The LGBTQ Supportive Environments Inventory: Methods for quantifying supportive environments for LGBTQ youths

Creating LGBTQ-Inclusive Care and Work Environments.

In considering the full depth of inclusion in care and work environments (and developing inclusive engagement skills for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning [LGBTQ] patients and their families), professional development leaders must bring these discussions and shared learnings into the open. Understanding the LGBTQ population's unique needs is essential to providing person...

Creating Supportive Work Environments for People With Mental Illness

❊ To encourage readers to consider environmental interventions for clients with mental illness who have goals related to work. ❊ To identify key physical, cultural, and institutional aspects of workplace environments that facilitate or hinder clients’ participation in work. ❊ To suggest strategies to create supportive work environments. ❊ To offer a broad conceptualization of work and alternati...

Healthy cities as catalysts for caring and supportive environments.

'Caring and Supportive Environments' are fundamental to a social model of health and were a core theme of Phase V (2009-13) of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network. Deploying the methodology of realist evaluation, this article synthesizes qualitative evidence from 112 highly structured case studies from 68 Network cities and 71 responses to a General Evaluation Questionnaire, which asked cit...

The “Second Generation”: LGBTQ Youth with LGBTQ Parents

Do lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) 1 parents have LGBTQ children? Yes, they do—sometimes—just as heterosexual and gender conforming parents do. Yet, research on the psychosocial development of LGBTQ youth has focused exclusively on adolescents from heterosexualand gender-conforming-parent families. This line of inquiry has revealed that LGBTQ identity formation can be a l...

1 Introducing LGBTQ psychology