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Nurturing Queer Youth: family therapy transformed. Linda Stone Fish and Rebecca G. Harvey. W.W. Norton, New York, 2005. pp. 257. ISBN 0‐393‐70455‐6

Nurturing Queer Youth: family therapy transformed. Linda Stone Fish and Rebecca G. Harvey. W.W.... ‘Nurturing queerness is about valuing queer youth, not in spite of their queerness but because if it’ (p. 214). In ‘Nurturing Queer Youth,’ Stone Fish and Harvey present a timely and thoughtful challenge to fellow family therapists. The key contributions that these authors make include: (i) challenging therapists to work with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) youth in an explicitly queerfriendly way, (ii) seeking to incorporate concepts from queer theory into family therapy, and (iii) sharing case studies that show clearly how one might nurture queer youth through family therapy. The authors do remarkably well at addressing this difficult topic, with a sincere and heart-warming approach. This book points out that there is a relative lack of work on ‘minority sexuality’ within family therapy, compared with other mental health fields, and that most authors who have sought to address this lack have been concerned with adults. A focus on youth is seen as crucial not only because this represents a gap in the literature but because studies throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s have shown that queer individuals have been self-identifying at progressively younger ages. This suggests a growing need for families (and family therapists) to be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Infant and Child Development Wiley

Nurturing Queer Youth: family therapy transformed. Linda Stone Fish and Rebecca G. Harvey. W.W. Norton, New York, 2005. pp. 257. ISBN 0‐393‐70455‐6

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Infant and Child Development , Volume 17 (2) – Mar 1, 2008
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Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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10.1002/icd.512
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‘Nurturing queerness is about valuing queer youth, not in spite of their queerness but because if it’ (p. 214). In ‘Nurturing Queer Youth,’ Stone Fish and Harvey present a timely and thoughtful challenge to fellow family therapists. The key contributions that these authors make include: (i) challenging therapists to work with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) youth in an explicitly queerfriendly way, (ii) seeking to incorporate concepts from queer theory into family therapy, and (iii) sharing case studies that show clearly how one might nurture queer youth through family therapy. The authors do remarkably well at addressing this difficult topic, with a sincere and heart-warming approach. This book points out that there is a relative lack of work on ‘minority sexuality’ within family therapy, compared with other mental health fields, and that most authors who have sought to address this lack have been concerned with adults. A focus on youth is seen as crucial not only because this represents a gap in the literature but because studies throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s have shown that queer individuals have been self-identifying at progressively younger ages. This suggests a growing need for families (and family therapists) to be

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