Position Statement on Therapies Focused on Attempts to Change Sexual Orientation (Reparative or Conversion Therapies)

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ID24022257
AuthorsJack Drescher (0000-0003-1788-3850), Kenneth J Zucker (0000-0001-5313-6401)
Year2013
Pages51-56
Publication date2013-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEx-Gay Research (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203057414-11
OpenAlexW3114717717
ISBN9780203057414
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In December of 1998, the Board of Trustees issued a position state­ ment that the American Psychiatric Association opposes any psychi­ atric treatment, such as “reparative” or conversion therapy, which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental dis­ order or based upon the a priori assumption that a patient should change his or her sexual homosexual orientation. In doing so, the APA joined many other professional organizations that either oppose or are critical of “reparative” therapies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, The American Counseling As­ sociation, and the National Association of Social Workers.1

Business · Family medicine · Orientation (vector space) · Political science · Position (finance) · Position statement · Psychoanalysis · Sexual orientation · Statement (logic) · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy · Sociology and Education Studies

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