Minority Stress
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English - October 18, 2021 07:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBSocial Sciences Science lgbt gay lesbian bisexual transgender sexual health hiv/aids education mental health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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PRS#9: Minority Stress
Members of the rainbow community experience mental and physical adversities significantly more often compared to their straight counterparts. In this episode, I’m talking about minority stress – the conceptual framework that helps to explain discrepancy in mental health between straight and non-straight people.
If you want to read more on this, here are some worth mentioning papers:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072932/
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-97197-010
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027273581000125X
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12415
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