Attachment‐Based Family Therapy for LGBTQ Youth in a Community Setting: A Community‐Engaged, Qualitative Pilot Study of Youth and Parent Experiences.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth who experience family rejection are at increased risk for depression and suicide. Attachment‐Based Family Therapy (ABFT) demonstrates promising results for reducing this risk with LGBTQ youth. This community‐participatory, mixed‐method stu...

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Publicado en:Journal of Marital & Family Therapy Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
Autores principales: Heiden‐Rootes, Katie, Linsenmeyer, Whitney, Russon, Jody, Levy, Suzanne, Diamond, Guy
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2025
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          Heiden‐Rootes, Katie
          Linsenmeyer, Whitney
          Russon, Jody
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          Medical Family Therapy Program, Family & Community Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Saint Louis University, St. Louis Missouri,, USA
          Nutrition and Dietetics Department, Doisy College of Health Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis Missouri,, USA
          Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA,, USA
          ABFT International Training Institute LLC, Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
          Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA,, USA
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        LGBTQ+ youth
        Mental health
        Emotion-focused therapy
        Family relations
        Psychological distress
        Qualitative research
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          LGBTQ+ youth
          Mental health
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          Family relations
          Psychological distress
          Qualitative research
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          Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians)
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      ab: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth who experience family rejection are at increased risk for depression and suicide. Attachment‐Based Family Therapy (ABFT) demonstrates promising results for reducing this risk with LGBTQ youth. This community‐participatory, mixed‐method study piloted the use of ABFT with LGBTQ youth. Fourteen families completed treatment with adolescent youth, pre‐ and post‐individual and family interviews, and a measure of youth mental health. Post‐therapy, 80% of youth showed a significant reduction in psychological distress. The qualitative thematic analysis constructed four themes describing how families present to therapy with emotional distress, caregiver support needed during ABFT, how caregivers acquired new listening and communication skills, and LGBTQ youth experiences of finding freedom to explore and talk about sexual and gender identities. Implications from the study suggest the need to challenge heteronormative emotional structures of families for increasing emotional support of fathers with their LGBTQ children.
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