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Feminist Therapy

The American Psychological Association has a number of organizations specific to women, including:

Division 17, Counseling Psychology

Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women

Association for Women in Psychology offers the Psychology of Women Resource List (POWR), which contains an electronic network discussion of current topics, research, teaching strategies, and practice issues dealing with women in psychology.

Jean Baker Miller Training Institute provides workshops, courses, and professional training in various aspects of feminist therapy. It is located at the Stone Center at Wellesley College.

Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College contains more than 100 papers and books that explain or apply the relational-cultural model, the latest feminist therapy model.

LGBT

Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists

Be Yourself: Questions and Answers for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Youth is offered by PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).

Bisexuality 101 is a resource packet with a fact sheet, resource lists, and articles from PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).

Creating Safe Space for GLBTQ Youth: A Toolkit is a 79-page manual from Advocates for Youth that can be downloaded free. It includes excellent sections specifically on supporting youth of color and trans youth and 12 lesson plans for any youth program or grade 8 to12 classroom.

83,000 Youth: Selected Findings of Eight Population-Based Studies by Safe Schools Coalition is the first-ever compilation of quantitative research that explores the particular needs of gay, lesbian, and bisexual high school students and sheds light on the issue of anti-gay harassment in schools. The studies include six statewide surveys, two administered in urban school districts and one conducted in the schools of 55 American Indian tribes.

Experiences, Vulnerabilities and Risks of Lesbian and Gay Students was written by Caitlin Ryan and Donna Futterman (2001) in The Prevention Researcher.

For Better or For Worse: For five weeks in 1993, artist Lynn Johnston devoted her comic strip to telling the story of Lawrence coming out to his friends and parents. The strip was pulled from a number of newspapers.

Gender Variance: A Primer offers a thumbnail on the transgender community, explaining what it is and who it covers, from Gender Education and Advocacy.

GLBTQ Youth is a fact sheet available online and in print, from Advocates for Youth: Suite 200, 1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005; Phone: 202–347–5700.

Hot Seat Questions About Transgendered People gives short, snappy answers to all those irritating yet inevitable questions reporters like to ask transgendered people.