Essential Clinial Care for Sex Workers: A Sex-Positive Handbook for Mental Health Practitioners

In Essential Clinial Care for Sex Workers: A Sex-Positive Handbook for Mental Health Practitioners, Sex-positive therapists Theodore Burnes and Jamila Dawson break down everything that mental health providers need to know to work effectively with sex workers, while dispelling the tired, pervasive myths that continue to impact treatment today. Readers will learn about different types of sex work, the ways outdated research methodology results in poor care, how to recognize and move beyond personal biases and why we need to dismantle the sex-work hierarchy. Essential Clinical Care for Sex Workers will show readers how clinical care needs to catch up to how the world of sex work is changing and evolving.