Deconstructing Heterosexism in the Counseling Professions A Narrative Approach

The Title "Deconstructing Heterosexism in the Counseling Professions A Narrative Approach" is written by James M. Croteau. This book was published in the year 2004. The ISBN number 0761929819|9780761929819 is assigned to the Hardback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 288 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Sage Publications. Deconstructing Heterosexism in the Counseling Professions A Narrative Approach is currently Available with us.

• This book is not a “how to” book about counseling or therapy on sexual orientation issues. There are other such books, this one is unique.
Rather than a focus on “how to”, the focus is on stimulating collective and individual self -examination and providing empowerment and guidance to counseling professions in navigating sexual orientation in one’s professional life.

• This book uniquely exposes and challenges the current heterosexist discourse in the counseling professions AND examines how to build the strength and complexity of the current LGB affirmative counter discourse in the counseling professions.

• Until recently, LGB lives and issues have been rendered invisible in the larger society and in the counseling professions. LGB-affirmative counseling professionals are no longer without voice in professional circles, however, the stories of navigating sexual orientation as counseling professionals have not be told or explored in any systematic way before this book. We believe that by experiencing the lived stories and their analyses in the book, this narrative approach will provide counseling professionals with a deeper emotional appreciation, and a clearer understanding, of the quality and extent of both heterosexism and LGB affirmation in the counseling professions.

• The chapters in the second section of the book provide unique treatments of difficult issues for counseling professionals concerning sexual orientation: tensions between race and sexual orientation, and issues around openness versus other ways to manage a minority sexual identity.

• On a practical level, the book is authored by over 30 counseling professional and contains narratives about the experiences of over 20 professionals, many of whom are fairly well-know in the LGB affirmative counseling and in the larger fields of counseling psychology and counselor education. We think that a major appeal of the book may be that counseling professionals will want to know the stories of these leaders about how they have experienced sexual orientation issues in their professional lives.