Customer Reviews

Excellent starting point and reference guide - By: , 10 Jan 2000
Pink Therapy is an excellent introduction to working with clients who are gay, lesbian or bisexual. I would thoroughly recommend it to any therapist who would like to know more about sexuality, sexual identity, coming out and/or gay & lesbian culture. Divided into 13 easy-to-read chapters such as "Toward a model of gay affirmative therapy", "Working with people coming out", "Working with young people", & "Partner abuse", the book provides a fairly comprehensive resource for those with little or no previous experience of working with clients from sexual minorities. I would also recommend this book as one of the only reference guides to be largely written by gay, lesbian & bisexual therapists about gay, lesbian & bisexual clients for (mostly) heterosexual counsellors. Intended primarily for counsellors, Pink Therapy can function as a solid introduction for anyone workingin helping relationships with clients from oppressed groups. Counselling Supervisionin Context, edited by Michael Carroll & Elizabeth Holloway includes an intelligent chapter specifically about working with sexuality, heterosexism & homophobiain counselling supervision, a subject dealt with only brieflyin Pink Therapy.