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7 Tips on Showing Up When a Loved One is Undergoing Gender Transition

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 01:15

Someone you love or care for very much has shared with you that they want to “transition”. What does it mean and what do you do now?

Are the Kids Really Alright? Troubling Headlines, Teenage Girls, and Declining Mental Health

Are the Kids Really Alright? Teenage Girls, and Declining Mental Health Karen Martinez Gonzalez

Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 15:58

The headlines and the CDC report are indeed alarming, but they should serve as a wakeup call to all of us. Yes, we should think seriously about why we are seeing a steep decline in the mental health of teenage girls, but we have to come together now as parents, family, friends, educators, clinicians, providers, and as a society to support, enhance and establish more preventive measures for our youth.

How I Learned to Stop Avoiding Life

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 15:18

This blog was originally posted on Ten Percent Happier on April 22, 2022 and is reprinted here with permission

An Update on LGBTQ Youth’s Mental Health (Professionals)

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 - 12:18

According to the latest mental health statistics from the Trevor Project’s 2021 Youth Mental Health National Survey, 42% of LGBTQ youth reported that they seriously contemplated suicide during the pandemic. Additionally, these youth experienced elevated rates of anxiety and depression due to social isolation as many were unable to further their gender and sexual identity development and expression due to a lack of accepting and affirming environments that were open during the pandemic.

An Update on LGBTQ Youth’s Mental Health

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 - 12:18

A To-Do List for White Psychologists (and other Anti-Racist Allies) in 2020

Erika J. Vivyan, PhD

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 13:16

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent increased awareness of systemic racism have left me, a white psychologist, at a loss for words. I wanted to write a post for other anti-racist allies who are also struggling to voice and act in increasingly anti-racist ways both personally and professionally.

Transgender OCD: A New Theme Following a Familiar Pattern

Stephanie Woodrow, LCPC, NCC

Monday, April 6, 2020 - 11:26

In the early 2000s, patients started reporting a new worry to their OCD therapists: what if I’m gay? This thought was often prefaced by patients declaring that they weren’t homophobic, but the fear was still there. The theme was dubbed homosexual OCD or HOCD.

Anxiety and Depression in Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals

Sarah A. Hayes-Skelton, PhD and David W. Pantalone, PhD

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - 11:52

People who identify as sexual (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer) or gender (i.e., transgender, genderqueer, non-binary) minorities have similar symptoms of anxiety and depression as heterosexual and cisgender (non-transgender) individuals.

Understanding Anxiety and Depression for LGBTQ People

Brad Brenner, PhD

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 17:06

Updated October 2020

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