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MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
Published fal eded form as:PMCID: PMC4276565NIHMSID: NIHMS632438AbstractThis paper exam how posive psychology prcipl n be rporated to clil trag and practice to work wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) clients. As discsed earlier this seri, lerature the past on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT)1 dividuals and their muni have monstrated a broad number of strengths (Vghan, Mil, Parent, Lee, Tilghman & Prokhorets, this issue), particularly wh the past five years. The APA “Guil for Psychologil Practice wh Lbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients” (APA, 2012) is a good place for trae to start learng about the bt practic for workg wh sexual mory clients a manner that is nsistent wh a strength-based addn to the above-mentned guil, perspectiv such as Schrier and Lasser’s (2010) posive levels of attu n be rporated wh trag programs to promote posive subjective experienc ssn wh LGBT clients.
Readgs on heterosexual inty velopment (Worthgton, Savoy, Dillon, & Vernaglia, 2002) as well as homosexual inty velopment and the g out procs (Bellonci, 1997; Cass, 1996; Troin, 1989) would serve as an important supplement to foster open-mdns and social telligence heterosexual and LGBT trae. Creativy, tegry and valy As an aspect of the character strength of tegry (Peterson & Seligman, 2004), efforts to support and affirm thentic exprsns of self may rce or elimate the negative impacts of proximal strs such as ternalized homonegativy and/or cissexism and fears about disclosure.
In rearch on aspects of the character strength of cizenship, Cox and lleagu (2010), found that high levels of affiliatn wh LGB others among youth was lked to lower levels of ternalized homonegativy and may build the character strength of urage and foster posive subjective experienc of rilience the future. Although some have lked religsy wh higher levels of ternalized homonegativy (Lytle, 2012; Walker & Longmire-Aval, 2013), particularly for non-affirmg relig anizatns (Barn & Meyer, 2012), more recent work has suggted that spirualy may serve as a source of rilience and tegry sexual and genr mori (Rodriguez & Vghan, 2013). As prevly mentned, Cox and lleagu (2010) reported that LGB youth who had a LGB affiliatn had ls ternalized homonegativy, and this rearch suggts that fosterg LGB muny (i.