement: Pastoral Care of Complicated Grief Reactions to AIDS-Related Losses
  25. AIDS Services Organizations: A Call to Ministry
  26. Index

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