Toward Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Sexual Minority Women: Voices From Stakeholders and Community Members.

ABSTRACT: Sexual minority women (SMW) experience an elevated risk of mental health problems compared to heterosexual women. However, knowledge gaps remain regarding whether cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions meet SMW's mental health needs. Further, virtually no studies have integrated stakeholder (i.e., researchers with content expertise in SMW's health and clinical providers who work with SMW) and community member (i.e., SMW) perspectives to identify CBT approaches that address SMW-specific issues. This study used qualitative data gathered from 39 SMW who reported depression, anxiety, suicidality, and heavy drinking in the past 3 months and 16 content experts and clinical providers to obtain information relevant to enhancing CBT for SMW. In addition, we used thematic analysis to ident

SUBMITTER: Scheer JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10403251 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature