Description
By Tyler Traister, Roland Brühe, Kathrin Kürsten, Andreas Pfister
The current LGBTQ+ caring specialist book focuses on the health needs of LGBTQ+ individuals and discusses how diversity-sensitive, respectful, and unbiased nursing care can succeed.
The practice book for diversity-sensitive care of LGBTQ+ people
- clarifies basic terms on LGBTQ+, explains the importance of concepts of sexual orientation and gender identity for practice and documentation, and imparts communicative and cultural competencies
- Describes LGBTQ+ health related topics such as health inequality, stigma and discrimination, substance intake and abuse, and health behaviors of LGBTQ+ individuals.
- Describes aspects of care for LGBTQ+ individuals in medicine, surgery, and psychosocial health regarding communication, freedom of prejudice, medical history and physical examination, and transgender health and hormone therapy.
- Explains special features of caring for LGBTQ+ people in childhood and adolescence as well as adults and the elderly with practical examples
- Outlines a historical outline and explains backgrounds of the LGBTQ+ movement including the persecution of LGBTQ individuals under National Socialism and the development of paragraph 175 in Germany.
- Illuminates the health of LGBTQ+ people in Switzerland.
- provides additional resources regarding advocacy and counseling centres, provides guidance on policies and legal issues, provides explanations of inclusive living environments, as well as the integration of LGBTQ content in education, training and study.
Product Details
- Publisher : Hogrefe AG (9 Dec. 2024)
- Language : German
- Perfect Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 3456863292
- ISBN-13 : 978-3456863290
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