Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core Principles and Skills to Reduce the Mental Health Care "GAP" for Transgender Youths.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

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. Accordingly, transgender youths have low care satisfaction and high rates of treatment dropout, further exacerbating existing mental health inequities. To reduce these inequities, mental health providers need knowledge and skills to enhance transgender youths' treatment engagement and benefits. However, a comprehensive set of practices addressing the needs of transgender youth patients and their providers does not exist. The authors developed gender-affirming psychotherapy (GAP), an evidence-informed set of skills and principles to augment mental health treatments for transgender youth

SUBMITTER: Price MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11530703 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature