State of the science: LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy

J Burger, JE Pachankis - Behavior Therapy, 2024 - Elsevier
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience significantly higher levels of
depression, anxiety, and behavioral comorbidities (ie, substance use, suicide) compared to …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapies for emotional disorders

C Schaeuffele, LE Meine, A Schulz, MC Weber… - Nature human …, 2024 - nature.com
Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural psychotherapy (TD-CBT) may facilitate the treatment
of emotional disorders. Here we investigate short-and long-term efficacy of TD-CBT for …

A model for adapting evidence-based interventions to be LGBQ-affirmative: Putting minority stress principles and case conceptualization into clinical research and …

JE Pachankis, ZA Soulliard, F Morris… - Cognitive and Behavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mental health field now possesses clinical trials attesting to the efficacy of affirmative
practice with sexual minority individuals. With the goal of efficiently moving the results of …

Mechanisms linking distal minority stress and depressive symptoms in a longitudinal, population-based study of gay and bisexual men: A test and extension of the …

MR Lattanner, JE Pachankis… - Journal of Consulting …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Gay and bisexual men have significantly higher rates of depression than
heterosexual men. The minority stress theory (Meyer, 2003) proposed that distal minority …

Training in LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy: A randomized controlled trial across LGBTQ community centers.

JE Pachankis, ZA Soulliard… - Journal of Consulting …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: This randomized controlled trial examined whether an 11-week synchronous (ie,
real-time) online training in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual or …

Guided LGBTQ-affirmative internet cognitive-behavioral therapy for sexual minority youth's mental health: A randomized controlled trial of a minority stress treatment …

JE Pachankis, ZA Soulliard, EK Layland… - … Research and Therapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) addresses the adverse
impacts of minority stress. However, this treatment has rarely been tested in randomized …

The role of shame in the sexual-orientation disparity in mental health: A prospective population-based study of multimodal emotional reactions to stigma

JE Pachankis, ML Hatzenbuehler… - Clinical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the prominence of shame in stigma theories, its role in explaining population-level
mental-health disparities between the stigmatized and nonstigmatized has not been …

Moderators of LGBQ-affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy: ESTEEM is especially effective among Black and Latino sexual minority men.

JR Keefe, C Rodriguez-Seijas, SD Jackson… - Journal of consulting …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ)-affirmative cognitive behavioral
therapy (CBT) focused on minority stress processes can address gay and bisexual men's …

Hypervigilance: An understudied mediator of the longitudinal relationship between stigma and internalizing psychopathology among sexual-minority young adults

NL Hollinsaid, JE Pachankis… - Clinical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Hypervigilance is often theoretically invoked as a psychological mechanism linking stigma to
internalizing psychopathology among sexual minorities. Empirically, however …

Thwarted belonging needs: A mechanism prospectively linking multiple levels of stigma and interpersonal outcomes among sexual minorities

MR Lattanner, ML Hatzenbuehler - Journal of Social Issues, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The association between stigma and adverse interpersonal outcomes is well established.
However, the mechanisms underlying this association have yet to be comprehensively …