The Often-Circuitous Path to Affirming Mental Health Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults.

Autor: Holt NR; Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, USA. natalieholt93@gmail.com., Hope DA; Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA., Mocarski R; Office of Research, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA., Woodruff N; Trans Collaborations Community Board, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current psychiatry reports [Curr Psychiatry Rep] 2023 Mar; Vol. 25 (3), pp. 105-111. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 11.
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-023-01410-2
Abstrakt: Purpose of Review: We describe recent research regarding access to affirming mental health services for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) adults and explore new resources available for therapists to inform evidence-based practice with TGD clients.
Recent Findings: Barriers and facilitators at all socioecological levels impact TGD adults' mental health help-seeking. TGD adults often interface with mental health providers while accessing gender-affirming medical care, though new standards of care are likely to alter this typically common path to mental health services. Efforts to improve therapist education, such as therapy manuals, are increasingly available and a necessary step to increase the number of competent, affirming therapists. More work-both advocacy and research-is needed to fully expand accessible, affirming mental health services for TGD adults. Better understanding factors impacting different steps of the mental health help-seeking process and conducting randomized controlled trials of affirming mental health services are important next steps.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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