Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth

Julie Tilsen, PhD, is the training director for the International Center for Clinical Excellence and an associate of the Taos Institute. Her work is featured in several counselor training videos including Queer Theory in Action: Theoretical Resources for Therapeutic Conversations, Feedback Informed Treatment, Therapy as Social Construction, and iYouth: Kids, Counseling, and Pop Culture.

• AcknowledgmentsForward, by Sheila McNamee and David NylundGlossary of TermsIntroduction: Queering Your Practice or Practicing Queer?Chapter One: Where Do You Stand? Queer Ethos and AccountabilityChapter Two: Social Construction: I Was Discursively Produced This WayChapter Three: Queer Theory: The Audacity of Difference Chapter Four: Queer as Youth: Resisting the Homonormative of Identity DevelopmentChapter Five: Bringing Sexy Back: Sex Positivity and the Rejection of ErotophobiaChapter Six: iQueer: Popular Culture and Therapeutic MomentsChapter Seven: Bullies, Bible-bangers and Haters: When Others Don’t Want It to Get BetterChapter Eight: Resisting Conclusions: Continuing the Conversation Appendix A: Sex Positive ResourcesReferences Index About the Author

I immediately engaged with this book. It offers reflective exercises, cases, conceptual frameworks, and conversational resources while also introducing its readers to queer theory & cultural studies applied to youth.