Queer Youth in Family Therapy.
Trends in popular belief about same-sex relationships have undergone noteworthy change in the United States over the last decade. Yet this change has been marked by stark polarizations and has occurred at varying rates depending upon regional, community, racial, religious, and individual family context. For queer youth and their families, this cultural transformation has broadened opportunities and created a new set of risks and vulnerabilities. At the same time, youth's increasingly open and playful gender fluidity and sexual identity is complicated by unique intersections of class, race, religion, and immigration. Effective family therapy with queer youth requires practitioner's and treatment models that are sensitive to those who bear the burden of multiple oppressions and the hidden resilience embedded in their layered identities. We present case examples of our model of family therapy which addresses refuge, supports difficult dialogs, and nurtures queerness by looking for hidden resilience in the unique intersections of queer youths' lives. These intersections provide transformational potential for youth, their families and even for family therapists as we are all nurtured and challenged to think more complexly about intersectionality, sexuality, and gender.
Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.
Rebecca G
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Harvey
Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.
Linda
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Stone Fish
D000293:Adolescent; D005195:Family Relations; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012933:Social Identification; D012934:Social Isolation; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055815:Young Adult
Family therapy; Gay; Lesbian; Resilience; Transgendered youth; gay; jóvenes transexuales; lesbiana; resiliencia; terapia familiar; 变性青少年; 女同性恋; 家庭心理治疗; 男同性恋; 韧性