Highlights of the specific mental health needs among gay and bisexual men.
Contents:
- MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENG OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE: AN TEGRATED LERATURE REVIEW
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Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN): natnal work of tors, stunts, and lol chapters workg to give stunts a safe, supportive, and LGBTQ+ clive tn.
Transgenr youth face further dispari as they are twice as likely to experience prsive symptoms, serly nsir suici, and attempt suici pared to cisgenr lbian, gay, bisexual, queer and qutng youth. Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) is an anizatn that offers rmatn signed to help stunts take actn and iate chang their schools and muni. A 2014 study found that schools wh anti-homophobia groups such as gay-straight allianc (GSAs) signifintly rced the risk of suicidal thoughts among both LGBTQ+ stunts and straight stunts.
GLMA Health Profsnals Advancg LGBT Equaly is an anizatn that works to nnect people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr wh welg healthre provirs. Onle therapy, particular, is an creasgly important way for people to accs affirmg therapy that is sensive to the needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng people. Useful Onle Rourc Regardg LGBTQ HealthGlossary of LGBTQ-Related TermsLbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and/or queer (LGBTQ) dividuals often face signifint barriers when accsg mental health servic.
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
Barriers to re clu disfort or fear of disclosg LGBTQ inty bee of real or perceived homophobia, biphobia, and/or transphobia, a patient’s own ternalized homophobia, biphobia, and/or transphobia, and heterosexist and/or cisgenrist assumptns on take forms and durg health re enunters. 1Moreover, the historic and ntued pathologizatn of LGBTQ inti by the medil/psychiatric muny, cludg prev experienc or stori of “rrective” or “reparative” therapi as well as the historil cln of homosexualy DSM (removed 1973) and the ntroversial ntued cln of genr dysphoria the DSM IV, may ntribute to mistst of mental health profsnals on the part of dividuals who intify as beg part of sexual and/or genr mory groups. 7This creased risk for var mental health ndns this populatn is mostly a rult of discrimatn, margalizatn, and homophobia, biphobia and/or transphobia, rather than somethg herent to havg an LGBTQ inty.
LGBTQ-intified dividuals experience creased vulnerabily to mental health issu due to a variety of factors, cludg bullyg, vlence, discrimatn, heterosexism/cisgenrism, homophobia, biphobia and/or transphobia, and potentially, the loss of support and rejectn by iends and fay. However, ntraly n equate to dismissivens that this stance do not take to acunt an important part of a person’s inty and life experienc (ie, do not rporate an unrstandg of homophobia, biphobia and/or transphobia as well as other experienc of margalizatn).