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Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity
Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity | Michael Beattie, Penny Lenihan, Robin Dundas
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For practitioners working with issues surrounding gender identity, this book provides the additional tools and insights needed to help them build a therapeutic relationship with their client. Including case studies, interactive exercises and suggested reading lists, it forms a practical toolbox that any counsellor of gender issues can utilise.
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Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity | Michael Beattie, Penny Lenihan, Robin Dundas
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"For cisgender readers, imagine how life would be if you needed to navigate through a complex legal and medical process simply to have your identity recognised - to have to put at least part of your ability to live an authentic life in the hands of others, of professionals, of a panel of people whom you might never meet...Think about how you would be required to give up power that you might automatically take for granted."

Bookwomble Reflection exercise for cisgender counselors on the anxieties and stresses involved in negotiating the obstacles presently in place for trans people to be legally recognised as their actual gender. 4y
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"A core part of...'orthodox masculinity' has its bedrock in not doing, saying or being anything that might be seen as feminine... The first rule of being a man is 'no sissy stuff'. Instead, these sexist and misogynistic constructs at the heart of orthodox masculine gender performance are understood as helping shore up the theory of men's 'natural' dominance over effeminate men and women. ??

Bookwomble "... Men who fail to live up to the standards set...are excluded or marginalised to the extent of their transgression. The fear of the loss of power and male privilege lies in the rejection of masculinity's apparent binary and complementary opposite, femininity.” 4y
GingerAntics Sad, but true. It‘s amazing the lengths men will go to in order to prevent the loss of this label of “man” instead of seeing it as they‘re actually identity. 4y
Bookwomble @GingerAntics The pressure to conform can be hard to break away from. 4y
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GingerAntics It absolutely can be. I don‘t know when or why males were told their masculinity was not an identity, but a perception, but I‘d like to go back in history and slap that person. 4y
Weaponxgirl Thanks for posting this. For me a big part of my feminism has been trying to support men to be emotional and open. I reject a lot of the roles that I‘m “meant” to be filling and I want to encourage others to be able to do the same when it‘s healthy for them. 4y
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