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Happy Together: Thriving as a Same-Sex Couple in Your Family, Workplace, and Community

Filled with positive, life-affirming stories and coping strategies, this resource will help same-sex couples deal effectively with the daily challenges and stresses of homophobia within their family, workplace, and community.

Many same-sex couples are stigmatized because of their relationship and experience significant stress. In every life contextfamily, work, neighborhood, religious communities, and in social and legal contextssame-sex couples have to make decisions about disclosure, how to respond to prejudice, and how to cope with negative feelings about themselves and their experiences. This book helps couples work together to identify, develop, and use their strengths and skills to successfully navigate these issues and flourish. Tough tasks like confronting prejudice will never be easy, but thanks to the stories, tools, and resources presented in this book, readers will learn to manage such situations in a positive way.

Learning activities in each chapter guide couples to become more aware of the causes of stress in their relationship, and to take positive actions to strengthen their commitment. Readers will learn how to cultivate the strengths of their LGBTQ identities, assert appropriate boundaries, create supportive relationships with others, and contribute authentically to their families and communities. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Mar 2015
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781433819537

About Ellen D. B. RiggleSharon S. RostoskySharon Scales Rostosky

Sharon S. Rostosky PhD completed her doctorate in counseling psychology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1998. She is a licensed psychologist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. She joined the counseling psychology program at the University of Kentucky in 1999 where she is currently a professor and director of training. Her research published in more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented in numerous workshops for professional and general audiences focuses on minority stress and well-being in individuals who identify as lesbian gay bisexual transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) and in same-sex couples. She was honored in 2010 with the APA Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) Social Justice Award.  Ellen D. B. Riggle PhD is a professor in the departments of Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science at the University of Kentucky. She is the coeditor of Sexual Identity on the Job and Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process. She has also published more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. Dr. Riggle has conducted research lectured and presented workshops on the impact of stigma on sexual minorities legal status issues for same-sex couples and the importance of positive well-being for LGBTQ individuals.   Dr. Riggle and Dr. Rostosky's 2012 book A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being was the winner of the APA Division 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity) Distinguished book award.   More information about the work of Dr. Riggle and Dr. Rostosky can be found on their website PrismResearch.org.  

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