Journal article
Religious Attitudes, Homophobia, and Professional Counseling
Journal of L G B T Issues in Counseling, Vol.4(2), pp.70-91
2010
Abstract
During an Australian qualitative and empirical study looking at lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender client's experiences of counseling, and counselor's experiences of working with minority clients, a large body of unsolicited data emerged related to experiences of religious-based homophobia. Analysis of the data suggests that a lifelong process of posttraumatic recovery for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people follows prior experiences of religious-based homophobia. This paper discusses the sociological debate related to how counselors find themselves at the crossroad between a healthy lifestyle model of homosexuality based in well established contemporary professional ethics versus long standing religious-based attitudes and constraints toward homosexuality. This intersection of conflicting beliefs generates a controversial social and political environment in which counselors must make a basic decision to either support minority clients according to ethical guidelines or to side with socially conservative constructs that, rightly or wrongly, rely largely on Western religious traditions.
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- Title
- Religious Attitudes, Homophobia, and Professional Counseling
- Authors
- Randolf J Bowers (Author) - University of New EnglandV Minichiello (Author) - University of New EnglandD Plummer (Author) - Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
- Publication details
- Journal of L G B T Issues in Counseling, Vol.4(2), pp.70-91
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2010
- DOI
- 10.1080/15538605.2010.481961
- ISSN
- 1553-8605
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450147102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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