Experts Information

Mark Pope EdD

Expertise:

• Same-sex couples
• Same-sex marriage, especially gay male couples
• LGBT issues in schools
• “Coming out” issues
• Mental health in LGBT populations
• “Conversion therapies” and claims by the “ex-gay” movement
• LGBT issues and the workplace
• LGBT people of color
• Religion and LGBT people
• Aging and the LGBT population

Additional Information:

With Dr. Michael Rankins, Dr. Pope just completed a qualitative study of marriage with male couples who were married in San Francisco. He was the editor of a special section of The Career Development Quarterly (the premier professional journal on career counseling and development) on gay and lesbian career development.

Dr. Pope's primary area of interest and research is in multicultural career counseling, especially gay/lesbian, Native American, and Asian career development issues.  He also has much interest in the use of psychological assessment inventories across cultures as well as the development and validation of such inventories.  Dr. Pope has written on the history and development of professional counseling in the USA and other countries, violence in the schools, and Native American traditional healing.  He has published five books, over 30 chapters in books, over 35 articles in professional journals, and over 120 presentations at international, national, regional, and state professional conferences.

Selected Publications:

Pope, M. (2007). Culturally appropriate counseling considerations with lesbian and gay clients. In P. B. Pederson, J. G. Draguns, W. J. Lonner, & J. E. Trimble (Eds.) (pp. 201-222), Counseling across cultures (6th ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

McLean, R., Marini, I., & Pope, M. (2003). Racial identity and relationship satisfaction in African American gay men. The Family Journal, 11, 13-22.

Pope, M., & Barret, B. (2002). Providing career counseling to gay and lesbian clients. In S. G. Niles (Ed.), Adult career development (3rd ed.) (pp.215-232). Tulsa, OK: National Career Development Association.

Pope, M., & Englar-Carlson, M. (2001). Fathers and sons: The relationship between violence and masculinity. The Family Journal, 9, 367-374.

Pope, M. (2000). Preventing school violence aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth. In  D.S. Sandhu & C.B. Aspy (Eds.), Violence in American schools (pp. 285-304). Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

Pope, M., & Chung, Y. B. (2000). From bakla to tongzhi: Counseling and psychotherapy issues for gay and lesbian Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. In D. S. Sandhu (Ed.), Asian and Pacific Islander Americans: Issues and concerns for counseling and psychotherapy. Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Pope, M., Prince, J. P., & Mitchell, K. (2000). Responsible career counseling with lesbian and gay students. In D. A. Luzzo (Ed.), Career counseling of college students: An empirical guide to strategies that work (pp. 267-284). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.