Download or read book Discrimination Social Support and Internalizing Symptoms Among Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer and Questioning Individuals written by Kenji Takeda and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examination of Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT Populations Across the United States written by Juan Battle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 500 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT communities within the United States. Additionally, the authors document and celebrate many of the everyday strengths and strategies employed by this extraordinary population to navigate and negotiate their daily lives.
Download or read book Support Groups for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer LGBTQ Asian Pacific Americans written by Hanh Dang (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Very little is known about individuals who identify as LGBTQ from Asian and Pacific Island descent despite the fact that Asian Pacific Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States. Parallel to the lack of knowledge is the lack of services for this marginalized population. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to write a grant proposal for a supportive therapeutic program for this population. The literature review indicated that Asian Pacific LGBTQ individuals encounter unique experiences compared to White counterparts. The review also explained the links between challenges and their impact on LGBTQ individuals' well-being. The negative impact from heterosexism experiences is compounded by racial minority stressors. The actual submission of this grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of the project.
Download or read book Restoried Selves written by Kevin Kumashiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists—life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations and values that have traditionally forced queer Asian / Pacific Americans into silent shame because of their sexual orientation and/or ethnicity. Authors share not only their experiences growing up but also how those experiences led them to become social activists, speaking out against oppression. Many harmful untruths—or “stories”—about queer Asian-Pacific Americans have been repeated so often, they are accepted as fact. Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists provides a forum for voices often ignored in academic literature to “re-story” themselves, addressing a range of experiences that includes cultural differences and values, conflicts between different generations in a family or between different groups in a community, and difficulties and rewards of coming out. Those giving voice to their stories through narrative and other writing genres include the transgendered and intersexed, community activists, youths, and parents. The stories told in Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists reflect on: personal experiences—based on country of origin, educational background, religion, gender, and age populations served by activism, including the working poor, immigrants, adoptees, youth, women, and families different arenas of activism, including schools, governments, social services, and the Internet issues targeted by activism, including affirmative action, HIV/AIDS education, mental health, interracial relationships, and sexual violence institutions in need of change, including legal, religious, and educational entities and much more! Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists is an essential read for academics and researchers working in Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and queer studies, and for LGBTQ youth and their parents, teachers, and social service providers.
Download or read book Variables Impacting Depressive Symptoms in Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans written by Thang D. Luu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature that addresses the growing population of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (LGBT APIs) is underdeveloped. The aim of this study is to assess the combined and unique impact of perceived discrimination, internalized homophobia, openness of sexual orientation, authenticity (i.e., self-alienation, acceptance of the self, authentic living), wellness, and various demographic variables (i.e., income level, educational level, occupation, relationship status, religious affiliation, age, gender) on the depressive symptoms of the LGBT API sexual minority group. Using purposive sampling and snowball technique, a total of 662 LGBT API Americans from cities across the United States completed a survey questionnaire. Results indicated significant associations between all of the predictor variables and the criterion variable. Bivariate correlation analysis found that those who reported more discrimination experiences, more internalized homophobia, less openness about sexual orientation, more self-alienation, more acceptance of external influence, less authentic living, less wellness, less income, less education, nonprofessional careers, being single, being affiliated with an organized religion, being younger, and being female also reported more depressive symptoms. The statistically significant variables from the bivariate analysis were included in a multiple regression. The results indicated nine (i.e., discrimination, internalized homophobia, self-alienation, acceptance of external influence, wellness, nonprofessional career, religion, age, gender) of the fourteen statistically significant variables interacted to significantly explain 69% of variation in depressive symptoms while a separate logistic regression analysis found five (i.e., discrimination, self-alienation, acceptance of external influence, wellness, gender) of the fourteen statistically significant variables predicted likelihood for depressive symptoms. Implications involving sensitivity by practitioners and counselors to the challenges faced by LGBT APIs, greater outreach and education to help address stigma and discrimination against this population, and working for change to existing discriminatory policies are also discussed.
