Sexual orientation change efforts

Before 1973, homosexuality was treated as a mental disorder, a developmental adaptation, or a disease by mental health professionals. Various forms of sexual orientation change efforts(SOCE) therapy or conversion therapy, including "electric shocks," would be used to treat or cure the disorder. However, in 1973, homosexuality was declassified as a disease by the American Psychiatric Association and removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(Vider). Nonetheless, although homosexuality isn 't considered a disease anymore, the treatment, SOCE therapy, is still in full effect today.Now this is a perfectly fine fact for consenting adults who wish to engage in unnecessary psychoanalytic treatment, yet should a child…

Change in DSM In 1973 a historic advance in social justice took place and homosexuality was removed as a mental disorder from the DSM. The APA then acknowledged that not only was homosexuality not a mental illness, but there was a need for revision in the practice guidelines and ethical standards pertaining to sexual orientation. The APA recognized that mental health practitioners would need to go about offering services to people who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual in a very different…

psychologists give to their patients that aim to change an individual’s sexual orientation, or sexual identity from homosexual to heterosexual. Many have made complaints about conversion therapy. For example, that it is harmful not only to the adults who attend this program but especially harmful to the minors who are forced into this program by their parents. There have been cases where patients who attended conversion therapy have complained about loneliness, depression, social withdrawal,…

The Pseudoscience of Conversion Therapy RaeLynn Barott Minnesota State University, Mankato The Pseudoscience of Conversion Therapy Conversion Therapy, or Reparative Therapy, includes therapeutic efforts to change an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression (Jadwin-Cakmak, 2015). These therapeutic efforts are intended to stop an individual from being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) based on the premise that being LGBT is a psychological…

understand sexual orientation better, Diamond concluded. She thought that more attention to these processes would help us understand how and why people show separate patterns of desires, and love for same-gender and other gender partners over their lifetime. (2003) Dr. Doreen Kimura (1996) thought sexual orientation to be associated with cognitive abilities. She reviewed studies that related to sex and sexual orientation, on the influence of sex hormones on cognitive patterns, and important…

are in unfit to care for children due to their sexual orientation. In the American Foster care system, LGBT couples are viewed as inadequate caregivers to children due to the claims of people who disagree with their differing sexual…

safety of my child. Although society has progressed over the past several decades, people still hold these beliefs that keep certain social groups such as transsexuals immiserated in our culture. In a perfect society, we as a collective unit should treat these individuals with the same courtesy that is given to any other individual. A person’s sexual orientation shouldn’t create these forms of social inequality as it reinforces the notion of ignorance and bigotry of our contemporary society. I’d…

LGBT/queer communities does not exclude the impact of African-Americans that identified as such. Recovering the history of these figures marks importance in the practice of LGBT/queer history central to the United States as it uncovers the separate, but togetherness, of their cultures. This exposes the values and significance of culture, sexuality, and LGBT/queer representation. The history of gender and sexual identity as two different things is deeply rooted in their social construction. The…

During the early stages of foetal development, differentiation of sexual organs begins. When a male foetus is developing, a cascading of genes, beginning with the sex determining gene (the SRY) on the Y-chromosome, causes the foetal gonads to develop; whereas female development depends on an absence of androgens (Bao & Swaab, 2011). Once the process of differentiation of sexual organs is complete, sexual differentiation of the developing brain commences by the permanent organising effects of sex…

subject of homosexuality. Whether in the form of civil rights, the gay marriage debate, homosexuals adopting, homophobia or discrimination, this controversial topic has many factions, and given the current high profile of gay marriage, the issue surrounding homosexuality in our society is far form over. Another facet of the debate, however, is not on radar of most people in our society. That topic is over the use of sexual orientation conversion efforts (SOCE), which some believe is a method…