Stress And The Lgbt Teenager

Ryan, Caitlin Ryan; Russell, Stephen, T.; Huebner, David; Diaz, Rafael; Sanchez, Jorge, 2010, Family Acceptance in Adolescence and the Health of LGBT young Adults, Journal of Child and Adolescence Psychiatric Nursing, Volume 23, pp. 205-213

Support groups will help lower the risk of suicide. (Eisenberg & Resnick, 2006) Having parental support will tremendously help with the LGBT youth's self-confidence. The primary step for this recommendation is to make sure there is counselling when needed. Teachers and parents can help counsel the teen with all the support they can give. (Eisenberg & Resnick, 2006) This approach draws from the social-cultural perspective. Having a family connection helps with lowering the risk of suicide; the more your family supports you, the less you think of suicide. (Eisenberg & Resnick, 2006) It'll become easier to push aside the bullying as well when they feel rejected at their school. (Husted,

LGBTQ adolescents, also called sexual minority youth, have a higher risk of developing mental and emotional problems than heterosexual youth, and also face more bullying, harassment, and victimization due to homophobia (Craig, Austin, & McInroy, 2014). In order to address their needs, the researchers used group therapy that was based on

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

Most LGBT youth become happy with who they are which gives them room to thrive during their adolescent years. Attending a school that has a safe and comfortable environment for every student is especially important. Positive environments can help all youth achieve good grades and maintain good mental and physical health. However, some youths are more likely than their straight peers to experience bad health and life outcomes. Experiences with violence, compared to other students, come easy to LGBT individuals that can cause increased risks for unfortunate circumstances.‘Violence’ includes behaviors such as teasing, harassment, and physical assault. It is important that students at risk have access to resources and support to deal with any questions or challenges they may have or face as they mature. Surveyed LGBT students reported 10% were threatened or injured, 34% were bullied, and 28% were bullied electronically.

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.

“As the Equity Project points out, heterosexism and homophobia can have disastrous results for lesbian, gays, bisexual, transgender youth” (Bates & Swan, Pg. 155). In this week’s journal, the question arises. Looking back over the course of your teenage and childhood years, what are some ways that can now recognize as heterosexism and/or homophobia affecting young people? More so my middle school years, teens who were heterosexism and homophobia tended to be isolated from the big group of kids. Further, they were segregated from the popular clique and were looked at as the “weird” kids. Being labeled as the weird kids, they frequently tried to cope things out with drugs and alcohol. Like the article states, “LGBT youth often become homeless

The article describes the phenomenon of peer victimization and also those who have been targeted with homophobic language understand the user’s purpose; whether they feel being stigmatized will influence changes into their lives. After, the authors explain how peer victimization has various mental health outcomes in LGB youth. They found that when controlling for previously reported levels of each psychosocial outcome variable that homophobia victimization anticipated concern, misery and lowered sense of school belonging in boys and extraction in girls. After this finding, it indicates that homophobic victimization had a great mental health impact on sexual minority youth more than the heterosexual peers. In addition, the authors discuss that in the Netherlands, 13-15-year-olds found that who have same-sex most likely to get negative treatment by other students than those without same-sex. In the Netherlands in which the social expectations for women and men are very similar than different. Therefore, where homosexuality is less stigmatized and the gender roles are less strictly observed.

I think homosexual teen’s experiences may be similar homosexual adult’s experiences this is because both teens and adults alike are always judging each other. High school can be a difficult place if you are a homosexual teen. I have seen firsthand how bad teens can be when it comes to homosexual teens. This is because when I was in high school I had a gay friend, and he would never want to come to school because he would be bullied every day, especially when he did not have his friends with him. There have been cases where grown adults are beaten up on the street just because they are homosexual. This is because there are some people who believe that homosexuality is wrong and unnatural. I believe that if you do not support homosexuality at

I was bullied relentlessly, and called gay, by kids at recess during middle school. The funny thing is, I didn’t even know what gay meant. I always felt like I was an oddity. I never played sports with the others boys but I loved to play House and Teacher with the girls. While the boys were reading Hardy Boys, there I was, reading Nancy Drew. I now know I was not alone in feeling alienated growing up. A study of gay individuals during their coming out process was done in April of 2015 and all of the participants felt that it was expected of them to be heterosexual, which led to feeling “misplaced among peers in school” (Perrin-Wallqvist & Lindblom 472). Unfortunately, I never had the resources to know I was not alone growing up. It was a long

Many would agree that the teenage years can be challenging, difficult and confusing for teenagers and their parents. However, compared to heterosexual youth the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender teenager (LGBT) teen faces increased challenges and difficulties as a result of their sexual orientation. Parents can provide an influential role in their teenagers’ role through effective listening, support and communication. The need for support groups for parents of LGBTQ teens has never been greater.

Brandon Boso, female to male transgender, was eleven when he came out to his parents as transgender. From Brooklyn to Brandon, his parents were skeptical and did not want to accept him as Brandon. Fights broke out and yelling became an everyday occurrence. In an interview, he states, “One day my mom came into my room screaming that I wasn’t a boy and I wasn’t gay because I had said that I still liked guys” (Boso). Although his family became more supportive as he became older, he still had to deal with the backlash from his family while most of his friends were supportive. This is the case for many individuals in the LGBT community who are afraid of coming out to their family. Coming out to your family and friends can be and is a crucial point in someone’s life. The process of coming out and how this affects personal relationships, the break in communication between them and their parents, the toll this takes on them emotionally and mentally while transitioning as well are all key pieces to the coming out as transgender process and also the transition. While some may think that coming out as transgender is an easy decision, people do not take into consideration that coming out as transgender to your parents, family and friends can be emotional, terrifying, and can lead to suicidal thoughts. This process is key in the development of the rest of these teens life and can lead to serious problems with self-esteem and self-acceptance.

Going through life as a lesbian is hard; going through high school as a lesbian is nearly impossible. Society's indoctrination of expectations insinuates itself into the subconscious minds of adolescents who

Have you ever felt afraid to be yourself? Uncomfortable in your own skin? Not even being able to call your own house a home? This is what teens all across America are forced to do because of an unwritten prejudice that is being held against them by their own family. LGBT teens are proven to have a higher death rate, whether is be by suicide or murder. Now what is causing this? What is causing innocent teens to feel like there is no hope left? The main issue is seems to be acceptance. Families need to be more accepting of children regardless of their sexuality by growing a support system and giving their child love; who their children are attracted to does not make them any less human.

Growing up is a complex and puzzling task for every teenager or adolescent. One important feature is creating one's sexual identity. All teenagers explore and experiment sexually as part of normal development. These sexual experiments may be with members of the same or opposite sex. For many teenagers, thinking about or experimenting with the same sex may cause nervousness and concerns regarding their sexual orientation. Most teenagers have been brought up to think that homosexuality is wrong, so that's one of the reasons that teens don't make these thoughts known to everyone. I think gay people deserve to be treated like every other person in the United States.