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Not by Convention: Working with People on the Sexual and Gender Continuum

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We chose the title of this chapter with clear intent. How many LGB, LGBT, and LGBTQ scholarly works have you read in the pursuit of understanding of how gender and sexuality develop through the lifecycle, affect physical and mental health and well-being, and impact social discourse, policy, and law? In January of 2013, the New York Times published an article entitled, “Generation LGBTQIA,” reminding us how many light years ahead our younger generations are in moving beyond traditional, dichotomous categories and living life on the gender and sexual continuums.

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Dr. Liaw and Dr. Janssen would like to express their gratitude for the thoughtful, brilliant work of their research assistants, Elizabeth Glaeser, Jillian Guskin, and Elizabeth Michael.

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Liaw, K.RL., Janssen, A. (2014). Not by Convention: Working with People on the Sexual and Gender Continuum. In: Parekh, R. (eds) The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8918-4_4

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