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Emotional Disability Caused by Anxiety or Depression related to Non-heterosexual Orientation

Emotional Disability Caused by Anxiety or Depression related to Non-heterosexual Orientation. By Kelsie B. Eckert. Introduction. What it is? Information Concerns? The Cycle of Concealment How to recognize it? What causes these behaviors? How to help? Resources References.

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Emotional Disability Caused by Anxiety or Depression related to Non-heterosexual Orientation

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  1. Emotional DisabilityCaused by Anxiety or Depression related toNon-heterosexual Orientation By Kelsie B. Eckert

  2. Introduction • What it is? • Information • Concerns? • The Cycle of Concealment • How to recognize it? • What causes these behaviors? • How to help? • Resources • References

  3. What it is? • Emotional Disabilities are disabilities caused by emotion that keep students from performing academically. • For gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual students, these disabilities are often caused by anxiety and/or depression.

  4. Information • In general, studies have shown that these students have greater internalizing and externalizing problems than their heterosexual peers. • emotional disabilities are often caused by family or community stigmatization, victimization, or a general lack of support

  5. Concerns? • 44% of students with emotional disabilities drop out of high school. • Students are coming out at younger ages and the younger the age the increased morbidity.

  6. The Cycle of Concealment • Hiding attribute may provide relief from prejudice or discrimination. • Individual cannot escape the knowledge that society devalues the attribute. • Society’s devaluation of the attribute may lead to a negative self-regard. • Restart cycle.

  7. How to recognize it? • Behaviors May Include: • Impression management. • Social avoidance and isolation. • Increased importance of feedback. • Impaired close relationship functioning

  8. What causes these behaviors? • Stressors. These include: • Decisions on whether to disclose their attribute. • Anxiety about being found out. • Feeling isolated from similarly attributed others. • Feeling detached from one’s true self

  9. How to help? • Reattribute distress to concealment—not innate flaws. • Encourage self-disclosure of non-heterosexual orientation in realistic—non-hostile environments. • If possible, connect to similarly attributed persons.

  10. Resources • Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) website • Parents of LGBT children website • The Plymouth, NH PFLAG chapter meets the 2nd Tuesday each month 7-9pm at Whole Village Resource Center on Highland Street, Plymouth. Call 603-536-3823.

  11. References • Gore, M. C., & Gore, M. C. (2010). Inclusion strategies for secondary classrooms: Keys for struggling learners. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. • Elze, D. E. (2002). Risk factors for internalizing and externalizing problems among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents.”Social Work Research, 26(2), 89. • Pachankis, J. E. (2007). “The psychological implications of concealing a stigma: A cognitive-affective-behavioral model.”Psychological Bulletin, 133(2), 328-34.

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