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ReviewResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2025

Potential Harm in the Psychological Treatment of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.

Caitlin M Pinciotti, Claire E Cusack, Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, Ilana Seager van Dyk, M Paz Galupo

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Review in Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

6 authors.

Caitlin M PinciottiMenninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, 1977 Butler Blvd., Houston, TX, 77030, USA. Caitlin.Pinciotti@bcm.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6481-3348
Claire E CusackDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Craig Rodriguez-SeijasDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Lorenzo Lorenzo-LuacesDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
Ilana Seager van DykSchool of Psychology, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
M Paz GalupoBrown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA.

Funding

Quality Assurance and Quality Control Project Management: Improving Submissions and Study Conduct in the Human Subjects Research Prior Approval ProcessUL1TR002529 · NCATS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI MOE, SHARON M, WIEHE, SARAH ELIZABETH · 2018 to 2022
$27.2M
Translating Measures of Visual Experience to Children with Autism and Down SyndromeKL2TR002530 · NCATS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI ROBB, SHERI L · 2018 to 2022
$4.8M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR002530NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002529
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals show disproportionately high rates of mental distress relative to their cisgender, heterosexual peers resulting from minority stress, or unique identity-related stressors. The majority of research on minority stress and mental health in SGM individuals has focused on adults, a notable gap given that SGM youth face unique developmental factors that intersect with identity development and availability of support resources. SGM youth therefore represent a critical population for the mental health workforce to serve competently. Mental health providers risk significant harm to their SGM youth clients if they do not understand the mechanisms underlying mental health disparities in this population. This article will review treatment practices that carry the potential for harm with SGM youth, including harms that are more overt and attempt to change SGM identities (i.e., so-called "conversion therapies"), and others that are more covert, such as neglecting to consider SGM identity in conceptualization and treatment (e.g., eating disorders), pathologizing SGM identity and behaviors (e.g., personality disorders, social anxiety), and reinforcing stigma related to SGM identities (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder). Accordingly, this article reviews each of these potential harms in detail and provides alternative recommendations for affirming and justice-based treatment for SGM youth.

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PsychotherapySexual and Gender MinoritiesAdolescentFemaleHumansMaleSocial StigmaAffirming treatmentConversion therapySexual and gender minority youthSOGIECETreatment harm

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PMID39644408

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