Bryan N Cochran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1253237 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bryan N Cochran |
| NOMBRES | Bryan N |
| APELLIDO | Cochran |
| FIRMA | COCHRAN B N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Montana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7102-7492 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 360 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Availability of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Specific Substance Use Services
Background: In 2007, Cochran, Peavy, and Robohm conducted a study of treatment programs that indicated that they provided specialized services for gay and lesbian clients; however, phone calls to these agencies revealed that over 90% of these agencies actually did not provide services that were discernibly different from the agencies’ general services. Objectives: Given the progress and development since 2007 regarding awareness of SGM (sexual an…
Gender and sexuality alliance advisors' perceptions of self‐efficacy and social emotional competency
The presence of a Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) reduces risk for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth across a variety of domains, but little is known about the adult advisor‐level variables contributing to these observed benefits. This study explored relationships between advisors' tenure, receipt of professional development, self‐efficacy, and social emotional competencies (SECs). Participants ( N = 167) completed an online survey measu…
For all the role asks of us, it gives us so much more”
School-based Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs have well-documented benefits for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and their allies. However, little is known about what constitutes usual practice in these clubs, nor is much known about the adult advisors who serve as important safe adult relationships for SGM youth in schools. As such, the present study conducted a survey with 167 GSA advisors to gain a better understanding of usual …
Real-time associations between discrimination and anxious and depressed mood among sexual and gender minorities
While identity concealment may reduce exposure to discrimination and victimization, we found that concealment and prior victimization predict heightened reactivity to daily discrimination experiences. Additional research is needed to further explicate real-time effects of minority stress exposure, and to develop interventions that may mitigate risk among SGM individuals with prior victimization exposure and higher levels of identity concealment i…
Mental health providers’ biases, knowledge, and treatment decision making with gender-minority clients
Inconcealable
Effects of state nondiscrimination laws on transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals' perceived community stigma and mental health
In this study, we investigated the potential effects of statewide nondiscrimination laws on community stigma, as well as its relationship with psychosocial stressors and mental health outcomes. Gender minority individuals (N = 120) completed an online survey containing psychosocial and mental health outcome measures. The experiences of participants who resided in states with and without nondiscrimination laws were compared in regard to perceived …
Gender performance stress and risk for psychopathology
The authors review research on the risk factors for, and prevalence of, psychological disorders as they relate to gender nonconformity in adolescence and adulthood. Findings from existing literature suggest gender nonconforming individuals are more likely to experience a variety of risk factors associated with psychopathology when compared with general and sexual minority populations. Associated with these risk factors, gender nonconforming indiv…
Metaphorical and literal trans* journeys are chronicled in Transgender Experience
The 2013 book Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility, edited by Chantal Zabus and David Coad, contributes a multinational perspective to the extant trans* scholarly literature. The editors have assembled a collection of personal narratives, scholarly essays, and a photographic narrative that introduce the reader to aspects of the trans* experience that are likely to be novel and enlightening
Sexual minority stress and suicide risk
These findings suggest that an adaptive personality profile may confer resilience in the face of sexual minority-based victimization. This study adds to our knowledge of sexual minority mental health and highlights new directions for future research
A Comparison of Sexual Minority Youth Who Attend Religiously Affiliated Schools and Their Nonreligious-School-Attending Counterparts
Sexual minority youth are an at-risk group for negative health outcomes. The present study compares descriptive characteristics and outness of sexual minority youth who attend religious schools to sexual minorities who do not attend religious schools, and also investigates if attending religiously affiliated schools is associated with levels of alcohol use and school belonging among sexual minority youth. Results indicated that sexual minority yo…
Bridging Theory and Practice in Working With Queer Youth
Julie Tilsen has recently published a text for working with queer youth that adopts a constructionist framework to understand how the therapeutic process helps elucidate identity through dialogue and narrative. Practitioners and researchers alike can benefit from the unique perspectives of Tilsen and the Q-Squad, five queer-identified youth whose voices help translate queer theory into more concrete examples and ideas
Experiences of Ex-Ex-Gay Individuals in Sexual Reorientation Therapy
