“Proud and Prepared: A Guide for LGBT Students Navigating Graduate Training” was printed in limited release last month, and is now available to all members and affiliates of APA for free download!
APAGS-CSOGD Chair Julia Benjamin reacts to receiving a copy of “Proud and Prepared,” which her committee worked on tirelessly for several months.
This exclusive resource guide was produced by the APAGS Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (CSOGD). Despite the popularity of the committee’s first edition — it had been downloaded and shared thousands of times — it was nine years old. The new guide places emphasis on more subgroups of the LGBT community and offers broader discussion of this community’s modern training concerns. It also embeds dozens of in-depth quotes, pictures and candid perspectives from real students on a multitude of topics.
Authored by current graduate students from a diversity of backgrounds, training programs and viewpoints, “Proud and Prepared” aims to capture the energy and vitality of LGBT graduate students to the profession. Artistically, the guide was designed in-house by talented APA staff and showcases our dynamic content in a colorful 67-page package.
Go ahead and take a sneak peak!
Check out some of Proud and Prepared’s awesome new sections:
- Assessing Your Program’s Climate
- Self-Disclosure in Graduate School
- The Importance of Social Support
- Mentorship and LGBT Students
- Tips for Transgender or Gender Variant Students
- Tips for Bisexual Graduate Students
- LGBT Advocacy and Confronting Discrimination
- Conducting LGBT Research
- Resources for LGBT Students
- APA’s Ethical Codes of Interest to LGBT Students
If you are looking for relevant information related to climate, mentorship, self-disclosure, research implications and much more, download the full guide (PDF, 3.3MB) for further reading. Your APA Member login is required. If you are not a member, consider joining today.
This photo is amazing, as is the guide 🙂
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Your guidelines left out Intersex and Asexual persons. Under F64.2 Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-5, DSDs are an important component of the diagnosis. Asexuality is also a sexual orientation with support groups worldwide.
9/15/15 at 3:21pm ET: If anyone has experienced any difficulty downloading the guide but were a full member of APA, we’ve now fixed that issue and anyone with a current APA membership or affiliate status should be able to access it.
Thanks for highlighting! As an ally, I downloaded this guide for my role as a mentor.