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- Sexual orientation is a part of individual identity that includes “a person’s sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction” (APA, 2015a, p. 862).
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Sexual orientation can be conceptualized first by the degree to which a person feels sexual and emotional attraction; some parallel terms are “sexual,” “demisexual” (or “gray-asexual” or “gray-A”), and “asexual” (see The Asexual Visibility & Education Network, n.d.).
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sexual minority persons. Previous guidelines on psychological prac-tice with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients have been used nationally and internationally in practice, training, and to inform public policy. APA’s Office on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity have trans - lated previous versions of guidelines into Arabic, Chinese, Czech,
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Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Person. Approved as APA Policy by the Council of Representatives, February 26-28, 2021. Report of the APA Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation.
This article provides an executive summary of the American Psychological Association (APA)-approved Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Sexual Minority Persons (American Psychological Association, APA Task Force on Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons, 2021).
The research on SOCE published since APA’s (2009) task force report and resolution has continued to support the conclusions that former participants in SOCE look back on those experiences as harmful to them and that there is no evidence of sexual orientation change.
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Oct 29, 2008 · The answer from research is clear: sexual and gender identities (including gender identity, gender-role behavior, and sexual orientation) develop in much the same way among children of lesbian mothers as they do among children of heterosexual parents.
Sexual minority persons are a diverse population inclusive of lesbian, gay, bi+ (e.g., bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid), and asexual sexual orientations. The Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons provide psychologists with: (1) a frame of reference for affirmative psychological practice (e.g., intervention ...
