ERIC Number: EJ1419350
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 25
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"When We Go to Ask for Help, They Don't Understand How to Help Us": Understanding How Youth with Childhood Histories of Conduct Problems Link Sexuality and Gender to School-Based Service Use
Shayla Chilliak; Alexa Martin-Storey; Michèle Déry; Caroline Elizabeth Temcheff; Mélanie Lapalme
Psychology in the Schools, v61 n5 p2160-2184 2024
Gender and, to a lesser extent, sexual identity, are relevant factors in understanding variance in the prevalence, consequences, and treatment of conduct problems. The current study uses thematic analysis to explore how youth with early-onset conduct problems and extensive histories of school-based service use perceive gender and sexuality as impacting their service use experiences. Qualitative analysis of interviews with 41 youth (17-21 years old; 53.7% women) yielded themes pertaining to gender, sexual identity, and discrimination in service use contexts. Identified themes included homophobia in service use and adjacent school contexts, stereotypes around masculinity and femininity as conditioning peer and school staff's behavior, and salience of sexuality across developmental stages and historical timeframes. Results suggest that increased school staff training and school-based interventions be implemented to support gender and sexual diversity, both within services for conduct problems and more broadly in school contexts. In particular, the current findings highlight homophobia as a factor limiting boys' access to mental health services.
Descriptors: Young Adults, Youth, Sexual Identity, Sex, Social Discrimination, Sex Stereotypes, Mental Health, Well Being, Academic Support Services, Behavior Problems
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Language: English
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