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THE SPRING PROJECT: Gay and Lesbian Domestic Violence Resources
A Service Provider Resource, Interaction, and Networking Gateway
 
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Affirmative Psychotherapy and Counseling for Lesbians and Gay Men (2002) | ||
 
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Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology: A Resource Manual (Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian & Gay Issues) This volume will serve as a basic resource with information on salient lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered psychology issues and will furnish the reader with a range of references and other resources to explore each topic in greater depth. | ||
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The Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (1999)
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| Gay And Lesbian Students: Understanding Their Needs (1995).
Designed to promote understanding and dispel myths about gay and lesbian tennagers, the volume also makes curriculum suggestions to advocate self-acceptance and tolerance and to reduce homophobia among heterosexual teenagers. It seeks to explain how institutional homophobia has affected the belief system and behaviour of a large segment of the American population. Various themes concerning the origins of sexual development are discussed, as is information concerning students who are children of gay and lesbian parents. | ||
 
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The Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents (1995) Written by and for gay and straight educators, "The Gay Teen" explores gay student adoldscence from discursive, practical and theoretical perpectives. Essays in the first section of the volume are designed to introduce and sensitize educators to the complexities of gay identity and set forth some of the issues besetting gay youth in high schools: alienation from peer groups, low academic acheivement, violence, substance abuse and absence of gay teacher role models. | ||
 
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Good Practice in Working With Victims of Violence (Good Practice Series, 8) Study of real or threatened physical violence and its consequences. Balances professional expertise with personal account of children and adults who have been subjected to violence. | ||
 
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Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients Summarizes empirical literature supporting research and practice with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients; explores social and historical perspectives; and discusses critical issues of diversity with these communities. For psychologists, therapists, and social workers. | ||
 
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Homosexuality: Research Implications For Public Policy Summarizes academic knowledge about homosexuality and its relevance for public policy. Topics addressed include the nature and causes of sexual orientations; the reasons homosexuality is not an illness; the ethics of various mental health approaches to homosexuality; the effects of social and legal discrimination; newer biological and psychological understandings of homosexuality; homosexuals as parents; and the implications of the AIDS epidemic. The contributors hail from a variety of disciplines (social, clinical, and counselling psychology; law; psychiatry; social work; biology; nursing; and anthropology), so this volume offers a balanced approach to an important issue. | ||
 
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Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships Analyzes the factors that contribute to lesbian domestic violence, and suggests treatments tailored to this community. The seven papers discuss the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on lesbian relationships, and the application of the fundamental interpersonal relations orientation-behavior test to a sample group of abusers. Excellent for training programs in mental health and gender studies. | ||
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Naming the Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering (New Leaf Series) | ||
 
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No More Secrets : Violence in Lesbian Relationships Although one in four gay and lesbian couples are affected by domestic violence, the problem has remained hidden for several reasons. First is the fear of homophobic backlash should lesbian violence be acknowledged. More significantly, Ristock argues, the lesbian feminist culture has readily adopted the idea that men are more violent than women in order to validate lesbian relationships. Recognizing abuse among lesbians would undermine the cemented belief that domestic abuse is an expression of patriarchy and gender bias. The definitive book on the subject, No More Secrets combines extensive research on the nature of lesbian battering with close-up analysis that will change our understanding of crimes of intimacy in heterosexual and homosexual couples alike. | ||
 
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A Professional's Guide to Understanding Gay and Lesbian Domestic Violence: Understanding Practice Interventions (Symposium Series (Edwin Mellen Press),V. 56.) This work far exceeds any published work in breadth and depth on issues related to both gay and lesbian domestic violence. It includes preliminary results of two groundbreaking research projects; includes detailed information on assessment procedures and evaluation instruments, treatment modalities for gay and lesbian victims and batterers, and impact and intervention techniques for children of same-sex couples witnessing domestic violence. The chapter on ethics will assist professionals in specific fields (e. g. nurses, social workers, psychologists) to apply their ethical standards to gay and lesbian couples experiencing domestic violence. | ||
 
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Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences A compilation of important articles which provides a comprehensive overview of current thought on the psychological aspects of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual experience. The book is divided into nine sections which deal with the meaning of sexual orientation; the psychological dimensions of prejudice, discrimination, and violence; identity development; diversity; relationships and families; adolescence, midlife, and aging; health (including a discussion of AIDS); mental health; and the status of practice, research, and public policy issues in American psychology. | ||
 
