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The mental health professions continue to wrestle with the
controversial issue of how to respond to clients wanting
to modify sexual identity. Recent reports in peer-reviewed
journals have advocated the use of sexual reorientation
interventions, either via mental health counseling or
religious ministry (Throckmorton, 2002a; Yarhouse &
Throckmorton, 2002). Other writers continue to assert that
such interventions are harmful to homosexually oriented
clients and therefore should be discouraged or unavailable
(Tozer & McClanahan, 1999; Schroeder & Shidlo, 2002).
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