The Impact of Contemporary Idealogy and AIDS on the Counseling of Gay Clients

The counseling of gay clients, historically an uncomfortable and unsatisfying experience for many clients and psychotherapists, has become even more of a problem because of the emergence of the political right, the revival of fundamental religiosity, and AIDS. We used survey data and published literature to support the thesis that the above developments have had both subtle and gross negative effects on the attitudes of counselors toward gay clients.