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Sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) include a range of techniques used by a variety of mental health professionals and non-professionals with the goal of changing sexual orientation (APA, 2009) or any of its parts. SOCE was a term developed by the APA Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation (2009) to describe ...
- Banning Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
Efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation or...
- A growing number of states ban sexual orientation change efforts
APA has expressed concern about sexual orientation change...
- Research on sexual orientation change efforts: A summary.
Scientific research indicates that variation in same-sex...
- Banning Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
Efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity may encourage people to hide these aspects of their identity, which can lead to mental health problems such as depression, sexual problems, low self-esteem, and suicide (Beckstead and Morrow, 2004; Blosnich, et al., 2020; Dehlin, et al., 2015; Green, et al., 2020; Ryan et ...
Sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts (SOGICE)—sometimes called “conversion” or “reparative” therapy—refer to practices that attempt to repress and alter a person’s sexual orientation from lesbian, gay, or bisexual to heterosexual or gender identity from transgender to cisgender. Major professional organizations ...
- Jessica N Fish, Stephen T Russell
- 2020
Aug 9, 2021 · Background: Voluntary therapeutic interventions to reduce unwanted same-sex sexuality are collectively known as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE). Currently almost all evidence addressing the contested question whether SOCE is effective or safe consists of anecdotes or very small sample qualitative studies of persons who currently ...
- 10.12688/f1000research.51209.2
- 2021
- Version 2. F1000Res. 2021; 10: 222.
Mar 10, 2020 · APA has expressed concern about sexual orientation change efforts since 1997, as have many other medical and mental health organizations. Evidence shows that sexual orientation efforts can lead to negative outcomes, including treatment related anxiety, suicidal ideation, depression, impotence and relationship dysfunction.
Jan 8, 2021 · Background. Sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts (SOGIECE) are a set of scientifically discredited practices that aim to deny and suppress the sexual orientations, gender identities, and/or gender expressions of sexual and gender minorities (SGM).
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Scientific research indicates that variation in same-sex sexual orientation is normal and part of the spectrum of human sexuality. Despite this evidence, sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) continue to be provided to adults, children, and adolescents. This chapter reviews the scientific evidence to date on SOCE. Most of the research and practice is based on sources from the United States ...
