Similar Homosexual Teen's Experiences

The problem of Suicide by LGBT Youth is that majority of them get bullied by their heterosexual peers. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014) Sometimes their parents will kick them out of the house because of their sexual orientation. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014) Myself being a part of the LGBTQ community, I never came out to my peers at school. I kept to myself so I never experienced the bullying due to my sexual orientation but I do hear the comments all the time by my father. My father always believed in a marriage should be a male and a female.

Group work is an effective method of therapy in which a social worker leads a group of individuals who have a common purpose. Group work is used for many populations, and there are constantly new models of group work that are developed for certain underserved populations. One of those populations is the LGBTQ community, specifically, LGBTQ adolescents. This essay will cover new models that can be implemented to lead groups with LGBTQ group members. The purpose of the models is to promote resiliency and to be used as interventions for those who have trouble coping with stress. There will also be discussion about the benefits for facilitators and members who participate in groups, and how effective these groups are for LGBTQ adolescents. It is important to care about the LGBTQ community because they are more alienated than other minority groups. Someone who is part of a racial or gender minority has friends or family that identify with the same status; LGBTQ do not always have someone who identifies with them, making them more vulnerable than most other minorities.

“Look at the faggot! Watch out! He’ll get you!” (Pascoe, 53) this is the common response other heterosexual males have to their homosexual or suspected homosexual peers. C.J. Pascoe’s book (Dude You’re a Fag: Masculinity and sexuality in high school) goes into an average high school called River High and does a year and a half field study on homosexuality (specifically male homosexuality), masculinity and adolescence’s overall sexuality. Also, its relationship/impact on the struggles that the teenagers go through. In the academic article also written by him years later after seeing the public’s response back up how difficult it is to be an adolescence in today’s society. “The relationship between adolescent masculinity and sexuality is embedded

The teen years can often times be very difficult in general, but for homosexual teens their problems can turn out to be more than they can deal with. Being gay for many teens is something that they can not live with because society, most of the time, says that homosexuality is wrong. These teens usually have no one to go to with his or her problems for fear of being taunted or harassed. Also, schools rarely have groups for gay students to go to for help and parents are often unaware of what their children are going through. With no place to go and no one to help them, homosexual teens can feel alienated which may force them think of more harmful ways of dealing with their problems, so at times gay teens may turn to suicide rather than

Bos, H. M., Van Balen, F., & Van den Boom, D. C. (2007). Child adjustment and parenting in planned lesbian-parent families. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 77, 38-48. doi:

Authors Rosario, Schrimshaw, and Hunter in this article, documents the very high rates of homelessness among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth. However, this study is primarily focuses on the psychological symptoms and disparities of gay youth and how they outstandingly differentiate from their homeless heterosexual counterparts. After further investigation they had begun to examine potential mediators between the two such as, friends, family, childhood, and environmental factors. These findings suggest the need for interventions to reduce stress and enhance social support among LGB youth with a history of homelessness in order to reduce psychological symptoms.

It isn’t easy being a teenager. Teenagers are halfway to adulthood and are working on figuring out who they are and what kind people they’re going to be. That inner battle surfaces when they act out and when they get emotional. We’ve all been there. What’s harder than being a teenager, however, is being a gay teenager.

High School is where students get their education for them to get a better life and a good career for them in their future. One of my High Schools that I attended was Madera High School which is an old, calming school. Some of the students in that school may be smart, dumb or even just in between smart and dumb or even some nasty homophobic who despise homosexual people, lesbian, gay and bisexual identity. In fact, I knew someone who hates these kind of individuals and it make me think how such a person can hate these kind of human because everyone is the same we all have the same rights god gave us. People like this makes me some type of way because they are so dumb and stupid for not supporting this. Every person in this world has equal rights

Picture an African American High School student who is struggling with their sexuality identity. He is experiencing anxieties from high-achieving parents, which both attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities. His father was the star player on the football team and served in the military. His mother is a partner in a prestigious law firm. In addition, his older brother won the Heisman trophy, and his sister just landed a job working at the Whitehouse. Needless to say his parents, has high expectations for their children. He is currently a B average student, and is working hard to bring his grades up. Also, the transition from middle school to high school has added additional stress to this student’s life. We can conclude this

Part of my discoveries in feminism led me to discover how traditional the adult view of sexuality and gender are. Parents are so unaccepting of LGBT+ children because they believe everything must have an order, and there is only one way to be human. The teenagers I have met do not see things this way. They are able to accept one another, often much better than their own parents are able to accept them. My parents know that I do not like to judge other people’s worth based on what gender they are or what gender they are attracted to, and this has gotten us into arguments. I do not let that tear me down. Accepting and understanding others is more important to me than being

Throughout life, each individual is shaped by meaningful interactions and events that he or she encounters. On the other hand, viewing their life from the life course perspective, which entails biological, psychological, and social factors that act independently, cumulatively, and interactively to mold one’s life from conception to death, allows one to understand the individual from a clearer perspective (Hutchinson, 2015). As social workers, we are obligated to enhance the client’s well-being by attending to his or needs while taking into consideration the various factors, such as person-in-environment, biopsychosocial factors, sociocultural factors, or life stages, that influence the client (National Association of Social Workers, 1999). We must be able to use the life course perspective to understand our clients and provide him or her with the essential social services.

The theoretical justification of the author is that previous studies have found that sexual minority youths report worse mental health, lower academic achievement, and less adult support than their heterosexual peers. This I believe is a concern because these sexual minorities have somewhat less support in almost every aspect talked about above and probably comes to no surprise to most people. Also, because these are each facets of the Five Cs, it is likely that sexual-minority youths experience lower positive youth development than heterosexuals do, this might be because of violence and victimization they experience. Which that may help explain the numerous health disparities experienced by sexual-minority youths. There has also not been a

In this theory, it shows how the individual identifies his or her sexual identity in four phases; Awareness, Exploration, Deepening/ Commitment and Internalization. In the study, researchers decided to apply this theory for students, which is the main respondents of this research and not to LGBT couples themselves because the study only focuses on the acceptance of students on LGBT Couples.

Nicholas Solebello and Sinikka Elliott examine the way fathers describe and discuss the conversations they have had with their teens about sexuality and sexual orientation in the article “‘We Want Them to Be as Heterosexual as Possible’ Fathers talk about Their Teen Children’s Sexuality”. The overwhelming theme of these conversations was that fathers encouraged and expected their children, especially their sons, to be heterosexual. Fathers seemed much more invested and interested in the sexuality of their sons than their daughters. The fathers seemed to view sons as sexual beings, but not daughters. The prevalent pattern was that they explicitly wanted their sons to be heterosexual and interested but careful about sex. They expected and viewed

Results indicated that heterosexual and non-attracted youths had higher scores than sexual-minority youths in several but not all areas of positive youth development. Heterosexuals had higher competence, confidence, and connection than sexual-minority youths. In part I believe that these higher scores in the heterosexual and non-attracted youths like in competence is true because they don’t want to feel behind other competitors and are constantly working to feel accepted in a way. As to the sexual-minority youth, I think they are more reserved and in a way afraid to the perspective of the “what would other say”.