WEBINAR: Conceptual issues and research evidence of resilience in the LGBT community

The Cultural Framework for Health – New Approaches

Presenters and Topics

Individual vs. Community Resilience in Minority Stress of Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals, by Ilan H. Meyer, Ph.D., UCLA School of Law

Implications of Childhood Experiences for the Health and Adaptation of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals: Sensitivity to Developmental Process in Future Research, by Margaret Rosario, Ph.D., The City University of New York

In these spaces: Perceived neighborhood quality as a protective factor against discrimination for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) adults eighborhood quality as a protective factor against discrimination, by Alisia (Giac-Thao) Tran, Ph.D., Arizona State

A Novel Method and Program for Addressing Health Disparities among LGBTQ High School Students, University by Nicholas Heck, Ph.D., Marquette University in Milwaukee

Meeting Information

Name: Culture Webinar – June 17

Date: Wed June 17, 2015

Start Time: 2:00 PM Wednesday, June 17, 2015

URL: https://webmeeting.nih.gov/meyer/

Audio Conference Details

Conference Number(s): 1-888-850-4523

Participant Code: 214908

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT AUDIO: You need a phone to hear the presentation. There is no audio through the computer. You need to use the Phone Conference Number provided above.

Overview

Minority stress theory describes stress processes that stem from stigma and prejudice experienced by lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender individuals (LGBT) and that place LGBT people at risk for adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Hundreds of research articles since the 1990s have shown that minority stress processes lead to mental and physical health problems. Most of this research has focused on LGB people but more recently research on transgender populations has articulated minority stress processes and has demonstrated its impact on the health of transgender people. Minority stress, like general stress theory, also suggests that against minority stress, LGBT people mount coping responses. According to theory, the impact of stress on health is determined by the countervailing effects of pathogenic stress processes and ameliorative resilience processes. In general, resilience research has shown that in various populations, starting early in childhood, individuals mount significant, sometimes heroic, coping efforts in the face of stress and adversity. But research on ameliorating (or salutogenic—health inducing) processes in LGBT populations has lagged. This Fall, a special issue of Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, guest edited by Dr. Ilan H. Meyer, comes to feel a gap in the literature on resilience in LGBT people. In this Webinar we will highlight 3 areas of research on resilience that have not yet received much attention. The areas covered include individual/psychological level resilience, social/community level resilience, and resilience intervention in sexual and gender minority youth.