In Search for the Many Faces of Community Resilience Among LGBT Individuals. Issue 1 (13th January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wong, Frank Y.
• Is Part Of: American journal of community psychology. Volume 55:Issue 1/2(2015)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 190
• Publication Date: 2015-01-13
• Subjects: LGBT individuals -- Resilience -- Culture; Community psychology -- Periodicals; Community mental health services -- Periodicals; Community psychiatry -- Periodicals; Community Mental Health Services -- Periodicals; Community Psychiatry -- Periodicals; 155.905
• DOI: 10.1007/s10464-015-9703-5
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0091-0562

Abstract

Abstract: Many countries (e.g., Egypt, Russia, and Uganda) have very draconian laws against LGBT individuals. Despite facing such adversity or hostility many LGBT individuals do strive and maintain their sense of self‐worth. How do they do it? The collection of papers in this special issue attempts to provide some answers to this question. I will attempt to analyze two overlapping issues in these papers, and how they might inform LGBT research using a resilience lens.