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Questions:
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What is the overall objective in helping families learn to support their LGBT children?
2.
An in-depth study of LGBT adolescents and families found that family reactions to their LGBT children were much more varied and hopeful than had been previously assumed. What are the family reactions to their LGBT children?
3.
How do Families respond to their LGBT children?
4.
Given the early ages of coming out and the critical need for family education and guidance, what is a significant barrier to addressing the prevention, care, and support needs of LGBT children and adolescents?
5.
The Family Acceptance Project has worked with many racially and ethnically diverse families, LGBT youth, and young adults, and the practitioners who care for them, what are the series of multicultural family education and guidance materials and assessment tools? |
Answers:
A. Ranges from highly rejecting to highly accepting; Rejecting families become less rejecting over time; Parents and families want to help their LGBT children and to keep their families together; Parents and caregivers who are perceived as rejecting their LGBT children and who engage in rejecting behaviors (e.g., trying to change their child’s sexual orientation and gender expression); Negative outcomes for many LGBT youth, including suicide, homelessness, and placement in foster care or juvenile justice facilities, can be prevented or reduced; and Negative outcomes for many LGBT youth, including suicide, homelessness, and placement in foster care or juvenile justice facilities, can be prevented or reduced.
B. Not to change their values or deeply-held beliefs. Instead, practitioners should aim to meet parents, families, and caregivers “where they are,” to build an alliance to support their LGBT children, and to help them understand that family reactions that are experienced as rejection by their LGBT child contribute to serious health concerns and inhibit their child’s development and well- being.
C. Family Education Booklets; Family Education Videos; and Assessment and Training.
D. Based on what they know, what they hear from their family, clergy, close friends, and information sources, including providers who may also have misinformation about sexual orientation and gender identity, especially in childhood and adolescence.
E. The dearth of targeted services to help diverse families support their LGBT children. |
