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Integrating Sexual Orientation in Career Counseling: Acting to End a Form of the Personal‐Career Dichotomy
Author(s) -
Croteau James M.,
Thiel M. J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1993.tb00432.x
Subject(s) - sexual orientation , lesbian , career development , career counseling , psychology , dimension (graph theory) , context (archaeology) , social psychology , applied psychology , psychoanalysis , paleontology , mathematics , pure mathematics , biology
Ignoring sexual orientation in career counseling practice is presented as a specific case of failing to integrate an aspect of the personal dimension into career counseling. Three case examples illustrate specific actions that career counselors must take to integrate this important aspect of the personal dimension into career counseling. The actions suggested involve three general areas: (a) signaling lesbian and gay affirmation in career counseling practice, (b) enhancing the development of a positive gay or lesbian identity in the context of career development work, and (c) recognizing and integrating the reality of anti‐gay stigma in career counseling.