Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity and Constructing Preferred Identities - Paperback

by Julie Tilsen (Author), David Nylund (Foreword by), Sheila McNamee (Foreword by)

Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth is for practitioners who seek culturally responsive, socially-just ways of engaging queer youth in conversations that evoke imagination, provoke possibility, and honor the courageous resistance and arresting inventiveness of their young clients. The first therapy book that focuses on work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or lesbian identities), it's also the first to draw on queer theory and constructionist philosophy to inform practice with queer youth. Case vignettes and reflective exercises suitable for classroom use are provided through the commentary of five queer youth who served as cultural consultants to the research and writing of the book.

Author Biography

Julie Tilsen, PhD, is the training director for the International Center for Clinical Excellence and an associate of the Taos Institute. Her work is featured in several counselor training videos including Queer Theory in Action: Theoretical Resources for Therapeutic Conversations, Feedback Informed Treatment, Therapy as Social Construction, and iYouth: Kids, Counseling, and Pop Culture.