User talk:Gracielap906/Suicide among LGBT youth/Bibliography

This chapter explores mental health concerns and suicide of LGBTQ college students on campus due to different circumstances including bullying and cyberbullying. This chapter is important because it addresses the factors that lead to suicide and the preventative measures that need to be taken to help this community with dealing with problems that can increase their risks of suicide. Studies have shown that the LGBTQ community are more prone to depression, feelings of loneliness, and having fewer reasons for living than their heterosexual peers. This specific article is important for my research because it explains some of the factors as to why youth in the LGTBQ community attempt suicide or have thoughts pertaining to it. It also gives further insights as to how to prevent or help this community with their mental health and helping them feel less alone.

This article explores the depth of risk that the LGBT-Heterosexual community go through that include not only bullying but other factors as well. It is discussed that the LGBTQ community is more likely to become victims of bullying than their heterosexual peers which increases the reasons as to why this community is more inclined to thinking of suicide and sometimes even attempting it. This article points out the problems with schools and their enforcement of generic anti-bullying programs and their uselessness towards prevention of bullying for the LGBTQ community. This article will help explain how even if schools have taken the approach to prevent bullying, their generic anti bullying programs don’t access gender orientation and expression into the anti-bullying program. This article is helpful in explaining how bullying isn’t the full problem, but the way that schools handle addressing bullying as well in regards to LGBTQ students. This article focuses more on the suicide portion and the reasons as to why the LGBTQ think about suicide in the first place. Some of the factors that are discussed that lead to suicide thoughts are bullying, sense of hopelessness, depression, etc. Suicide is one of the third leading causes of death amongst the youth and the LGBTQ are at greater risks in regard to suicide and thought surrounding this notion because of difficulty connecting and feeling acceptance amongst their peers and family. This article brings to light the statistics of the LGBTQ community and suicide being a factor involved in their life at any point and at any time. It’s important to look more in-depth to these kinds of articles because when the problem is analyzed from the root of the problem to early occurrences, it is possible to help the LGTQ youth from making irrational decisions and helping them achieve a healthier mental mindset.

This article focuses on how the LGBTQ youth need healthy family connections and that the reactions that their family gives their children can impact their mental health. There is a lot of discrimination for the LGBTQ community and it primarily starts at home with family members. This can lead to unhealthy mental health issues and can cause suicidal thoughts to begin. The LGBTQ youth who come out to their families usually face discrimination and rejection from their families. This can also lead to a lot of LGBTQ youth to become homeless because they are kicked out of their homes or they don’t feel welcome with their families because of their lack of acceptance. It's important to acknowledge that a youth’s mental health is largely influenced by family and friends. This article talks about how they perceived their social and economic experiences compared to their heterosexual peers. This brings more insights to school life coming into play and how different it is navigating through this point in time when you’re just starting to figure yourself out as a LGBTQ youth. School is where most of the discrimination and bullying and sense of loneliness starts to deepen. This is the start of the LGBTQ’s journey and grasp of how they will face further discrimination in society because of close minded people not accepting other going beyond perceived “norms”. Mental health and suicidal thoughts begin to form once the LGBTQ youth come out and are openly out not only in their family setting but their school setting as well. Porta, Carolyn M, Gower, Amy L, Mehus, Christopher J, Yu, Xiaohui, Saewyc, Elizabeth M, and Eisenberg, Marla E. 2017. ““Kicked Out”: LGBTQ Youths' Bathroom Experiences and Preferences.” Journal of Adolescence (London, England.) 56: 107–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2017.02.005. This article helps clear up the feelings that the LGBTQ youth have in regard to needing to go to the bathroom and gives us experiences they have in regard to this. They face a lot of dangerous situations when they go to the restroom such as harassment violence from their peers because of their gender identification which leads to them skipping school for safety reasons. It explains a study in which the LGBTQ recounted their experiences, both positive and negative, in regard to having to go to the restroom. To sum up the study, unanimously most of the LGBTQ youth would prefer to have gender neutral bathrooms because it would provide them with a safe space where they would not have to worry as much over violence or harassment. Gracielap906 (talk) 18:55, 9 April 2021 (UTC)