scholarly journals Sexual Minority Mental Health

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke G. Rogers ◽  
Audrey Harkness ◽  
Craig Anthony Rodriguez-Seijas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Minority Mental Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Evidence Based Treatments

Sexual minority clients are more likely to experience emotional disorders and other psychiatric conditions than the general population. This health disparity is not attributable to an individual's sexual minority identity, but rather, the social milieu that produces a unique set of stigma-related stressors. Therefore, mental health disparities affecting sexual minority communities are best understood through a minority stress framework. This chapter outlines mental health disparities affecting sexual minority communities, tailored evidence-based treatments, and clinical considerations for working with sexual minority clients. We hope this chapter can offer pragmatic guidance on how best to tailor intervention approaches given the unique needs and lived experiences of this population.

scholarly journals Exploring Discrimination and Mental Health Disparities Faced By Black Sexual Minority Women Using a Minority Stress Framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah K. Calabrese ◽  
Ilan H. Meyer ◽  
Nicole M. Overstreet ◽  
Rahwa Haile ◽  
Nathan B. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Sexual Minority Women

scholarly journals “Here in the Bible Belt, It’s Predominantly Negative”: Sexual Identity Stigma in the American South, 50 Years After Stonewall

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Frey ◽  
William J. Hall ◽  
Jeremy T. Goldbach ◽  
Paul Lanier
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
United States South ◽  
The Impact

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and pansexual (LGB+) individuals have disproportionate rates of mental illness. Minority stress and sexual identity stigma are posited as the primary social determinants of LGB+ mental health disparities. Discussions in the literature have questioned the impact of sexual identity stigma in a world increasingly accepting of sexual minorities. Additionally, the LGB+ population in the United States South is often overlooked in American research. This article details a qualitative study exploring experiences related to sexual identity stigma among adults who identify as LGB+ in the United States South. Semi-structured interviews with 16 individuals were analyzed using content analysis. Six thematic categories of stigma emerged from participants’ experiences: (a) navigating an LGB+ identity, (b) social acceptability of an LGB+ identity, (c) expectation of LGB+ stigma, (d) interpersonal discrimination and harassment, (e) structural stigma, and (f) relationship with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community. Findings suggest that sexual identity stigma remains a common experience among these Southern United States participants. Further, thematic categories and subcategories primarily aligned with extant theory with one exception: Intracommunity stigma, a form of stigma emanating from the LGBTQ community, emerged as a stigma type not currently accounted for in theoretical foundations underpinning mental health disparities in this population.

Sexual minority adolescents and mental health

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-246
Author(s):  
Richard Montoro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Minority Youth ◽  
Sexual Minority Youth ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
And Gender

Sexual minority youth is a broad term that includes adolescents from both sexual orientation and gender minorities. As a major task of adolescence is identity formation, sexual minority youth are particularly vulnerable during this period of self-definition (‘coming out’) both because of societal stigma and traditionally poor parental support. This chapter will start by defining the common terms used by the diverse identities in this population and outlining basic concepts in sexual orientation and gender identity. The literature demonstrating the central role of stigma in creating the mental health disparities of sexual minority youth will be reviewed. As stigma is present at individual, interpersonal, and structural levels, the chapter will conclude with a discussion of the multiple multi-level interventions necessary to have an impact on these disparities. Policymakers and clinicians are uniquely positioned to have a powerful impact on the mental health disparities of sexual minority youth.

scholarly journals Substance Use and Mental Health Disparities among Sexual Minority Girls: Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Marshal ◽  
Gina Sucato ◽  
Stephanie D. Stepp ◽  
Alison Hipwell ◽  
Helen A. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Minority Girls

LGBTI and mental health

2018 ◽  
pp. 225-234
Author(s):  
Martin Plöderl ◽  
Lieselotte Mahler ◽  
Timo O. Nieder ◽  
Götz Mundle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Prevention And Intervention

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals face specific mental health challenges, as will be described in this chapter. Many studies reported elevated mental health problems for LGB individuals compared with their heterosexual counterparts. Fewer studies are available for trans(-gender) and inter(-sex) individuals, but the majority reported increased levels of mental health problems compared with their cisgendered or non-inter counterparts. Current explanatory models centre on the pathogenic effect of homonegativity, transnegativity, and internegativity, as well as the underlying rigid gender roles, resulting in minority stressors that LGBTI individuals and those who are perceived as LGBTI are faced with. Such experienced or internalized minority stress can explain mental health disparities well. This contrasts with the long-standing medical view that LGBTI conditions are inherently pathological. Evidence-based LGBTI-specific prevention and intervention programmes are emerging.

scholarly journals Mechanisms of Mental-Health Disparities Among Minoritized Groups: How Well Are the Top Journals in Clinical Psychology Representing This Work?

2021 ◽  
pp. 216770262110269
Author(s):  
Leah M. Adams ◽  
Adam Bryant Miller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Biopsychosocial Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mental Health Disparities ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Minority Stress Model

It has been known for decades that mental-health disparities exist among minoritized groups, including race, ethnicity, sexual identities, gender identity and expression, ability, and others. Theories and frameworks that incorporate stressors unique to the experiences of minoritized groups, such as the biopsychosocial model of racism and minority-stress model, offer testable mechanisms that may help explain, in part, mental-health disparities. However, research addressing mechanisms of these disparities is still scarce and is not well represented in top clinical psychology journals. In this review, we critically examine the extent to which top-tier clinical psychology journals publish work examining mechanisms of mental-health disparities among minoritized populations. We found that very few studies that address mechanisms of mental-health disparities have been published in top clinical psychology journals. We examine potential reasons for this and discuss recommendations for future research.

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