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Gender Dysphoria in Children and Young People
Published in Cathy Laver-Bradbury, Margaret J.J. Thompson, Christopher Gale, Christine M. Hooper, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2021
Hannah Stynes, Martin McColl, Ellis Kennedy
Sexual orientation is separate from gender identity and refers to a combination of a person’s sexual attraction, sexual behaviour and self-identification as heterosexual/straight, homosexual/gay, bisexual, asexual or other.
Methodological Considerations
Published in Christa Craven, Reproductive Losses, 2019
I thought a lot about whether to ask demographic questions at the beginning or the end of interviews and decided to ask them as we concluded. There were several reasons for this. One is that because this topic is a difficult one and since participants had prepared to talk with me about loss, I wanted to let them tell their story without a lot of preceding considerations. Also, most participants did not know me prior to meeting for our interview. Questions regarding gender identity, sexual orientation, race, and religion are often fraught with tension for LGBTQ people, sometimes stemming from negative experiences with previous researchers, healthcare professionals, and others. Similarly, sociologists have stressed that demographic questions about socioeconomic class, such as “what kind of work do you do?” can “immediately create social distance and distrust” on the part of participants.19 I decided that after our discussions during interviews, participants could better choose what to share with me, or choose to omit, for the purposes of the study.
Chemically Dependent Lesbians and Bisexual Women: Recovery from Many Traumas
Published in Brenda L. Underhill, Dana G. Finnegan, Chemical Dependency: Women at Risk, 2018
Dana G. Finnegan, Emily B. McNally
1. Above all else, Herman (1992) stresses, safety must be established and maintained. If a recovering alcoholic lesbian is threatened by homophobic forces-for example, if she will lose her job if her sexual orientation becomes known-she needs to be helped to protect herself and her identity and to feel all right about staying closeted. If an alcoholic bisexual woman with many years' recovery is severely depressed, she needs to receive specific treatment that will help alleviate the depression.
Queerness is a Particular Liability: Feeling Rules in College and University LGBTQ Centers
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2023
Chad R. Mandala, Stephanie M. Ortiz
Employees experience socialization in formal and informal ways within their work environments targeted at increasing their productivity. This socialization process can take many forms, including the display of emotions within the workplace (Hochschild, 2012). These feeling rules are designed to maximize employee efficiency; however, they may have negative consequences and are not enforced equally across social identities (Ashforth & Humphrey, 1993; Hochschild, 2012; Wingfield, 2015). The stratification of feeling rules has been studied in service work and care work, as well as in relation to gender and race (Ashforth & Humphrey, 1993; Bellas, 1999; Cain, 2017; Harlow, 2003; Wingfield, 2015); however, we know little about how feeling rules are constructed, experienced, and imposed on the basis of sexual orientation. Therefore, we ask: how are feeling rules stratified by sexual orientation? Theoretically, this question seeks to expand on the emotional labor literature to evaluate if the structure of feeling rules within workplaces extend to other marginalized social identities. Empirically, the exploitation of LGBTQ employees, especially in an era where sexual orientation is not universally a legally protected identity from harassment or termination, is a critical social problem to explore. If, as organizational sociologists argue, emotional labor is intertwined with employer’s control and exploitation of workers (Hochschild, 2012; Perrow, 1972), examining how sexual orientation is an axis of this power structure may illuminate the hidden inequalities for these marginalized groups.
Qualitative and Artificial Intelligence-based Sentiment Analyses of Anti-LGBTI+ Hate Speech on Twitter in Turkey
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
M. Berna Doğan, Volkan Oban, Gül Dikeç
Due to their sexual orientation and gender identity, LGBTI+ people can often encounter obstacles such as stigmatization, discrimination, marginalization, and unequal access to human rights. Because they are at risk for excess mental distress and disorders, it is important to understand the risks and other factors that ameliorate stress and contribute to mental health. Only with such understanding can psychiatric and mental health professionals and public policymakers work toward designing effective prevention and intervention programs. Psychiatric and mental health professionals also have responsibilities such as defending LGBTI+ individuals’ right to health and providing appropriate mental health care (Kates et al., 2017). They should also collaborate with non-governmental organizations to protect the human rights of the LGBTI+ community and should share any informative tweets targeting this community.
The Tsunamic Model of LGBTQ+ Deaths of Despair: A Systemic Review to Identify Risk Factors for Deaths of Despair Among LGBTQ+ People
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
Kassie R. Terrell, Robert J. Zeglin, Reagan E. Palmer, Danielle R. M. Niemela, Nathan Quinn
The present lack of research and training to guide treatment and best practices for this community can also lead to misinformed and dangerous practice (Bränström et al., 2016; Gilbert, Pass, Keuroghlian, Greenfield, & Reisner, 2018). For example, a counselor conducting conversion therapy, a form of therapy that involves the practitioner attempting to change the LGBTQ+ client’s sexual orientation, may cause psychological damage to the individual seeking services (Coulter, Kenst, Bowen, & Scout, 2014). While the American Counseling Association (ACA) has banned conversion therapy, or reparative therapy (American Counseling Association: Meeting of the Governing Council, 1999), as it is not an effective treatment modality and can be harmful to clients (Whitman, Glosoff, Kocet, & Tarvydas, 2013), it is the professionals responsibility to stay abreast of and offer well-informed, up-to-date, empirical validated, and effective treatment that is rooted in understanding and awareness of the unique needs and struggles of the LGBTQ+ community. Uninformed Care is an essential component of The Tsunamic Model of LGBTQ+ Deaths of Despair as it has the potential to moderate or exacerbate Risk Amplifiers, Risk Activator, and DOD.