NEW BOOK on lgbt youth a COMPREHENSIVE PRIMER

FOR Families, Teachers and Professionals

“THIS BOOK IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT…In Coming Out, Coming In, Linda Goldman provides us with a comprehensive primer for psychologists clinicians, educators, and families to help us dispel the myths, combat misinformation, and teach us how to provide the care, respect, and unconditional love that all youth deserve, regardless of differences.”

— From the forward by Jody. M Huckaby, Executive Director, PFLAG National

March XX, Washington, DC –The recently released the book Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society, is a comprehensive new resource for parents, teachers, and healthcare professionals looking for ways to protect and support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. The book provides resources for understanding the experience and perspective of people growing up gay, and a healthy, positive outlook in a safe school and home environment. With lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth at increased risk for depression, drug use, HIV infection, and suicide attempts, Coming Out, Coming In is a book that should be on the shelf of anyone who cares about LGBT youth.

“As a teacher and counselor in the public school system for 20 years, I witnessed far too much sexual harassment, bullying and victimization that created an unsafe environment filled with emotional and physical abuse,” Goldman said. “We will not stem the bullying epidemic we face without the guidance, modeling, and absolute support of the adult world,” said Goldman, “By writing this book, I hope to provide parents, schools and all those who work with young people the information, inspiration and tools to create supportive and nurturing environments for our LGBT children,” Goldman concluded.

In the book, Goldman deals first-hand with the issues plaguing LGBT youth, drawing on both her professional and personal experience as a school guidance counselor, child and adolescent therapist and parent of a gay son. Coming Out, Coming In is written from both the teen’s and the parents’ perspective and is a highly accessible resource for diverse audiences.

The book is organized into four main parts, containing twelve chapters total.

Part 1. Understanding gay youth: Society’s mirror

Part 2. Interventions with LGBT young people: Supporting a healthy outlook

Part 3: Possibilities for LGBT participation in daily life: Evolving relationships, and communities

Part 4: Creating equality in society: Resources and supports

Goldman includes a wealth of information, with tips, exercises, anecdotes, and an extensive bibliography full of additional resources; anyone working with youth is sure to find what they need.

About the Author

Linda Goldman is a certified grief therapist who has worked as a teacher and counselor in the Baltimore County school system for nearly 20 years. She works with children, teenagers, families with prenatal loss, and grieving adults, and currently maintains a private therapy practice focusing on issues of bereavement and parenting gay youth in Chevy Chase, MD. She also teaches on the adjunct faculty of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She teaches the course on “Working with LGBT Youth” at Johns Hopkins Graduate School, the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the Child Welfare Administration. She has written many articles, including Healing Magazine’s Helping the Grieving Child in the Schools, The Bullying Epidemic, Creating Safe Havens for Gay Youth in Schools (2006) and Parenting Gay Youth (in-press 2008).

She has appeared on the radio show Helping Gay Youth: Parents Perspective (2008) and has testified at a hearing before the MD Joint House and Senate Priorities Hearing for Marriage Equality (2007) and the MD Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee for the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act (2008). . . . .Linda contributed on the Public Broadcasting Series Program “Keeping Kids Healthy” on Children and Grief which aired in October, 2006. She is the recipient of the “The Tenth Global Concern of Human Life Award 2007”.

 

For more information go to www.childrensgrief.net

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