Not Just a Passing Phase: Social Work with Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People

by Jeane W. Anastas and George Alan Appleby

Book Overview

This comprehensive textbook helps social workers understand and meet the needs of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. It outlines approaches to a range of everyday problems associated with issues of oppression, family acceptance, shame, identity development, HIV disease, and addiction.

The first of the book's three sections provides an overview of what it means to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and locates the text within the ecological model...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231103239
• ISBN13: 9780231103237
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher