Increasing Effective Mental Health Care for LGBT Clients

加强对 LGBT 客户的有效心理保健

• 批准号: 10227649
• 负责人: BRADLEY O BOEKELOO
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-30 至 2024-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10227649
• 关键词: Increasing; Effective; Mental; Health; Care

The University of Maryland Prevention Research Center (UMD-PRC) aims to better understand and improve mental health care for sexual and gender minority (LGBT) persons. LGBT persons suffer higher rates of mental health concerns and related co-occurring health problems such as substance use, sexual risk-taking, eating disorders, obesity, bully victimization, and cancers. Sometimes poor coping and/or the synergistic effects of multiple co-occurring conditions exacerbate mental health concerns and further increase LGBT persons’ need for mental health care, which needs to be addressed so that they can effectively utilize other forms of health care and needed social services. Unfortunately, there are many gaps in the understanding of mental health care for LGBT persons. The literature is scant in regard to LGBT persons experience in mental health care and their perceived needs, scientifically validated tools and methods to assess mental health care for LGBT persons, and evaluated cultural competency training and technical assistance for mental health care providers of LGBT clients. Meanwhile, the scientific literature is advancing about mental health and related health disparities in LGBT populations and the importance of addressing mental health in this population at systems, organizational, social, and individual levels. Additionally, societal attitudes and government policies regarding LGBT persons are rapidly evolving, creating new culturally sensitive health care vocabulary, health care delivery requirements, and more LGBT-identifying persons in younger cohorts. Given the research gaps about mental health care practice, the increased understanding of the need for quality mental health care, and the rapidly evolving cultural landscape for LGBT persons, the need for research on mental health care provider continuing education regarding the needs of LGBT persons is clear. The UMD-PRC will establish and maintain a multi-disciplinary faculty of researchers; a diverse and well- connected community advisory board of stakeholders; identify promising mental health care cultural competency practice tools and strategies; and evaluate, translate, disseminate and communicate research findings and beneficial tools and strategies to all stakeholders to improve mental health care for LGBT persons. Ultimately, the UMD-PRC strives to be a national resource for tools and strategies aimed at improving the effectiveness of mental health care for LGBT persons.

马里兰州预防研究中心（UMD-PRC）旨在更好地理解和改善心理 性别和性别少数民族（LGBT）人的医疗保健。 LGBT患者的心理健康问题率更高 以及相关的同时发生的健康问题，例如使用物质，性冒险，饮食失调，肥胖，欺负 胜利和癌症。有时应对多个同时发生条件的应对和/或协同作用 加剧心理健康问题并进一步增加LGBT人对心理保健的需求，这需要是 解决，以便他们可以有效利用其他形式的医疗保健和需要的社会服务。不幸的是，那里 在理解LGBT人士心理保健的理解方面是否有很多差距。关于LGBT的文献很少 人们在心理保健方面的经验及其感知需求，经过科学验证的工具和方法来评估 LGBT人员的心理保健，并评估了文化能力培训和精神的技术帮助 LGBT客户的医疗保健提供者。同时，科学文献正在发展有关心理健康和相关的发展 LGBT人群中的健康分布以及解决该系统中心理健康的重要性， 组织，社会和个人层面。此外，有关LGBT的社会出勤和政府政策 人们正在迅速发展，创造了新的具有文化敏感的医疗保健词汇，医疗保健提供要求， 以及更多的LGBT识别年轻同伙的人。考虑到有关心理保健实践的研究差距， 对高质量心理保健的需求以及LGBT的文化景观迅速发展的了解增加了 人，关于LGBT需求的精神保健提供者继续教育的研究需求 人很清楚。 UMD-PRC将建立并维护研究人员的多学科教师；多元化 互联社区咨询委员会；确定有希望的心理保健文化能力 练习工具和策略；并评估，翻译，传播和交流研究结果和有益 为所有利益相关者提供工具和策略，以改善LGBT人士的心理保健。最终，UMD-PRC 努力成为旨在提高心理保健有效性的工具和策略的国家资源 LGBT人。