Download or read book Asian and Pacific Islander Americans written by Daya Singh Sandhu and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of psychology, education, social work, and counseling examine such topics as transracial adoption, women's issues, substance abuse, and the racial experiences of 43 different ethnic groups often statistically lumped together. Among the specific topics are Asian Indian women's bicultural experience, political ethnic identity versus cultural ethnic identity, ethnic variations in the adaptation of recent immigrant Asian adolescents regarding, and sexual abuse.
Download or read book Living in the Margins written by Alain Dang and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coming Out Together written by Trinity Ordona and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lifetime and Daily Discrimination and Mental Health in Sexual and Gender Diverse Individuals written by Natania Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, two-spirit, intersex, asexual and other sexual and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) individuals are at increased vulnerability to experience negative mental health outcomes compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. A large body of scholarly literature suggest that stigma (often in the form of discrimination) contributes to stressors that may account for the increased mental health burden in this population. The Psychological mediation framework (PMF) indicates that emotion regulation and social support may be important mechanisms leading from stigma to mental health outcomes. The objectives of the present studies were to evaluate and expand the PMF by testing the effects of stigma on mental health (i.e., affectivity and depression) through emotion regulation and social support, and to examine the moderating effects of several risk factors (i.e., childhood abuse history, attachment insecurity) and protective factors (i.e., self-compassion). Daily diary data was used in Study 1 while Study 2 used cross-sectional baseline data to carry out objectives. In Study 1, participants (n = 84) submitted 592 daily surveys for an average of 7 days, reporting on their discrimination experiences, social support, emotion regulation, daily affect, and several risk and protective factors. Moderated mediation models were examined using multilevel, conditional process modelling. It was found that both within-person and across-persons, daily discrimination was indirectly related to daily negative affectivity, via emotion dysregulation, but not social support. Childhood abuse history and self-compassion moderated the daily discrimination- emotion dysregulation relationship. In Study 2, conditional process modeling was used to test pathways from lifetime LGBTQ+ discrimination to depression via social support and emotion dysregulation, with attachment insecurity as a moderator using cross-sectional data from 117 LGBTQ+ individuals. As expected, lifetime LGBTQ+ discrimination had an indirect effect on depression, via social support, and this effect was moderated by attachment insecurity. Social support had a direct and indirect effect on depression, via emotion dysregulation. Emotion dysregulation and social support are important mechanisms leading from discrimination to mental health in LGBTQ+ individuals, and understanding specific risk and protective factors can help to inform case conceptualization and treatment planning for LGBTQ+ affirmative interventions.
Download or read book Becoming Queer and Vietnamese American written by Gina Maséquesmay and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens when a sexually marginalized group of Vietnamese females decide to form a support group? Arguing that they face racism and cultural ignorance from predominantly white gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender organizations and homophobia from sexist co-ethnics, a group of Vietnamese lesbians, bisexual women and female-to-male transgenders founded 0̂-Môi, 'a social support network that endeavors to support and advocate the rights and visibility of Vietnamese- bisexual women, lesbians and transgender people.' Given the diverse gender and sexual identities of the group as well as their diverse connection to Vietnamese culture (recent arrivals vs. those who have been in the U.S. longer vs. younger generation vs. older generation; Chinese-Vietnamese vs. Hapas vs. 'pure Vietnamese'; variegated Vietnamese/English language abilities), how do 0̂-Môi members coalesce and construct a collectivity meanwhile validate and support the diverse gendered, sexual and ethnic experiences of one another? Using Michael Burawoy's extended case method, I examine 0̂-Môi's organizational evolution and dynamics in context of the sexual, racial, ethnic and gender landscape of Southern California. Extracting from the literature on 'identity, ' I propose the concept 'identity work' to examine how identity issues are evoked and negotiated in interaction among 0̂-Môi members. My three-year ethnographic findings from participant-observation and 33 individual interviews suggest that 0̂-Môi has been relatively successful to include support and validate its members' multiple marginalized identities. At the same time, pragmatic attempts to coalesce by drawing group boundaries in everyday interactions tend to pattern into a hierarchy that centers and normalizes experiences of bicultural-bilingual Vietnamese lesbians. These processes render the marginalization and invisibility or tokenism of bisexual and transgender people as well as those who are Vietnamese monolingual and to some extent English monolingual, monocultural, and biracial. I discuss how organizational structure (volunteer group), discourse resources, personal struggle, and political struggle orient members and mold their interactions that lead to affirmation and/or marginalization of certain members' experiences. I conclude with what these findings of provisional identity works tell us about how the hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality are challenged or reproduced in everyday interaction and what the future holds for 0̂-Môi and similar groups"--Leaves x-xi.
