Stress And The Lgbt Teenager

It has been made aware that a lot of individuals are struggling to come out to their families, or with struggling with gender issues that often lead to them killing themselves for not being accepted. This community often works with individuals within a group setting, to recognize the issues that they are experiencing to get advice on how to handle their issues or the emotions they are dealing with. Engaging with individuals of the LGBT community generally display a point of group facilitators with established values (Corey et al., 2010). Taking on this population will call for working with adults and children who are dealing judgments on being who they really are. It is important as a counselor to be prepared to protect the client in any way possible to lay those criticisms to rest and help clients of this group to be more comfortable in their own

Case Study 14.1: David’s coming Out Process 1. What are the developmental challenges for sexual minority youth, as articulated in David’s story? David’s story points out the complicated lives that LGBTQ youth experience, youth who identify as transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide, and studies show that that higher risk stems from their experiences of discrimination and victimization. David’s journey as a gay teen reveals the challenges some young people face just for being who they are.

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

One of the most serious problems many LGBTQ students face is that they experience torment and alienation not only at school, but at home.

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.

While trying to deal with all the challenges of being a teenager, LGBTQ teens also have to deal with harassment, threats and violence directed at them on a daily basis. LGBTQ youth are nearly twice as likely to be called names,

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.

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

For numerous students, high school is an unsafe, uncomfortable environment. Typically these students belong to a minority group. Frequently, these students seen as stereotypes, their identity is disrespected, and when they speak up about a problem they’re facing, they often find themselves talking to an unsympathetic ear. As a member of the LGBT+ community, I faced these problems in high school.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.