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Health Equity

Healthcare

Mental Health

5 Ways to Empower Someone without Saying “You’re Strong"
A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees by Angelina Jalonen and Paul Cilia La Corte
ALGBTIC Competencies for Counseling Transgender Clients (pdf)
All psychologies are indigenous psychologies: Reflections on psychology in a global era
Anti-oppression psychotherapy: An emancipatory integration of intersectionality into psychotherapy
Assessment and Care for Transgender Clients in the Setting of Severe Mental Illness or Trauma
Behavioral Health Assessments and Referral for Gender-Affirming Surgery
Behavioral Health Care for LGBTQIA+ People
Behavioral Health Care Outside the Binary
Caring for Transgender People with Severe Mental Illness
Collective Grief and the Grieving Process
Culturally Responsive Counseling for People of Color: A Letter from Client to Therapist
Decolonize Mental Health: Examine 10 Assumptions of Eurocentric/North American Psychology
Decolonizing Mental Health: Reexamine "Cultural Stigma"
Healing Personal Trauma is Not the Same As Healing Cultural Trauma
How Community Trauma and Intersectionality Influence Mental Health
How to Set Culturally Attuned Boundaries and Why It Matters in Therapy
Intersectionality: Considerations in counseling (video)
Intersectionality and Psychotherapy
Intersectionality in psychology: A rainbow perspective
Intersectional Therapy
Medicalization and the Medical Model
Mental Health Effects of Racism on Indigenous Communities
Mental Health for Transgender and Gender-diverse People
Moving Beyond Mere Cultural Competence in Counseling: What to Know
Overcoming Community Trauma
Poverty and Psychology: From Global Perspective to Local Practice, edited by Stuart C Carr & Tod Sloan
Providing Mental Health Assessments for Gender Affirming Surgery Referral Letters
Reenvisioning Therapy with Women of Color: A Black Feminist Healing Perspective by Lani V. Jones
Systemic Racism Takes a Toll on BIPOC Mental Health
Ten Tips for Putting Intersectionality into Practice
The Gender Affirmative Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Children, edited by Colt Keo-Meier and Diane Ehrensaft
The Mental Effects of Racism on the Latinx Community
The Social Justice Myth and Why Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+ Folks and Other Marginalized Groups Are Fearful of Therapy
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals by Stephanie A. Brill and Rachel Pepper
Thoughts on how Western "Superiority" Perpetuates a White Savior Complex
Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens by Stephanie A. Brill and Lisa Kenney
Understanding Your Identities
Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Getting Needed Mental Health Care, Report Finds
What is deinstitutionalization?
What We All Need to Know About the Term “Intersectionality"
Why Medicalizing Madness Has Not Worked: Introducing a Disability Studies Lens to Mental-Health Service Users and Providers

Social Work

Other Service Providers

Providing Inclusive Care and Services for the Transgender and Gender Diverse Community: A Pharmacy Resource Guide (PDF)

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Shelters

Transition-Related Care

A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients by Sand Chang, Anneliese Singh, and lore m. dickey
Developmental Approaches to Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse Youth and Adolescents
Feminizing Gender-Affirming Surgeries
Gender-Affirmative Health Care
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy: Estrogen, Anti-Androgens, and Progesterone
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy: Testosterone
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Supporting Whole Person Gender Affirming Perioperative Health and Care
Non-Medical Gender Affirmation
Providing Inclusive Care and Services for the Transgender and Gender Diverse Community: A Pharmacy Resource Guide (pdf)

Sexual & Reproductive Health

Aging

Affirming Care for Transgender Older Adults (podcast)
Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Older Adults
Housing and Older LGBTQIA+ Adults – Part 1 & Part 2
How to be an Ally to Transgender Older Adults (pdf in English and Spanish)
LGBT Aging 101: What You Need To Know About Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Older Adults and Caregivers
Meeting at the Crossroads of HIV & Aging
Older LGBTQIA+ Adults and Sexual Health
Sexual Violence, Elder Abuse, and Sexuality of Transgender Adults Age 50+: Results of Three Surveys (pdf)
Taking a Sexual Assessment for Older Adults

Youth

Addressing Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction, and Obesity Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Addressing Obesity, Feeding and Eating Disorders, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder among LGBTQ Youth
Developmental Approaches to Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse Youth and Adolescents
Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Care for Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents
Gender Non-Conforming Youth: Discipline Disparities, School Push-out and the School-To-Prison-Pipeline (PDF) - Note: Indigenous folks have brought up frustrations with comparing systems of oppression to pipelines. They ask that we use other words, such as pathways or workflows.
Healthcare for LGBTQIA+ Youth
LGBTQ Youth and Sexual Abuse: Information for Mental Health Professionals
Puberty Blockers and Hormone Therapy for Gender Diverse Youth and Adolescents
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth is Violence Prevention (pdf)
Supporting LGBTQIA+ Youth Who Have Experienced Trafficking

Sizism

Oral Health

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Racism

Asian Americans' Reports of Their Health Care Experiences
Black Americans don’t trust our healthcare system — here's why
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
Black newborns are less likely to die in Black doctors' care
Black patients may do better at hospitals with more racial diversity
Combating Racism and Place-ism in Medicine
Doctors and Diversity: Improving Health Care for Asian Americans
How we fail black patients in pain
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present
Mental Illness is not a “White Person Problem”: 4 Reasons Mental Illness is Ignored in the Latinx Community, and Why That Needs to End
Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence by Joanna Brooks
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy a Degruy
Racial Bias in Medical Treatment
Racial Discrimination and Health Among Asian Americans: Evidence, Assessment, and Directions for Future Research
Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans
Racism has a toxic effect: Study may explain how racial discrimination raises the risks of disease among African Americans
The Discrimination Black Americans Face When It Comes to Pain Management
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Impact of Race and Racism on Eating Disorders
This is What it's Like to Navigate Healthcare While Black
Trauma From Slavery Can Actually Be Passed Down Through Your Genes
Why Health Care Is Different If You're Black, Latino, Or Poor
Why Many Latinos Dread Going to the Doctor
'You are not listening to me': Black women on pain and implicit bias in medicine
White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

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