title: Clinicians' perspective of the relational processes for family and individual development during the mediation of religious and sexual identity disclosure.
abstract: Although the psychological literature regarding gay men from religious families is continually expanding, it is also limited in that few studies focus on the use of therapy in the negotiation of the interrelated systems of religion, sexuality, and family. Utilizing a cultural historical activity theory-based process of analysis, this study focuses on the narratives of 12 clinicians discussing 230 conflicts and how those conflicts are mediated in both productive (e.g., seeking secular support) and unproductive ways (e.g., bringing one's son to an exorcist) by gay men and their religious families independent of and at the advice of their therapists.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , Barnard College, Columbia University , New York , New York , USA.
authors.forename: Chana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Etengoff
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Daiute
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003469:Culture; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005196:Family Therapy; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012071:Religion and Sex; D012650:Self Disclosure; D014481:United States
keywords: clinical practice; conflict; gay; religious; sociocultural; therapy