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A 5 page paper that deals with the issues facing counseling psychologists who counsel adolescent homosexuals. The paper discusses the issues facing the adolescents and gives the psychologist background research on a few of these issues. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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ways.... What gays experience is a rejection not of their actions but of who they are constitutionally, a rejection of their very nature and being. --Robert Bauman, former Congressman Address
to the American Bar Association, 1983" (McKee & Hayes et al., 1994). This description aptly describes the reasons behind why counseling psychologists must gain an understanding of how this
societal view affects adolescent homosexuals and, likewise, the issues the psychologists must face. Fontaine & Hammond report that "in a culture already uncomfortable
about adult sex and worried about adolescent sexual behavior, the idea of homosexual sex generates hostile and almost reflexive contempt. Societys abhorrence, and hence avoidance, of homosexuality is reflected
in the dearth of articles in the professional literature of counseling and psychology" (Fontaine & Hammond, 1996). Buhrke, Ben-Ezra, Hurley & Reprecht (1992) found that between 1978 and 1989,
only 43 of the 6,661articles published in six psychological journals addressed the issues of gays and lesbians (Fontaine, 1996). Fontaine & Hammond contend that these types of prejudices and
lack of research makes the counseling psychologist ill-prepared to effectively counsel gays, lesbians and bisexuals. McKee & Hayes add: "The empowerment and affirmation of lesbian, bisexual, and gay students
is long overdue" (Fontaine, 1996; McKee., 1994). The important issues for psychologists are not only the onset of homosexual feelings or categorization, but
also the affects of those feelings on adolescents, and their confusion surrounding their feelings. A 1997 study conducted by Mallet, Apostolidis & Paty provides some of this information, which
they believe to be helpful to the psychologist trying to understand how to apply, e.g., Cass study on the coming out process (Mallet, Apostolidis & Paty, 1997; McKee, 1994).
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