Increasing Effective Mental Health Care for LGBT Clients

加强对 LGBT 客户的有效心理保健

• 批准号: 10005883
• 负责人: BRADLEY O BOEKELOO
• 金额: $ 74.99万
• 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 2023-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10005883
• 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.

马里兰大学预防研究中心 (UMD-PRC) 旨在更好地了解和改善精神疾病 性少数群体和性别少数群体 (LGBT) 的医疗保健面临较高的心理健康问题。 以及相关的并发健康问题，例如药物滥用、性冒险、饮食失调、肥胖、欺凌 受害和癌症，有时是应对不当和/或多种并发疾病的协同效应。 加剧心理健康问题，进一步增加 LGBT 人群对心理保健的需求，这需要 不幸的是，他们可以有效地利用其他形式的医疗保健和所需的社会服务。 对 LGBT 人群心理健康护理的理解存在许多差距，有关 LGBT 的文献很少。 人们在精神卫生保健方面的经验及其感知的需求、经过科学验证的评估工具和方法 LGBT 人群的心理健康护理，评估心理文化能力培训和技术援助 与此同时，关于心理健康及相关问题的科学文献正在不断发展。 LGBT 人群的健康差异以及在系统中解决该人群心理健康问题的重要性， 组织、社会和个人层面。 人们正在迅速发展，创造了新的文化敏感的医疗保健词汇、医疗保健提供要求、 鉴于心理保健实践方面的研究空白， 加深对优质心理保健需求以及 LGBT 文化景观快速发展的了解 人，需要对精神卫生保健提供者进行有关 LGBT 需求的继续教育研究 UMD-PRC 将建立并维持一支多元化且良好的研究人员队伍； 利益相关者相互联系的社区咨询委员会；确定有前途的精神卫生保健文化能力 实践工具和策略；以及评估、翻译、传播和交流研究成果和有益的成果 最终，UMD-PRC 向所有利益相关者提供改善 LGBT 人群心理健康护理的工具和策略。 努力成为旨在提高精神卫生保健有效性的工具和战略的国家资源 LGBT 人士。