Critical psychology perspectives on LGBTQ+ mental health: current issues and interventions.

Sexual and gender minorities continue to face inequalities, discrimination and hostility, and in some parts of the world, significant threat. Tailored services can go a long way to encourage access and reduce levels of poor mental health in the LGBTQ community especially where LGBTQ people have played a part in the design. Moreover, it is important to understand how LGBTQ+ intersectionality impacts the determinants of poorer mental health to allow us to design suitable interventions that are accessible across a range of sexual and gender minority identities. Lower mastery was linked with higher reported minority stressors and poorer psychological health in this sample whereas authenticity did not mediate the observed associations between minority stress and mental health. [Extracted from the article]