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Book SynopsisBoth a resource for those professionally engaged in work with sexual and gender minorities and a comprehensive text for use in courses on working with vulnerable youth populations, Growing into Resilience is a timely and transdisciplinary book.
Table of ContentsPreface: Remembering the Vriend Decision Part I: Steeling Life in the Face of Adversity InterText I - Mara: Learning to Own Gay InterText II - Vincent: I'm Passing 1. Making It Better NOW for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth InterText III - Sean: I'm a Man, Yes I Am 2. Gender Beautiful: Living in the Fullness of One's Affirmed Gender Identity and True Gender Self InterText IV - Larissa: My Heritage is a Big Thing 3. Camp fYrefly: fostering, Youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah! InterText V - Mark: Being the Boy I Am InterText VI - Paul: Bringing People Out of Silence 4. Making and Implementing Policies to Protect Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Schooling and Healthcare Part II: From At Risk to At Promise (Chapters with Kristopher Wells) InterText VII - John: Learning to Own Gay 5. The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education InterText VIII - Sam: It's Like Piranhas, Man 6. Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High-School Students InterText IX - Jon: Born to Be, Deserving to be Happy in My Own Skin 7. The Mental and Sexual Health Nexus in the Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth InterText X - David: Stealth, But Living Trans Fulltime 8. Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation of Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian Schools Appendix: Growing into Resilience: An Emergent Research Typology of a Dynamic Process from the 1980s into the Present Moment