Therapy meant to change someone's sexual orientation, or reorientation therapy, is still in practice despite statements from the major mental health organizations of its potential for harm. This qualitative study used an inductive content analysis strategy (Patton, 2002) to examine the experiences of thirty-eight individuals (31 males and seven females) who have been through a total of 113 episodes of reorientation therapy and currently identify …
Sexual Reorientation Therapy Interventions
While the topic of sexual reorientation therapy, that is, therapy intended to change one's sexual orientation from lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) to heterosexual, is not a new one, there is renewed interest in reorientation therapy. While most of the debate surrounding this controversial practice has focused on whether or not it should be banned, relatively few studies exist that detail what the process of reorientation therapy entails. The purp…
Interrupting Hate Through Literacy Performance
Blackburn's (2012) recent book invites readers to consider literacy as a tool for engaging lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth and their allies in the service of fostering a positive school climate. Her use of concrete examples, learned experiences from facilitating diverse literary performances, and insightful assimilation of relevant literature all result in an informative, engaging, and inspiring text
To Join or Not to Join
This retrospective study investigates 79 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) college students’ experiences attending high schools with gay-straight student alliances (GSAs). Responses to two, open-ended survey questions were analyzed thematically to identify reasons that underlie GSA non-membership and to model facets of GSAs that may impact the GSA-related experiences of LGBT youths. Three frames of reference for understanding GSA non…
Offsetting risks
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth are at risk for engaging in negative health behaviors and for experiencing at-school victimization. Specific benefits of attending a high school with a gay-straight alliance (GSA), including lower levels of suicidality, have been published; however, it is unclear whether GSAs are related to lower levels of problematic substance use, depressive symptoms, and psychological distress. Using a sampl…
Mental Health Characteristics of Sexual Minority Veterans
This study examines the mental health characteristics of sexual minority (lesbian, gay, and bisexual, or LGB) veterans, compared these characteristics to those of an existing Veterans Affairs (VA) sample, and examined the relationship between mental health and anxiety around concealment of LGB identity while in the military. Data regarding LGB veterans' (n = 409) military experiences and current mental health were collected via an online survey; …
Offsetting risks
Use of the Quality of Life Inventory for Measuring Quality of Life Changes in an Inpatient Psychiatric Population
This study measured self-reported quality of life at two time points for 50 diagnostically heterogeneous patients in a state-funded psychiatric hospital and evaluated the Quality of Life Inventory for assessing changes over inpatient treatment. Participants completed the Quality of Life Inventory after admission and before discharge. Improvement occurred in overall scores during participants' hospital stays. Analysis of domains showed improvement…
Substance Abuse Treatment Providers' Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Regarding Sexual Minorities
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals have been found to have elevated rates of substance use disorders when compared with heterosexuals. However, little is known about the challenges a sexual minority might face in presenting for substance use treatment. In this study, treatment providers' attitudes toward LGBT individuals were assessed among a sample of 46 substance abuse treatment counselors who provide publicly funded tre…
Challenges Faced by Homeless Sexual Minorities
Objectives. The goal of this study was to identify differences between gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) homeless youths and their heterosexual counterparts in terms of physical and mental health difficulties. Methods. A sample of 84 GLBT adolescents was matched in regard to age and self-reported gender with 84 heterosexual adolescents. The 2 samples were compared on a variety of psychosocial variables. Results. GLBT adolescents left…
Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking
In this article, a mental health help-seeking model is offered as a framework for understanding cultural and contextual factors that affect ethnic minority adolescents' pathways into mental health services. The effects of culture and context are profound across the entire help-seeking pathway, from problem identification to choice of treatment providers. The authors argue that an understanding of these help-seeking pathways provides insights into…
Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking
In this article, a mental health help-seeking model is offered as a framework for understanding cultural and contextual factors that affect ethnic minority adolescents' pathways into mental health services. The effects of culture and context are profound across the entire help-seeking pathway, from problem identification to choice of treatment providers. The authors argue that an understanding of these help-seeking pathways provides insights into…
Challenges Faced by Homeless Sexual Minorities
Objectives. The goal of this study was to identify differences between gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) homeless youths and their heterosexual counterparts in terms of physical and mental health difficulties. Methods. A sample of 84 GLBT adolescents was matched in regard to age and self-reported gender with 84 heterosexual adolescents. The 2 samples were compared on a variety of psychosocial variables. Results. GLBT adolescents left…
