In this practical guide, Dr. Mark Yarhouse, the leading Christian expert on LGTBQ+ concerns, offers parents godly wisdom and answers to their biggest questions about gender identity issues. This reliable, go-to resource will help you initiate honest, informative dialogues with your kids, model biblical conviction with civility and compassion, and more.
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- 2023
- 2022
Helping people navigate gender identity questions today is complex and often polarized work. Filled with assessments, therapeutic tools, and case studies, this practical resource from Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offers mental health professionals a client-centered, open-ended approach that makes room for gender exploration while respecting religious identity.
- 2020
Emerging Gender Identities
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, this book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse gender identities that are being embraced by an increasing number of adolescents.
- 2018
Listening to Sexual Minorities
- 326 pages
- 12 hours of reading
For sexual minority students on Christian college campuses, faith and sexuality can feel in acute tension. Yarhouse, Dean, Stratton, and Lastoria draw on their decades of experience to bring us a longitudinal study into what sexual minorities experience, hope for, and benefit from. Rich with both quantitative and qualitative data, here is an unprecedented opportunity to listen to sexual minorities in their own words.
- 2017
Understanding Gender Dysphoria
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Gender and sexual identity are immensely complicated topics. An expert on human sexuality, Mark Yarhouse offers a Christian perspective of transgender identity that eschews simplistic answers, engages the latest research and listens to people's stories. This accessible guide challenges Christians to rise above the politics and come alongside individuals navigating these issues.
- 2016
Modern Psychopathologies
- 486 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Mark A. Yarhouse, Richard E. Butman and Barrett W. McRay offer this revised companion volume to Modern Psychotherapies, addressing students and mental health professionals who want to sort through contemporary secular understandings of psychopathology in relationship to a Christian worldview.
- 2014
Sexuality and Sex Therapy – A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
- 365 pages
- 13 hours of reading
The field of human sexuality is one of ever-increasing complexity, particularly for Christian therapists and psychologists seeking to be faithful to Scripture, informed by science and sensitive to culture. Mark Yarhouse and Erica Tan offer a survey and appraisal of this field from a Christian perspective, which grounds sex therapy in the biblical affirmation of physicality and the redemptive purposes of human life.
- 2011
Focusing on modern psychotherapies, this updated edition by Stanton Jones and Richard Butman includes new chapters addressing preventative intervention strategies and the role of the Christian psychotherapist. It serves as an essential resource for both therapists and students, offering a thorough examination of contemporary therapeutic practices.