This Handbook is a tour de force of best thought and practice for affirmative therapy now as well as a story of how much has changed and how much still must, not just for LGBTQ couples and their families but for humanity. The Editors and authors grapple with the complexities that layer lives courageously lived within evolving densities of oppressions. The through lines of the clinically and conceptually sound chapters are a critique of heteronormativity, the importance of an intersectional analysis and the imperative of social justice for all. I highly recommend this wise and deeply felt book.
- Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D.; Director, the Witness to Witness Program
Social justice meets psychotherapy in this timely innovative book. These diverse authors demonstrate how to identify and transform oppressive narratives about race, gender and sexuality interwoven not only in LGBTQ couple and family life but in training and supervision practices. The breath of content includes often neglected topics for LGBTQ clients such as sex therapy, elders, spirituality, and divorce. It is time to queer the field of couple and family therapy for clients of all races, gender, and sexual experiences. This book leads the way.
- Suzanne Iasenza, PhD.; author of Transforming sexual narratives: A relational approach to sex therapy
This comprehensive text should be required reading for every family therapist, psychologist, social worker, counsellor, and other mental health worker. It is superbly written, conveying complex ideas in a clear, thoughtful, practical and useful way. The book is a pleasure to read. It lays out a transformational perspective on the many complexities of LGBTQ families. The authors and editors share, as they say, an impatience with artifice and a love for the aspirational. Indeed they do. But beyond that, they provide an excellent roadmap for considering or more appropriately reconsidering all the families we see. They offer an expansive contextual perspective on intersectionality, resilience, and support from "outside the margins," with excellent case examples, thoughtful and practical clinical suggestions and a hopeful, resilience-focused orientation toward even the most complex and difficult case situations.
- Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD (h.c.); Director, Multicultural Family Institute; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, RWJ Medical School, Rutgers University
The Handbook does full justice to the enormous diversity within the LGBTQ community. Each chapter is an eye-opening and rewarding reading experience. The book abounds with specific treatment guidelines and clinical case examples for practitioners. An impressive achievement!
- Robert-Jay Green, PhD; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University