Download or read book Handbook of Evidence Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities written by John E. Pachankis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, mental health clinical research has taken inadequate account of psychosocial disorders experienced by those who identify as sexual and gender minorities, however, researchers have recently begun developing and adapting evidence-based mental health treatment approaches for use with these groups. Handbook of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities offers a comprehensive array of evidence-based approaches for treating sexual and gender minority clients' mental health concerns. The interventions detailed here span a diverse spectrum of populations, including sexual and gender minority youth, transgender populations, same-sex couples, sexual minority parents, and bisexual individuals. Chapters also address numerous mental and behavioral health problems, including anxiety disorders, depression, substance abuse, trauma, body image disturbance, and sexual health. In addition to an overview of the research evidence supporting each clinical presentation and approach, chapters contain practical how-to guidance for therapists to use in their clinical practice. This book reflects a true integration of the best of sexual and gender minority research and the best of evidence-based practice research, presented by the leading experts in the field. As such it is essential reading for mental health professionals who work with these groups, as well as trainees in social work, counseling, and clinical psychology.
Download or read book Minority Stress Social Support and Mental Health Among LGBQP Religious Disaffiliates written by Kate Jablonski and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study investigated the association between four minority stress processes (victimization, internalized heterosexism, rejection sensitivity, and disclosure of sexual orientation identity) and symptoms of depression and anxiety among lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, pansexual, or otherwise non-heterosexual (LGBQP+) disaffiliates from non-affirming religions, and whether social support mediated these relationships. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional, correlational design was used. Participants were recruited through Reddit, a popular social-networking site, and completed an online survey that assessed experiences of minority stress, perceptions of social support, and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Participants were 161 non-religious, US-born, cisgender, LGBQP+ Reddit-users who identified as having disaffiliated from a religion that held rejecting views of same-sex sexuality. Path analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The final model was found to be a good fit for the data: chi square(12) = 11.19, p = .512, comparative fit index = .994, root-mean-square-error of approximation = .028, Tucker-Lewis index = .966. Internalized heterosexism and rejection sensitivity were independently associated with higher levels of anxious symptomatology. Family social support was associated with lower levels of depressive symptomatology. Female gender identity, fewer years of education, and a past or current diagnosed mental health disability or impairment were associated with higher depressive and anxious symptomatology. When working with LGBQP+ disaffiliates and their families, mental health professionals should employ LGB-affirmative treatment, consider minority stress processes when developing interventions to target symptoms of anxiety, and encourage social support from family members if clinically appropriate to help address depressive symptoms.
Download or read book Growing Up Gay in Urban India written by Ketki Ranade and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the growing up experiences of gay and lesbian individuals within their homes, schools, neighbourhoods, among friends; and their journeys of finding themselves and their communities while living in a heterosexually constructed society. It is based on an exploratory, qualitative study with young gay and lesbian persons in two cities of Maharashtra, India and employs a life course perspective. The author has written this book from two primary loci: those of a mental health professional and activist, and a queer feminist activist. Through layered narratives and psychosocial analyses of experiences that are simultaneously attentive to subjectivities and to social and interpersonal processes, the author provides insights into the lives of children who grow up feeling ‘different’ from their siblings, peers and friends, and receive constant messages about correct ways of being and expression from their parents, teachers, friends and counsellors/doctors; the unique challenges to growing up as gay or lesbian, alongside complex processes involved in the decision of ‘coming out’; and the experience of meeting others like oneself, forming intimate, romantic relationships, bonds of friendship, political solidarity, families of choice and so on. In this book, the author employs a critical stance towards mainstream life span development studies, developmental psychology, child development and childhood studies that make universal assumptions of heteronormativity and gender binarism. This book is of interest to a wide readership, from psychologists, mental health and human rights scholars, to scholars of youth and childhood studies, gender studies, cultural studies, social work, sociology and anthropology.
