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In Coming Out in Adulthood, Dr. Ritch C. Savin-Williams demonstrates his approach to working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and same-sex attracted clients. Dr. Savin-Williams sees his therapeutic task as determining whether—and, if so, how—sexuality impacts a client's self-perception, identity, relationships with parents and friends, romantic relationships, career options, and choices among many life issues. Although primarily developmental and psychodynamic, Dr. Savin-Williams broadly employs an eclectic approach, the goal of which is to instill a sense of optimism in a world that remains heterocentric. In this session, Dr. Savin-Williams works with an African American woman in her early 40s who had married and had two children before coming out as lesbian. Dr. Savin-Williams listens as the client recalls raising sons in a gay household, her mother's reaction to her coming out, and ongoing discomfort when in public with her partner.
Dr. Savin-Williams views his task as a therapist as finding out whether and, if so, how clients' sexuality impacts their self-perception and identity, relationships with parents and friends, romantic relationships, and career options and selections among many life issues.
Ritch C. Savin-Williams, PhD, is professor and chair of Human Development at Cornell University. His books on adolescent development include The New Gay Teenager (2005); Mom, Dad. I'm Gay. How Families Negotiate Coming Out (2001); and "…And Then I Became Gay." Young Men's Stories (1998). Dr. Savin-Williams is also a licensed clinical psychologist and has served as an expert witness on same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and Boy Scout court cases. He received the 2001 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, the 2005 Outstanding Book Award from Division 44 (the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues) of the American Psychological Association for The New Gay Teenager, and the 2006 APA Science Directorate's Master Lecture in Developmental Psychology.
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