Career Counseling GLB

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Career Counseling G/L/B

• Under-estimated population
• Hetersexual bias
• Gender-free language
• G/L/B identity formation
• Identify consultants
• Local support networks

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Counseling issues

• Stereotyping
• Job stereotyping (challenge by counselor)
• Homophobia
• Community fears
• Internalized homophobia
• Learned behaviors, adolescent challenge
• Heterosexist assumptions

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G/L/B identity

• Model of homosexual identity formation (HIF) by
  Cass (1979, 1984) includes
• Identity confusion
• Identity comparison
• Identity tolerance
• Identity acceptance
• Identity pride
• Identity synthesis