The LGBTQ+ Psychotherapy Treatment Planner (eBook)

J. M. Evosevich, Timothy J. Bruce, Arthur E. Jongsma (Autoren)

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2025 | 2. Auflage
565 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-394-29652-1 (ISBN)

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Evidence-based best practices to support practitioners in LGBTQ+ mental health care

This second edition of the LGBTQ+ Psychotherapy Treatment Planner updates and expands upon the first edition to reflect the evolving understanding and best practices in LGBTQ+ mental health care. New chapters, expanded appendices, and the inclusion of detailed objectives and interventions grounded in evidence-based practices have been added to enhance the comprehensiveness and relevance of this resource.

Each chapter is structured to guide clinicians through objectives and interventions appropriate for these various levels, emphasizing a continuum of care approach. Readers will find insights on:

• Developing long-term coping strategies to counter and overcome discrimination experienced by LGBTQ+ persons seeking approval for and parenting a child
• Reducing or eliminating symptoms of psychological distress (e.g., anxiety and hopelessness) related to aging and life transitions
• Learning and implementing coping skills that result in a reduction of anxiety and worry, and improved daily functioning

The second edition of the LGBTQ+ Psychotherapy Treatment Planner is an informative, practical, and indispensable guide for clinicians to create thoughtful, comprehensive, culturally responsive, and equity-focused treatment plans

J.M. EVOSEVICH, PH.D. has over 35 years of experience specializing in individual therapy, couples therapy, and relationship coaching for the LGBTQ+ community. A published author and frequent conference speaker, he provides culturally responsive, evidence-based tele-therapy and coaching that address mental health, substance use, and relationship well-being.

TIMOTHY J. BRUCE, PH.D., is Professor emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

ARTHUR E. JONGSMA, JR., PH.D, created the bestselling PracticePlanners series. He has provided professional mental health services to both inpatient and outpatient clients for approximately 50 years. He was the Founder and Director of Psychological Consultants, a group of private practice in Michigan, for 25 years.

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INTRODUCTION

ABOUT PRACTICEPLANNERS® TREATMENT PLANNERS

Pressure from third‐party payers, accrediting agencies, and other outside parties has increased the need for clinicians to quickly produce effective, high‐quality treatment plans. Treatment Planners provide all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the needs of most third‐party payers and state and federal review agencies.

Each Treatment Planner:

• Saves you hours of time‐consuming paperwork.
• Offers the freedom to develop customized treatment plans.
• Includes over 1000 clear statements describing the behavioral manifestations of each relational problem and provides long‐term goals, short‐term objectives, and clinically tested treatment options.
• Has an easy‐to‐use reference format that helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM‐5/DSM‐5‐TR™) diagnosis.

As with the rest of the books in the PracticePlanners® series, our aim is to clarify, simplify, and accelerate the treatment planning process, so you spend less time on paperwork and more time with your clients.

ABOUT THIS SECOND EDITION OF THE LGBTQ+ PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNER (formerly The Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy Treatment Planner)

This second edition of the LGBTQ+ Psychotherapy Treatment Planner has been improved in many ways:

• Updated with new Objectives and Interventions consistent with identified evidence‐based practices
• An expanded and updated list of self‐help books and other resources written to the consumer of therapy titled Bibliotherapy Suggestions (Appendix A)
• A new appendix of recommended books, chapters, manuals, and other “how‐to” clinical resources written for professionals titled Professional Resources (Appendix B)
• A new appendix with LGBTQ+1‐affirmative resources for clients and professionals titled National Resources (Appendix C)
• A new appendix with objectives and interventions reflective of the recovery model of mental health care titled Recovery Model Objectives and Interventions (Appendix D)
• A new appendix alphabetically listing assessment measures, scales, and other instruments as well as information to help locate them titled Cited and Commonly Used Assessment Instruments and Their Sources (Appendix E)
• A new online appendix of references to empirical work supporting the evidence‐based content found in this Planner titled References to Empirical Support for Evidence‐Based Content (online Appendix F)
• More suggested homework assignments integrated into the Interventions
• The addition of new chapters on Immigration Issues, Political/Religious Persecution, Same‐Sex Marriage, SCOE Recovery, Sex Work, and Transgender. Several original chapters were combined with contemporary problems such as HIV/AIDS and incorporated into the Sexually Transmitted Infections chapter. Transphobia was added to the internalized homophobia chapter. Several chapter titles were changed to incorporate the changes in society and field of psychology over the past 25 years when the original planner was written.
• Integrated DSM‐5/DSM‐5‐TR diagnostic labels and codes into the Diagnostic Suggestions section of each chapter

Evidence‐based practice (EBP) is steadily becoming the standard of care in mental health care as it has in medical health care. Professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association (APA), National Association of Social Workers, and the American Psychiatric Association as well as consumer organizations such the National Alliance on Mental Illness have all endorsed the use of EBP. In some practice settings, EBP is becoming mandated. Some third‐party payers require the use of EBP for reimbursement. The call for evidence and accountability is being increasingly sounded. So, what is EBP and how is its use facilitated by this Planner?

