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WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT BEG GAY?: PERSPECTIV OM YOUTH
LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The pl sign reprents the vast diversy of people terms of sexual orientatn, genr inty, exprsn and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and n vary pendg on the regn or untry, highlightg the multu of LGBTIQ+ muni across cultur. While regnizg the diversy of LGBTIQ+ people, evince suggts some mon experienc affectg their health and well-beg. They are ls likely to accs health servic and engage wh healthre workers due to stigma and discrimatn, rultg adverse physil and mental health out. They n also experience human rights vlatns cludg vlence, torture, crimalizatn, voluntary medil procr and discrimatn. In addn, they n face nial of re, discrimatory attus and appropriate pathologizg healthre settgs based on their SOGIESC. WHO's support to untri is found on the fundamental human rights prciple that all persons should have accs to health servic whout discrimatn. The adoptn of the 2030 Agenda for Staable Development and s pledge to “leave no one behd”, based on the normative amework of ternatnal human rights law, has rerced the need to unrstand and improve the health and well-beg of LGBTIQ+ people. WHO velops guil, provis technil support and nducts rearch to help untri velop and strengthen clive health systems and polici for the health and well-beg of all people, regardls of SOGIESC. * lgbt positivity *
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). Siarly, scholars also found that the rolutn of ternalized homonegativy among gay and bisexual men was associated wh ls or no: distrs, strs, and timate partner vlence among other posive out (Herrick et al., 2014).