Emerging Sexual Identities: Navigating the Landscape with Today's Youth

by Mark A. Yarhouse, Julia Sadusky

Overview

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 20.8% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ+. This book offers a measured Christian response to the diverse sexual identities that are embraced by more and more adolescents, and explains how these identities function in the lives of today's youth.

Mark Yarhouse and Julia Sadusky offer a nuanced, thoughtful, and orthodox approach for readers accompanying those navigating sexual orientation questions, including parents, pastors, church leaders, youth workers, and counselors. They help readers understand the new taxonomy of sexual identities that enable today's youth to account for their sexuality in a more precise way.

Based on the authors' significant clinical and ministry experience, Emerging Sexual Identities places this cultural development in historical context and casts a vision for practically engaging and ministering to teens navigating diverse sexual identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493452231
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/21/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224

About the Author

Mark Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, where he also directs the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute.

Julia Sadusky (PsyD, Regent University) is a clinical psychologist who owns a private practice in Littleton, Colorado. She is also a consultant, a speaker, and a fellow at the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute.

They are coauthors of Emerging Gender Identities.
Mark Yarhouse (PsyD, Wheaton College) is the Dr. Arthur P. Rech and Mrs. Jean May Rech Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College, where he also directs the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. An award-winning teacher, psychologist, and researcher, Dr. Yarhouse has authored numerous books and articles, including the featured white paper on sexual identity for the Gospel Coalition's Christ on Campus Initiative. He lives in Winfield, Illinois.
Julia Sadusky (PsyD, Regent University) is a clinical psychologist who owns a private practice in Littleton, Colorado. She is also a consultant, a speaker, and a fellow at the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute. Her research experiences and clinical training have focused on the study of sexual and gender identity, including providing individual, family, couples, and group therapy for those navigating sexual- and gender-identity concerns.