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for Friends and Family of Minor-Attracted People See Our Latest Survey Results MAPs' Experiences with Mental Health Care & Impact of Professional Literature |
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Survey Results Awareness in Youth, Suicidality, & Seeking Mental Health Care |
| Before
you
act,
know
the
facts
and
consider
the
consequences. |
If you're a mental health professional:
You may be disturbed by the lack of mental health care accessible to people who are emotionally and sexually attracted to minors, or by the unavailability of accurate information about such clients and how to work with them. We help mental health professionals learn more about attraction to minors and to consider the effects of stereotyping, stigma, and fear. That way they can be informed before they work with clients who are attracted to minors, and before they talk about or make public statements about minor-attracted people.
If you're a minor-attracted person:
You may be looking for mental health services to deal with anxiety, depression, anger, or other factors either unrelated to your sexuality or resulting from society's stereotypes and reactions to your sexual feelings. Or you may be wondering how to live life fully and stay within the law. But you may feel you can't trust therapists because they don't understand you, they'll judge you, or they'll report your feelings to others. We help minor-attracted people find mental health professionals that they can trust. That way they can develop ways of coping and consider how their actions affect themselves and others before they react to their situation or to society's attitudes about them.
B4U-ACT is a unique collaborative effort between minor-attracted people and mental health professionals to promote communication and understanding between the two groups. Our goal is unique and unprecedented: to make effective and compassionate mental health care available to individuals who self-identify as minor-attracted and who are seeking assistance in dealing with issues in their lives that are challenging to them. We want to give them hope for productive and fulfilling lives, rather than waiting for a crisis to occur.
Updated
January 8, 2012
| Most, I believe, could have lived lawfully with a little
help before their downfall. Most were not given the opportunity to
receive this help, however, because of the way that their behavioral
proclivities were received by their societies. Jay
Feierman, M.D.
University of New Mexico |
|
What are
our
workshops like? "Until you have experienced it yourself, you cannot possibly understand how powerful and healing it is to be in a room full of people who are filled with empathy and compassion and understanding." —"Daneel"
"There's no
way that anyone can understand what MAPs are all about unless you
attend one of these workshops."
—Joseph B. Hicks, LPCMH, CCMHC"Frank and courageous discussion about a reality that challenges clinical counter transference." —Anthony
Swetz, PhD
"I was astounded by the willingness of the
participating clinicians to enter into discussions not as
professionals, but as human beings." |
