Mental Health Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Youth - PMC

journal of gay and lesbian mental health

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JOURNAL OF GAY AND LBIAN MENTAL HEALTH

The Journal of Gay & Lbian Mental Health seeks out and publish the most current clil and rearch scholarship on LGBT mental health wh a foc on clil issu.

MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW

The Journal of Gay & Lbian Mental Health also striv to ver the full spectm of sexual and genr mory populatns – lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer, and genr-queer. The Journal of Gay and Lbian Mental Health (JGLMH) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal xed by PsychInfo. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people experience the followg mental health challeng: emotnal distrs, stigmatisatn, victimisatn, discrimatn and barriers to accsg healthre servic.

Keywords: LGBT, mental health dispari, discrimatn, stigmatisatn, victimisatnIntroductnThe acronym LGBTQ (also LGBTQAP+, LGBTQA, GLBTIQ, LGBT, LGBTQ and other alternat) is an umbrella term that stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer or qutng people. This acronym has s origs the shorter versn lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT), which vers a heterogeneo group of LGBT people who often feature together as a group efforts to ga better social reprentatn and more polil support (Salmen 2015:11). The LGBT dividuals have unique experienc that are shaped by multiple factors, such as race/ethnicy, soc-enomic stat, geographil lotn and age, not jt sexual orientatn (Farmer & Yancu 2015:37) lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people differ om ‘tradnal’ mori two aspects: (1) they are not necsarily regnisable through physil characteristics and (2) they are still perceived many ntexts as actg agast natural procs (Takács 2015:10).

MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH

The people suffer om var forms of soc-enomic and cultural jtic, but mostly they feel they are nied regnn, meang that heterosexualy is privileged and homosexualy is valuated (Takács 2015:9). The belief that other sexual orientatns are abnormal or ferr to heterosexualy is a source of opprsn, rultg heterosexism and homophobic attus, creatg a hostile climate for LGBT people (Mostert, Gordon & Kriegler 2015:116; Salmen 2015:11).

THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR MUNI' MENTAL HEALTH RE NEEDS AND EXPERIENC OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVIC: AN TEGRATIVE REVIEW OF QUALATIVE STUDI

N = 914 subjects who had sexual partners of the same sex the past 12 months, the past 5 years, or sce age 18, reprentative sample of sexual mori om the non-stutnalised English-speakg USA populatn aged 18 and vtigate whether stctural stigma (livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice) creas the risk of premature mortaly for sexual mori. N = 10 members of a high school gay-straight alliance the north-eastern Uned StatTo terme the feasibily and acceptabily of a mental health promotn programme to addrs mory strsors and promote pg skills amongst LGBTQ youth.

N = 770 rponnts who self-intified as lbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgenr (91 transgenr and 676 non-transgenr), over the age of 19 asss whether transgenr inty is associated wh an elevated probabily of reported discrimatn, prsn symptoms and suicidal attempts pared wh non-transgenr LGB dividuals.

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