Submitted by Yvette Ipsaralexi, library technician | Vancouver Coastal Health Library Services
VCH Library Services has resources to support your work with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and Two Spirit (LGBTQ2S) patients and clients. Check out some of these titles:
- Asking the right questions 2 : talking with clients about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counselling and addiction settings
- Feeling queer or queer feelings? : radical approaches to counselling sex, sexualities, and genders
- Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer psychology : an introduction
- Mental health issues for sexual minority women : redefining women’s mental health
- Nurturing queer youth : family therapy transformed
- Social work practice with transgender and gender variant youth
- The therapist’s notebook for lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients : homework, handouts, and activities for use in psychotherapy
- The transgender child : a handbook for families and professionals
- Transgender emergence: therapeutic guidelines for working with gender-variant people and their families
- Diagnosing difference [DVD]
See our online catalogue for details or visit our page on VCH Connect. Contact us directly at VCHLibraryServices@vch.ca.
More about VCH and the LGBTQ2S community
VCH’s Prism program is dedicated to LGBTQ2S wellness. Prism is a clinical, education, information and referral service for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and Two Spirit (LGBTQ2S) communities.
Prism refers individuals to LGBTQ2S groups, counselling, resource information and services within VCH and around the community.
We also support staff at VCH to increase skills and knowledge in working with members of LGBTQ2S populations through training, networking and clinical supervision. In addition, we have a Community of Practice site for social service providers. Please email prism@vch.ca for an invite.
For more information, check out our website at www.vch.ca/prism or contact Prism Coordinator Nikki Gravelle.