Resilience, Strength, Empowerment and Thriving of LGTBQIA+ Youth
A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2025 | Viewed by 671
Special Issue Editors
Interests: adolescent development; LGBTQIA+ community; addiction and mental health; restorative justice; foster care; first-generation college students and rural communities
Interests: addictions and recovery; LGBTQ+ concerns in counseling; multicultural counseling; career counseling; engaging students in active education
Interests: clinical competencies and practices to counsel the LGBTQ+ population; school counseling practice
Interests: outcomes in supervision and counseling; special populations in counseling; reality therapy and choice theory
Interests: internalized homophobia within the LGBTQIA community; narrative approaches in qualitative research; the application of feminist counseling theories, specifically relational cultural theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions for this Special Issue of Youth, titled “Resilience, Strength, Empowerment and Thriving of LGTBQIA+ Youth”. This issue will be focused on young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and/or other diverse and vibrant sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQIA+).
While many research and scholarly efforts focus on the wounds, trauma, and stress that LGBTQIA+ youth endure, we recognize a scarcity of work on the resilience, strength, empowerment, coping, and thriving of LGBTQIA+ youth. We are interested in promoting the visibility of a more balanced narrative that includes both the familiar themes of struggle and the growth that emerges as a result of and in spite of those challenges.
This Special Issue aims to expand our perspectives on how LGBTQIA+ young people are flourishing and how we can support their continued growth, positive social connectedness, and development into adulthood. We invite contributions across disciplines and diverse methodologies from researchers and practitioners around the globe.
Dr. Erin Stevenson
Dr. Gregory Sandman
Dr. James McGinn
Dr. Quentin Hunter
Dr. Nathaniel L. Smith
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Youth is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- LGBTQIA+ youth
- resilience
- empowerment
- adolescents
- strengths
- thriving
- well-being
- coping
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