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Future Directions in Understanding and Addressing Mental Health among LGBTQ Youth

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  • Alternative Title:
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
  • Personal Author:
    Fish, Jessica N.
  • Description:
    Today's LGBTQ youth come of age at a time of dynamic social and political change with regard to LGBTQ rights and visibility, yet remain vulnerable to compromised mental health. Despite advances in individual-level treatment strategies, school-based programs, and state-level policies that address LGBTQ mental health, there remains a critical gap in large-scale evidence-based prevention and intervention programs designed to support the positive development and mental health of LGBTQ youth. To spur advances in research and translation, I pose six considerations for future scholarship and practice. I begin by framing LGBTQ (mental) health disparities in a life course perspective and discuss how research focused on the timing of events could offer insight into the optimum targets and timing of prevention and intervention strategies. Next, I argue the importance of expanding notions of "mental health" to include perspectives of wellbeing, positive youth development, and resilience. I then consider how research might attend to the complexity of LGBTQ youths' lived experience within and across the various contexts they traverse in their day-to-day lives. Similarly, I discuss the importance of exploring heterogeneity in LGBTQ youth experiences and mental health. I also offer suggestions for how community partnerships may be a key resource for developing and evaluating evidence-informed programs and tools designed to foster the positive development and mental health of LGBTQ youth. Finally, I acknowledge the potentials of team science for advancing research and practice for LGBTQ youth health and wellbeing. Throughout, these future directions center the urgent needs of LGBTQ youth.
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  • Source:
    J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 49(6):943-956
  • Pubmed ID:
    33074740
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC7736182
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
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  • Volume:
    49
  • Issue:
    6
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    urn:sha256:3842f2d404a90ac179450ec97381e5eece6103465b410daac8048cf51c75d995
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