The potential to promote resilience: piloting a minority stress-informed, GSA-based, mental health promotion program for LGBTQ youth
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This article describes the results of a pilot study to determine the feasibility and acceptability of a mental health promotion program that was developed to address minority stressors and promote coping skills among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. It was hypothesized that the program would be feasible to implement within the context of a gay-straight alliance (GSA) and that GSA members would find the program acceptable (e.g., educational, enjoyable, helpful, and relevant). Participants included ten members of a high school GSA in the northeastern United States. The program sessions were delivered during GSA meetings. The first session emphasized the identification of minority and general stressors, which was followed by a discussion of coping strategies. The remaining sessions emphasized the development of cognitive coping, affect regulation, and problem-solving skills. After each session, participants completed a 13-item feedback form. Ten items assessed acceptability and three open-ended items allowed participants to provide constructive feedback. Although the program was feasible to implement within the GSA setting, attendance at the sessions was variable. Those who attended the sessions reported them to be enjoyable, informative, relevant to their lives, and potentially helpful for other LGBTQ students. After revising the program, future research is needed to investigate its dissemination potential and determine whether the program can disrupt the minority stress-psychiatric distress relationship.
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Minority stress has informed important clinical and counseling interventions designed specifically to target the mechanisms specified in the minority stress model in order to interrupt the deleterious impact of minority stress on sexual and gender minority health and well-being and inform school-based interventions.
“Minority stress has informed important clinical and counseling interventions designed specifically to target the mechanisms specified in the minority stress model in order to interrupt the deleterious impact of minority stress on sexual and gender minority health and well-being and inform school-based interventions [31,32].”
From Minority stress theory: Application, critique, and continued relevance (2023) · cites this paper as [32]
The sections “Minority Stressors and Mental Health Promotion for LGBTQ Youth” and “Description of the Mental Health Promotion Program” describe a school-based program designed to address minority stressors and related coping mechanisms. This supports the school-based portion of the claim, but the paper does not establish the broader claim about clinical and counseling interventions or show that its pilot program interrupted minority stress’s effects on health. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Authors
- Heck, N. C.
- Affiliations
- Marquette University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Heck, Nicholas C.
- ORCID
- Heck, Nicholas C.
- Venue
- Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
- Published
- 2015-09
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 225-231
- ISSN
- 2329-0382 (ISSN-L)
- 2329-0390
- PMC
- PMC4564052
- OpenAlex
- W2418774770
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 7.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH078788)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
- Keywords
- minority stress, LGBTQ youth, gay-straight alliances, mental health promotion, resilience, coping strategies, emotion regulation, problem-solving skills, program feasibility, program acceptability, high school students, psychiatric distress
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