Enhancing Sexual Health, Self-Identity and Wellbeing among Men Who Have Sex With Men (eBook)

A Guide for Practitioners

Rusi Jaspal (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
216 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78450-636-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A thorough insight, incorporating and evaluating the latest research, into why enhancing mental health in men who have sex with men (MSM) can improve their sexual health and general wellbeing. Using tenets from Identity Processing Theory the book offers practical advice and strategies to improve interventions for MSM whose sexual health is at risk.

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By analysing research into links between low psychological wellbeing and sexual risk-taking behaviours that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM), this book demonstrates what impact social and psychological interventions could have on MSM at risk of poor sexual outcomes. At the heart of the book is Identity Process Theory, co-developed by the author, a social psychological theory of identity construction, threat and coping. The book considers the emerging debates in MSM's health, such as the use of Grindr and 'chemsex', and also explores the socio-structural factors, such as homophobia and stigma, that threaten the self-identity of MSM. The book offers principles and techniques from this theory that can be used as an effective intervention and therapeutic model with MSM to build more positive identities and reduce sexual risk-taking.

Autor

Rusi Jaspal is Professor of Psychology and Sexual Health, Deputy Head of Research for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Mary Seacole Research Centre at De Montfort University Leicester, UK.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. 2. Sexual health and HIV among men who have sex with men. 3. Social psychological approaches to sexual health promotion. 4. A new lens: Identity process theory. 5. Case study 1: Safeguarding psychological wellbeing among MSM. 6. Case study 2: Developing effective sexual health interventions for MSM. 7. Case study 3: Promoting lasting behaviour change in MSM. 8. Implications and conclusions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2018
• Vorwort: Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell, Dr Laura Waters
• Zusatzinfo: 5 B&W figures
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: AIDS • BAME • Bullying • chemsex • Child Abuse • Clinic • condoms • Counselling • Counsellors • Drugs • Faith • gay sauna • gay scene • gay social networking applications • Gender Diversity • Grindr • Healthcare • HIV • homonegativity • Homophobia • Homosexuality • Identity Process Theory • internalised homophobia • Mental Health • MSM • Muslim men • Prep • Promiscuity • Religion • self-esteem • Sex • sexual compulsivity • sexual risk-taking • social cognitive theory • Social Psychology • STDs • Stigma • Therapist • therapy • Wellbeing
• ISBN-10: 1-78450-636-2 / 1784506362
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78450-636-0 / 9781784506360