{"id":14311,"date":"2009-08-06T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/psychologists_dismiss_gay-to-straight_therapy\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:30:06","slug":"psychologists_dismiss_gay-to-straight_therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14311","title":{"rendered":"Psychologists dismiss gay-to-straight therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no firm evidence that sexual orientation can be changed through therapy, so mental health professionals should not tell conflicted gay clients that they can become heterosexual with such treatments, the American Psychological Association declared today.<\/p>\n<p>In adopting a resolution, the APA&#8217;s governing council said some research suggests such &#8220;reparative therapy&#8221; could induce depression or suicidal tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>A task force recommended that mental health professionals &#8220;avoid misrepresenting the efficacy of sexual orientation change efforts when providing assistance to people distressed about their own or others&#8217; sexual orientation,&#8221; usually as a result of religious doctrine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/ondeadline\/2009\/08\/psychologists-dismiss-gaytostraight-therapy.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no firm evidence that sexual orientation can be changed through therapy, so mental health professionals should not tell conflicted gay clients that they can become heterosexual with such treatments, the American Psychological Association declared today. In adopting a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14311\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,129,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}