Download or read book Q A written by Martin Manalansan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a follow-up to Q & A: Queer in Asian America edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, published in 1998.
Download or read book The Health of Sexual Minorities written by Ilan H. Meyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. This resource offers a multidimensional picture of LGBT health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding of these diverse populations. It contains real-world matters of definition and self-definition, meticulous analyses of stressor and health outcomes, a extensive coverage of research methodology concerns, and critical insights into the sociopolitical context of LGBT individuals’ health and lives.
Download or read book Cultural Considerations in Asian and Pacific Islander American Mental Health written by Harvette Grey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America's increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that mental health providers prioritize the development of their cultural competence to assure that they are equipped to meet the needs of their clients. Cultural Considerations in Asian and Pacific Islander American Mental Health offers a broad array of perspectives from clinicians and researchers actively working with racially/ethnically diverse populations. This book addresses psychosocial cultural issues that impact the mental health of the growing Asian American population. The book opens with the concept of what and who is an Asian American, as well as the myriad distinctions and differences among various Asian groups. Covered chapter topics include a historical overview of the diverse populations among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans; a discussion of the tensions and similarities between empirically supported treatments and cultural competence; Asian and Pacific Islander American elders and depression; and a psychodynamic perspective regarding the treatment of dual diagnosis with an Asian American client. This book is a must-read for mental health clinicians, students, community workers, school counselors, and nurses who work with diverse populations.
Download or read book Social Identity Integration Parental Response and Psychological Outcomes Among Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Queer South Asian Americans written by Saanjh Aakash Kishore and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this study is to understand how social identities are integrated across domains of identity. Focusing on a population in which cultural norms dictate sexuality behaviors as a condition of ethnic membership, the study examines how South Asian LGBQ Americans integrate their ethnic and sexual orientation identities, and also examines the role of this dual social identity integration in the relationship between the distal stress of parental responses to LGBQ identity, the proximal stress of internalized homophobia, and mental health outcomes. One-hundred and twenty-five (125) self-identified South Asian LGBQ Americans were recruited from across the U.S. for participation in an online survey. Participants completed a battery of self-report measures, including: (1) ethnic identity and LGBQ identity versions of the Collective Self-Esteem Scale (CSE, Luhtanen & Crocker, 1992), which assessed membership, private regard, public regard, and the importance of each identity domain; (2) an adapted version of the Bicultural Identity Integration Scale version 2 (BII-2, Huynh, 2009; Benet- Martínez & Haritatos, 2005) that assessed the dual identity integration of sexual orientation and ethnic identities; (3) an assessment of internalized homophobia (Herek, Cogan, Gillis, & Glunt, 1997), (4) parental support and rejection of LGBQ identity; and (5) life satisfaction (World Health Organization), as well as depression, anxiety, and stress (DASS-21, Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995; Antony, Bieling, Cox, Enns, & Swinson, 1998). Results indicated that the BII-2 can be adapted to assess dual identity integration, and suggested that parental expressions of support and rejection predict dual identity Harmony while sexual orientation and ethnic identity predicted dual identity Blendedness. Internalized homophobia partially mediated the relationship between Parental Distress and Harmony, and was identified as a negative predictor of Blendedness. Parental rejection predicted psychological distress, while parental support predicted life satisfaction. Strong sexual orientation identity was associated with lower symptoms of distress, while strong ethnic identity was associated with greater life satisfaction. Higher internalized homophobia partially mediated the relationship between parental rejection and psychological distress, but was not associated with life satisfaction. Neither dual identity Harmony nor dual identity Blendedness predicted either of these mental health outcomes, suggesting that the context-based approach to bicultural integration may also extend to dual identity integration across categories of social identity. Implications of these findings for future research and for intervention are discussed.