Borrowing from the Institute of Medicine's definition (Institute of Medicine, 2001), the APA has defined EBP as “the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences” (APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence‐Based Practice, 2006). Consistent with this definition, we have identified those psychological treatments with the best available supporting evidence, added Objectives and Interventions consistent with them in the pertinent chapters, and identified these with this symbol: . Every chapter in this Planner contains objectives and interventions reflecting the role of building a good therapeutic relationship, which are consistent with EBT and indicated by the EBT symbol. This is also the case for objectives and interventions reflecting the use of Motivational Interviewing for addressing suboptimal motivation for change. In the Table of Contents, however, the EBT symbol appears only next to chapter titles in which EBT content appears and goes beyond the above two uses (i.e., building a good therapeutic relationship and using Motivational Interviewing). As most practitioners know, research has shown that although these treatment methods may have demonstrated efficacy, factors such as the individual psychologist (e.g., Wampold, 2001), the treatment relationship (e.g., Norcross, 2019), and the client (e.g., Bohart & Tallman, 1999) are also vital contributors to optimizing a client's response to psychotherapy. As noted by the APA, “Comprehensive evidence‐based practice will consider all of these determinants and their optimal combinations” (APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence‐Based Practice, 2006, p. 275). For more information and instruction on constructing evidence‐based psychotherapy treatment plans, see our 12 DVD‐based training videos titled Evidence‐Based Psychotherapy Treatment Planning (Jongsma & Bruce, 2010–2012).

The sources we used to identify the evidence‐based treatments integrated into this Planner are multiple and, we believe, high quality. They include rigorous meta‐analyses; current critical, expert reviews; as well as evidence‐based practice guideline recommendations. Examples of specific sources include the Cochrane Collaboration reviews; the work of the Society of Clinical Psychology identifying research‐supported psychological treatments; evidence‐based treatment reviews (e.g., David et al., 2018; Nathan & Gorman, 2015), as well as critical analyses of the process through which evidence‐based practice is defined (e.g., Dimidjian, 2019; Norcross et al., 2017). EBP guidelines informing the selection process include those from the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the United Kingdom, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to name a few.

Although sources may vary slightly in the criteria they use for judging levels of empirical support, we favored those that use more rigorous criteria, typically requiring demonstration of efficacy through randomized controlled trials or clinical replication series, good experimental methodology, and independent replication. Our approach was to evaluate these various sources and include those treatments supported by the highest level of evidence and for which there was consensus across most of these sources. In addition to these references to empirical support, we have also included a Professional Resources appendix. Professional resources are books, manuals, and other resources for clinicians that describe the details of the application, or the “how‐to,” of the treatment approaches described in a chapter. To maintain the consistency and integrity of the evidence‐based content in the PracticePlanners Series, some of the evidence‐based content in this Planner is adapted from other Planners in the series including the sixth editions of the Adult and Adolescent Treatment Planners. Although this does build some redundancy across treatment planners in the series that provide this content, we felt that the convenience of having it readily available in each planner supersedes other, more resource‐consuming, options for accessing it. Lastly, identifying EBPs lends itself to defining clients' problems by diagnosis. This is, in part, because the inclusion/exclusion criteria in most clinical trials are diagnostic. When chapters in our Planner are defined by a diagnosis, it facilitates identifying and communicating evidence‐based treatments and their standard components/emphases. When they are not, as with many of the presenting problems clinicians see, it limits our ability to say this is evidence based for this particular nondiagnostic issue because it has often not been studied directly as defined. In these cases, we try to offer objectives and interventions that align with best practice guidelines, and existing empirical evidence for the objective and intervention in question (e.g., the use of Motivational Interviewing...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: PracticePlanners
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Schlagworte: lbgtq therapy • LGBTQ aging • LGBTQ anxiety • LGBTQ coping mechanism • LGBTQ depression • LGBTQ evidence based practices • LGBTQ hospitalization • LGBTQ interventions • LGBTQ mental care • LGBTQ mental health • LGBTQ practitioner
• ISBN-10: 1-394-29652-5 / 1394296525
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-29652-1 / 9781394296521