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Title: Clinical Issues and Programming for Sexual and Gender Minority Populations

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Publication Year: 2022

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10239-4_49

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Abstract: As concepts of mental health have advanced and social change has evolved, social psychiatry has adapted and influenced the contemporary delivery of mental health care to the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community. A neoteric understanding of sexual orientation was crucial in delineating a contemporary redefinition of that which constitutes a mental disorder when homosexuality was declassified in 1973. Subsequently, affirmative therapies emerged. Gender identity disorder was replaced by gender dysphoric disorder. Same-sex marriage, previously a fanciful notion, became legally recognized on a national basis. New and existing journals began to convey a corpus of novel research in sexual and gender minority studies that would be incorporated into educational curricula. And, SGM psychiatrists were, at last, free from the implications of pathology, to become active and open participants in the profession. Few classes of people within our society have undergone such dramatic change, even within the last decade. These gains have affected the well-being of SGM individuals in complex ways. This chapter explores these issues from a community psychiatry perspective, giving the community psychiatrist an essential perspective and understanding as providers of care to the SGM community.

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Authors: Hellman, Ronald

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Pages: 679-693

Volume Title: Textbook of Community Psychiatry

Publisher: Springer, Cham

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Gender, Health, Reproductive and Sexual Health

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