title: Clients' perceptions of how reorientation therapy and self-help can promote changes in sexual orientation.
abstract: Presented is a summary of 882 homosexual people's responses to 5 open-ended questions about sexual reorientation therapy. Of the 882 participants, 726 reported that they had received reorientation therapy from a professional therapist or a pastoral counselor. As a group, 779 (89.7%) of the participants viewed themselves as "more homosexual than heterosexual," "almost exclusively homosexual," or "exclusively homosexual" in their orientation before receiving reorientation therapy or making self-help efforts to change. The majority reported they believed sexual reorientation therapy and various forms of self-help were helpful to them, psychologically, spiritually, and sexually.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, 375 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA. d.byrd@utah.edu
authors.forename: A Dean
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Byrd
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nicolosi
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Potts
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012649:Self Concept; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012725:Sexual Behavior