Emerging Sexual Identities

Navigating the Landscape with Today’s Youth

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According to a recent Gallup Poll, 20.8% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ+. This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse sexual identities that are embraced by more and more adolescents, and explains how these identities function in the lives of today's youth.

Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer a nuanced, thoughtful, and orthodox approach for readers accompanying those navigating sexual orientation questions, including parents, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, and counselors. They help readers understand the new taxonomy of sexual identities that enable today's youth to account for their sexuality in a more precise way.

Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, Emerging Sexual Identities places this cultural development in historical context and casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse sexual identities.

Contents

Part 1: Understanding Culture and Context
1. A Culture of Sexual Identities
2. Queer Theory
3. How Sexual Identities Come into Being
Part 2: Identifying a Ministry Model
4. Controversies in Ministry
5. A Relational-Narrative Approach to Ministry
6. Narrative Revisited: Minister to Questions Tied to Chapters in a Life Story
7. Engaging Youth: Ministry Recommendations for Care and Counseling
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

The Authors

  1. Mark Yarhouse
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    Mark Yarhouse

    Mark Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, where he also directs the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. An award-winning teacher, psychologist, and researcher, Dr....

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  2. Julia Sadusky
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    Julia Sadusky

    Julia Sadusky (PsyD, Regent University) is a clinical psychologist who owns a private practice in Littleton, Colorado. She is also a consultant, a speaker, and a fellow at the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. Her research experiences and...

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