@article{1390257,
      recid = {1390257},
      author = {Haldeman, Douglas C.,},
      title = {The case against conversion "therapy" : evidence, ethics,  and alternatives /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)  :},
      abstract = {"Many LGBTQ youth are still forced into harmful  "treatments" with devastating mental health consequences.  This volume explores the history, effects, and danger of  so-called conversion therapy. Because conversion "therapy"  is not actually therapeutic, it is now more accurately  referred to as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) or  gender identity change efforts (GICE). What does the record  show about the efficacy and effects of SOCE and GICE? What  motivates individuals to seek these harmful treatments,  either for themselves or for their children? This book  synthesizes findings from a vast literature base to answer  these and other important questions, in hopes of fully  discrediting SOCE and GICE once and for all. Over the last  four decades, considerable research has showed SOCE to be  not only ineffective, but harmful. As a result of these  findings, professional organizations such as the American  Psychological Association (APA) have denounced the practice  and recommended affirmative, supportive treatment instead.  Although SOCE have been widely discredited, they remain  legal in most states and continue to be practiced with  lesbian, gay, and bisexual children and adolescents.  Furthermore, as the past 20 years have seen an increase in  gender nonconforming and transgender individuals, there has  been a similar rise in efforts to socially reprogram gender  nonconforming children and adolescents. This volume is  grounded in the principle long embraced by the scientific  and healthcare communities-that same-sex attraction and  gender nonconformity are not signs of psychopathology.  Rather, sexual and gender minority individuals should be  supported in embracing their own identities. This  affirmative approach to practice with sexual and gender  minorities is consistent with decades of APA policy and  ethics"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1390257},
}