Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care

by Ellen C. Perrin

Book Overview

Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care serves as a resource for child health care professionals including pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, pediatric psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, and social workers. The issues of sexuality and sexual orientation now generate great interest among those who treat children. This volume describes the effects of stigmatization on non-heterosexual physicians, patients, and students,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306467615
• ISBN13: 9780306467615
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent and much-needed resource!

This is a comprehensively researched and well-written book that provides a much-needed resource to all in the health care community as well as child health policy makers. It provides a single source of detailed information on sexuality in children and adolescents that is not otherwise available. It provides the reader with a practical understanding of the struggles of being nonheterosexual and the negative impact of stigmatization. It provides balanced discussions of sometimes controversial subjects that are a welcome science-based perspective. Franklin Trimm, MD, FAAP.

A valuable addition to the pediatric literature

This book is a must read for health care professionals, educators, and others who work with children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Perrin wonderfully reviews the scientific & medical literature on sexual orientation, children, youths, & families, as well as the physical health, mental health, and social justice reasons that we should all care about that literature. I will be a better pediatrician to all of the children & families in my care for having read this book.

A Must Read for Anyone Working with Children and Families

This book presents ways in which health care workers can and should serve children and families in which there are issues of sexual orientation and identity. The concerns may involve the child, the parent(s) or both. This is an area that is important for all health care workers to understand in order to best serve all kinds of familes.