Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core Principles and Skills to Reduce the Mental Health Care "GAP" for Transgender Youths (Q28108)
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- Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core Principles and Skills to Reduce the Mental Health Care "GAP" for Transgender Youths.
- Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP)
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| English | Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core Principles and Skills to Reduce the Mental Health Care "GAP" for Transgender Youths |
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Transgender youths are more likely than cisgender youths to need mental health care because of their high exposure to discrimination and victimization, including within health care systems. (English)
Accordingly, transgender youths have low care satisfaction and high rates of treatment dropout, further exacerbating existing mental health inequities. (English)
To reduce these inequities, mental health providers need knowledge and skills to enhance transgender youths' treatment engagement and benefits. (English)
However, a comprehensive set of practices addressing the needs of transgender youth patients and their providers does not exist. (English)
The authors developed gender-affirming psychotherapy (GAP), an evidence-informed set of skills and principles to augment mental health treatments for transgender youths. (English)
GAP was developed by using a human-centered design, a methodological approach for creating interventions that prioritize the needs of key stakeholders, which in this study included mental health providers and transgender youths and their parents (N=36). (English)
A scoping review of the literature and stakeholder focus groups were conducted to create GAP, which encompasses core principles and skills to enhance mental health services for transgender youths. (English)
GAP encompasses 27 principles and 38 skills, organized within 10 domains. (English)
All principles and skills were designed to be relevant for various provider types (e.g., psychiatrists and social workers) and to be flexibly adapted to meet diverse patient needs. (English)
GAP offers a scalable and flexible approach to addressing the growing mental health care needs of transgender youths. (English)
The findings of this study suggest that a human-centered design is a feasible and efficient method for developing interventions to address health inequities. (English)
Maggi A (English)
Price (English)
MA
Marina (English)
Rakhilin (English)
M
Kara (English)
Johansen (English)
K
Lisa (English)
Collins (English)
L
John E (English)
Pachankis (English)
JE
Aaron R (English)
Lyon (English)
AR
Marissa (English)
Allen (English)
M
1 November 2024
1 November 2024
Dr. Price is the founder and director of Affirm Solutions, L.L.C., which provides gender-affirming psychotherapy training online. (English)
Dr. Pachankis reports receiving royalties from Oxford University Press for books related to LGBTQ-affirmative mental health treatments. (English)
The other authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests. (English)