Question

what is conversion therapy? what does it entail? is it erhical and what does the ACA say about it?

Answer 1

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific routine with regards to attempting to change a person's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual utilizing mental or spiritual intercessions.
There is practically no dependable proof that sexual orientation can be changed and therapeutic bodies caution that conversion therapy practices are inadequate and conceivably unsafe. By the by, supporters and defenders do give recounted reports of individuals who guarantee some level of achievement in getting to be heterosexual. Therapeutic, logical, and government associations in the United States and United Kingdom have communicated worry over the legitimacy, adequacy and ethics of conversion therapy.Various locales in Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas have passed laws against conversion therapy.
The ACA Ethics Committee considered numerous elements and inferred an agreement feeling that tends to a few areas of the ACA Code of Ethics and good standards of training present in such a situation. We began with the fundamental objective of reparative/conversion therapy, which is to change a person's sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. Advisors who lead this sort of therapy see same-sex attractions and practices as strange and unnatural and, along these lines, needing "relieving." The conviction that equivalent sex fascination and conduct is anomalous and needing treatment is contrary to the position taken by national mental health associations, including ACA.
The ACA Governing Council passed a goals in 1998 regarding sexual orientation and mental health. This goals explicitly takes note of that ACA contradicts depictions of lesbian, homosexual males and bisexual people as mentally sick because of their sexual orientation. Furthermore, the goals underpins spread of precise data about sexual orientation, mental health and proper intercessions and trains instructors to "report research precisely and in a way that limits the likelihood that outcomes will delude" (ACA Code of Ethics, 1995, Section G.3.b).