Counseling LGBTQ+ and Women Populations

Counseling LGBTQ+ and Women Populations

Instructions: Complete this week’s required reading in the Sue et al (2019) textbook then answer all questions below within your TD.  After posting your TD, remember to complete the required number of peer responses.

Initial Prompt:

1. You are a counselor who has been assigned the following case: An unmarried lesbian couple would like to adopt a child from the foster care system. However, one member of the couple, your client—a 35-year-old lawyer from a prestigious law firm—is not “out” to her family or colleagues. Her partner desperately wants a child but your client fears that having a child will “out” her sexual orientation to her parents and colleagues.

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◦           How would you proceed in counseling this client?

◦           What other information do you need?

◦           What would be some of the challenges you might face?

2. In what ways can gender bias be evidenced in counseling?

◦           Consider such factors as beliefs/assumptions, therapeutic models that are embraced, assessment process, the therapeutic relationship, goal setting, selected interventions, etc.

◦           What can counselors do to minimize the likelihood that such bias will occur in counseling and therapy?

Counseling LGBTQ+ and Women Populations

Instructions: Complete this week’s required reading in the Sue et al (2019) textbook then answer all questions below within your TD.  After posting your TD, remember to complete the required number of peer responses.

Check tips on how to do your Psychology Assignments. 

Initial Prompt:

1. You are a counselor who has been assigned the following case: An unmarried lesbian couple would like to adopt a child from the foster care system. However, one member of the couple, your client—a 35-year-old lawyer from a prestigious law firm—is not “out” to her family or colleagues. Her partner desperately wants a child but your client fears that having a child will “out” her sexual orientation to her parents and colleagues.

◦           How would you proceed in counseling this client?

◦           What other information do you need?

◦           What would be some of the challenges you might face?

2. In what ways can gender bias be evidenced in counseling?

◦           Consider such factors as beliefs/assumptions, therapeutic models that are embraced, assessment process, the therapeutic relationship, goal setting, selected interventions, etc.

◦           What can counselors do to minimize the likelihood that such bias will occur in counseling and therapy?