Gay Mental Healthcare Providers and Patients in the Military

Part I. Background and Introduction

1. Introduction
Elspeth Cameron Ritchie

2. Risk and Resilience: A Review of the Health Literature of Veterans Who Identify as LGBT
Heliana Ramirez, Katharine Bloeser

3. “I Can Finally Be Me…Why Did It Take So Long?” A History of US Military Policy Regarding Sexual and Gender Minority Service
Anonymous

Part II. Personal Experiences

4. The Reservist Perspective: Service Before and During “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
James R. Batterson

5. Being Discharged Under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Martin Chin

6. A Gay Psychologist’s Account of Serving in the Army Reserves and National Guard During Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Clifford Trott

7. Does Anybody Have Anything They Want to Say?
Joseph E. Wise

8. “Family”: Surviving the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Years
Monica Ormeno

9. Here/Queer/Used to It: An Account of a Post-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Mental Health Provider
Jackson Taylor

Part III. Clinical Lessons Learned

10. Ward 52: A Haven for HIV-Positive Military Personnel
Daniel W. Hicks, Steven J. Tulin

11. Creating Safe Spaces: Best Practices for Clinicians Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Military Service Members and Veterans
Heliana Ramirez, Katharine Bloeser

12. Treating LGBT Veterans with Substance Use Disorders: A Gay Psychiatrist’s Experience
Bruce S. Hill

13. “At Least ‘Shipmate’ Is a Gender-Neutral Insult”: A Military Psychiatrist’s Introduction to Transgender Military Service
Anonymous

14. Ethical Issues Regarding LGBT and Intersex Service Members
Edmund G. Howe

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Psychiatry, Public Health, Psychotherapy, General Practice / Family Medicine