This book is an accessible, expert guide to incorporating LGBTQIA-inclusive practices into end-of-life care. It equips both new and experienced hospice and palliative care professionals with the knowledge they need to ensure that all people receive high-quality care.
This pivotal resource--the first written specifically for nurses--focuses on the unique health needs and inequities affecting LGBTQ+ patients and discusses how to provide them with safe, respectful, and holistic care. Written in an easy-access bulleted format with concise paragraphs, this book sets the stage by examining the background and history of the LGBTQ+ population.
An accessible guide for clinicians and clinical students working in the fields of eating disorders and transgender health psychology. The book addresses provides advice on the key issues involved in therapeutic work with transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive clients, including trauma, minority stress, coming out, family support, appearance and body changes.
This book addresses the practical health needs of LGBT patients in a variety of settings and serves as a guide that can be utilised within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice. Beginning with a short review of LGBT populations and health disparities, it largely focuses on the application and implementation of LGBT best practices within all realms of medical care.
This volume provides an overview of several key knowledge areas related to unique care for LGBTQ+ patients. The book covers topics such as the negative impact of stigma on health, LGBTQ+ experiences of substance abuse and mental health, and misconceptions and myths that may affect patient care. Provides a focus on understanding the diversity of communities and their needs.
A down-to-earth, informative, and affirming manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities. The book contains 10 chapters covering lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, pansexual, and allied individuals. Some chapters overlap because some people identify with more than one of these identities. A section in each chapter addresses themes that may emerge during therapy, preparing the clinician to identify and respond sensitively and knowledgeably.
This study examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive 'treatment' for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them. It covers a critical period in British queer history during which the reigning public and professional discourse surrounding homosexuality shifted from crime to sickness to tolerance. Drawing on oral histories and archival materials, it makes a significant and substantial contribution to both the history of nursing and the history of sexuality.
This book shows healthcare and medical practitioners how to deliver excellent primary and secondary care to gender diverse patients. Beyond setting out how clinical procedures should work for gender reassignment, it explains how to use language and pronouns in a respectful way, provides information on transgender services and resources, and offers insights into the challenges commonly faced by transgender people in both medical and social contexts.
This book examines the health outcomes and risk factors that gender and sexual minority groups face while simultaneously providing evidence-based clinical recommendations and resources for meeting their health needs.