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Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies For Change (SAGE Series on Violence against Women) This publication signifies the growing official recognition of domestic violence within lesbian and gay relationships as a social problem worthy of serious attention and intervention. It comprehensively addresses the social service needs of gay and lesbian domestic violence victims and perpetrators. The contributors give specific suggestions to improve service providers' responses to gay and lesbian victims of domestic violence. Editors Renzetti and Miley begin by providing readers with an overview of the problem and the responses of the domestic violence movement and other social service providers. Chapters are sure to raise your awareness of the problem and emphasize the need to develop specialized services for both victims and perpetrators. | ||
 
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Sexual Identities, Queer Politics Issues ranging from housing to adoption to laws on sodomy, however, have increasingly raised important political questions about the rights and status of sexual minorities, particularly within liberal democracies such as the United States, and also on an international level. This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of the study of lgbt politics in political science across the discipline's main subfields and methodologies, and it spotlights lgbt movements in several regions around the world. Focusing on the politics of sexuality with regard to the politics of knowledge, the book presents a discussion of power that will interest all political scientists and others concerned with minority rights and gender as well as with transformation in the relations between public and private. | ||
 
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Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (2003) Offers critical exploration of issues of safety and security at the centre of responses to violence. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis, drawing on feminism, lesbian and gay studies, sociology, cultural geography, criminology and critical legal scholarship the book offers to transform the way we understand and respond to the challenges raised by violence. It breaks new ground in its examination of the rhetoric and politics of violence, property, home, cosmopolitanism and stranger danger in the generation of safety and security. | ||
 
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Stigma and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Prejudice Against Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals (Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian & Gay Issues) (1997) This timely and accessible contribution towards a deeper understanding of homophobia provides much-needed insight into the issue of prejudice in general. Topics discussed include: the nature of antigay prejudice, stereotypes and behaviors; the consequences of homophobia and related phenomena on the well-being of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals; and the critical need for psychology and science to examine homophobia and related issues. | ||
 
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Training Professionals Who Work With Gays and Lesbians in Educational and Workplace Settings The denial of sexual orientation can lead to a multitude of problems such as suicide and suicide attempts, academic failure, dropping out of school, drug and alcohol abuse, alienation from parents and friends, running away from home, and teenage pregnancies. The purpose of this manual is to provide a training model of the most effective methods for providing help to the thousands of gay and lesbian students who are attending secondary schools and colleges and who will eventually join the workplace. | ||
 
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Violence and Social Injustice Against Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People Looks past the stereotypical picture of violence against sexual minorities--the public physical assaults on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth by hypermasculine male thugs--and directs you towards the many daily acts of quiet violence that go on, unhindered, in the workaday settings of our legal, social, education, and law-enforcement institutions. Learn about the frightening prevalence of complacency, homophobic ignorance, and apathy that pervades our police departments, courts, high schools, and churches. Armed with this critical insight and statistical research, you'll be better equipped to wage a nonviolent war of fairness and mutual respect against the daily, senseless violence of policy and practice that threatens to render gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people unwelcome and battered citizens in their own communities. | ||
 
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Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention. | ||
 
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Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships (1992) Based on a study of violence in lesbian relationships, this comprehensive book derives from a common theme expressed by the subjects - the sense of having been betrayed, first by their lovers, and subsequently by the lesbian community which tended to deny the problem when the victims sought help. The central issues addressed are consequences for victims, batterers and the community as a whole, and what we can learn about domestic violence in general by studying violence in lesbian relationships. The research presented brings a fresh perspective to our understanding of domestic violence by examining the phenomenon of women as perpetrators of intimate violence against women, and it makes a clear distinction between battering and self defense. | ||
 
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Woman-to-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape? (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and the Law) The author discusses how the lesbian community has silenced survivors of sexual violence due to myths of lesbian utopia, and considers what role societal homophobia, biphobia, and heterosexism has played in this silencing. Ranging from date and acquaintance rape, to domestic sexual abuse by partners, to sexual harassment in the workplace, these explicit and harrowing stories provide a fuller understanding of woman-to-woman sexual violence than exists anywhere else. Offers insights on a subject rarely discussed in the literature on domestic violence. Recommends how agencies can best provide services, outreach, and treatment to survivors of woman-to-woman rape and lesbian battering, using suggestions by the survivors themselves. | ||
