Gender Identity and Faith - Clinical Postures, Tools, and Case Studies for Client-Centered Care

Helping people navigate gender identity questions today is complex and often polarized work. For clients and families who are also informed by their faith, some mental health approaches raise more questions than answers. Clinicians need a client-centered, open-ended approach that makes room for gender exploration while respecting religious identity. Gender Identity and Faith carves out clinical space for mental health professionals to help people who wish to take seriously their gender identity, their religious identity, and the relationship between the two. Drawing from their extensive research and experience with clients, Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky provide a timely, practical resource for practitioners. This book

Integrating personhood and values is no easy feat, especially in our current cultural landscape, the authors write. Those navigating this intersection need clinicians who seek to understand their unique context and journey alongside them with empathy. This book points the way.

About the author

Mark A. Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, where he directs the Sexual and Gender Identity Institute and serves as a core faculty member in the doctoral program in clinical psychology.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Sadusky, Julia A Sadusky, Julia A. Sadusky, Mark A Yarhouse, Mark A. Yarhouse
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780830841813
• ISBN: 978-0-8308-4181-3
• No. of pages: 226
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 374 g
• Series: Christian Association for Psyc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology