Greg Knotts: Greg Knotts is a PhD candidate in Education, at the University of Southern California.
“Helping Gay and Lesbian Youth” focuses on developmental issues, counseling, social policy, and legal issues that affect gay and lesbian youth. Educators, child welfare departments, and mental health agencies could use this collection of articles to know how better to serve gay and lesbian youth. Teachers, guidance counselors, and social workers will find this a practical guide to helping to understand many of the issues surrounding gay and lesbian youth. DeCrescenzo compiles authors who contribute to this discussion from a variety of perspectives, making “Helping Gay and Lesbian Youth” a resource that could be widely used and applicable to a variety of settings. That gay and lesbian youth need help and support is a given understanding in this collection. What the contributors try to do is place a focus on the education of educators and the creation of policy and programmatic responses to the needs of those youth.
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