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Thousands of LGBTQ youth are forced into harmful "treatments" with devastating mental health consequences. This volume explores the history, effects, and danger of so-called conversion "therapy,"Here is a compendium of recent scholarship and clinical work on this controversial topic, including the important ethical questions involved. Because such treatment is not actually therapeutic, it is now more accurately referred to as sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) or gender identity change efforts (GICE). Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, considerable research showed SOCE to be not only ineffective, but also harmful. As a result of these findings, professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association have denounced the practice and recommended affirmative, supportive treatment instead.Although SOCE has been widely discredited, it remains legal in most states and continues to be practiced with lesbian, gay, and bisexual children and adolescents. .
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