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We were delighted to see all of the major psychological and therapeutic bodies signing the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy which was launched at the Department of Health earlier this year (UKCP, 2015). This little-read document makes it an ethical obligation that therapists are adequately trained to work with requests for change to clients’ sexuality (and we hope to see gender added to this soon). To meet that obligation, training organisations will need to develop a curriculum that embeds gender and sexual diversity issues throughout the syllabus as well as ensuring some specialist and specific material that stands separate to it.
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Handbook of sexual orientation and gender diversity in counseling and psychotherapy
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Sexual and Gender Diversity within Family Therapy
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Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy
Sage Handbook for Counselling & Psychotherapy, 2023
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