Human Services for Gay People: Clinical and Community Practice

by Michael Shernoff

Human Services for Gay People: Clinical and Community Practice explores the social service and mental health needs of various subpopulations of the diverse lesbian and gay male communities. It demonstrates how multiple issues in the lives of lesbians and gay men force them to seek out social services and presents a sophisticated approach for working with these clients. Educators will find it helpful in meeting the Council on Social Work Education's mandates on gay and lesbian content in social work curricula.

Authors in Human Services for Gay People offer clinical mental health perspectives on providing lesbians and gay men with social services and show how an understanding of clinical issues will enhance these services. These knowledgeable professionals contribute chapters that include discussion of these issues:

Hardcover

First published June 4, 1996

About the author

He attended New York City schools. He graduated from the Harpur College at Binghamton University and in 1977 received a master’s degree in social work from the School of Social Welfare of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
As a licensed clinical social worker, he offered outpatient mental health services in Chelsea in New York City. He also taught at Hunter College from 1991 to 2001, and from 2002 until his retirement in 2006 he served on the faculty of the Columbia University School of Social Work. From 1997 until 2004 he was the online mental health expert for the HIV/AIDS website TheBody.com.
He was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1982, but lived free of AIDS symptoms. At the time of his death from pancreatic cancer in Manhattan in June 2008, his brother Jeffrey Shernoff told The New York Times that he found it ironic that after years of living with HIV infection, "He died of pancreatic cancer, which may not even be related."