Offsetting risks
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth are at risk for engaging in negative health behaviors and for experiencing at-school victimization. Specific benefits of attending a high school with a gay-straight alliance (GSA), including lower levels of suicidality, have been published; however, it is unclear whether GSAs are related to lower levels of problematic substance use, depressive symptoms, and psychological distress. Using a sampl…
Mental Health Characteristics of Sexual Minority Veterans
This study examines the mental health characteristics of sexual minority (lesbian, gay, and bisexual, or LGB) veterans, compared these characteristics to those of an existing Veterans Affairs (VA) sample, and examined the relationship between mental health and anxiety around concealment of LGB identity while in the military. Data regarding LGB veterans' (n = 409) military experiences and current mental health were collected via an online survey; …
Experiences of Ex-Ex-Gay Individuals in Sexual Reorientation Therapy
Therapy meant to change someone's sexual orientation, or reorientation therapy, is still in practice despite statements from the major mental health organizations of its potential for harm. This qualitative study used an inductive content analysis strategy (Patton, 2002) to examine the experiences of thirty-eight individuals (31 males and seven females) who have been through a total of 113 episodes of reorientation therapy and currently identify …
Substance Abuse Treatment Providers' Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Regarding Sexual Minorities
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals have been found to have elevated rates of substance use disorders when compared with heterosexuals. However, little is known about the challenges a sexual minority might face in presenting for substance use treatment. In this study, treatment providers' attitudes toward LGBT individuals were assessed among a sample of 46 substance abuse treatment counselors who provide publicly funded tre…
Real-time associations between discrimination and anxious and depressed mood among sexual and gender minorities
While identity concealment may reduce exposure to discrimination and victimization, we found that concealment and prior victimization predict heightened reactivity to daily discrimination experiences. Additional research is needed to further explicate real-time effects of minority stress exposure, and to develop interventions that may mitigate risk among SGM individuals with prior victimization exposure and higher levels of identity concealment i…
Inconcealable
To Join or Not to Join
This retrospective study investigates 79 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) college students’ experiences attending high schools with gay-straight student alliances (GSAs). Responses to two, open-ended survey questions were analyzed thematically to identify reasons that underlie GSA non-membership and to model facets of GSAs that may impact the GSA-related experiences of LGBT youths. Three frames of reference for understanding GSA non…
Sexual minority stress and suicide risk
These findings suggest that an adaptive personality profile may confer resilience in the face of sexual minority-based victimization. This study adds to our knowledge of sexual minority mental health and highlights new directions for future research
For all the role asks of us, it gives us so much more”
School-based Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs have well-documented benefits for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and their allies. However, little is known about what constitutes usual practice in these clubs, nor is much known about the adult advisors who serve as important safe adult relationships for SGM youth in schools. As such, the present study conducted a survey with 167 GSA advisors to gain a better understanding of usual …
Mental health providers’ biases, knowledge, and treatment decision making with gender-minority clients
Gender performance stress and risk for psychopathology
The authors review research on the risk factors for, and prevalence of, psychological disorders as they relate to gender nonconformity in adolescence and adulthood. Findings from existing literature suggest gender nonconforming individuals are more likely to experience a variety of risk factors associated with psychopathology when compared with general and sexual minority populations. Associated with these risk factors, gender nonconforming indiv…
Challenges Faced by Homeless Sexual Minorities
Objectives. The goal of this study was to identify differences between gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) homeless youths and their heterosexual counterparts in terms of physical and mental health difficulties. Methods. A sample of 84 GLBT adolescents was matched in regard to age and self-reported gender with 84 heterosexual adolescents. The 2 samples were compared on a variety of psychosocial variables. Results. GLBT adolescents left…
Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking
In this article, a mental health help-seeking model is offered as a framework for understanding cultural and contextual factors that affect ethnic minority adolescents' pathways into mental health services. The effects of culture and context are profound across the entire help-seeking pathway, from problem identification to choice of treatment providers. The authors argue that an understanding of these help-seeking pathways provides insights into…
Substance Abuse Treatment Providers' Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Regarding Sexual Minorities
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals have been found to have elevated rates of substance use disorders when compared with heterosexuals. However, little is known about the challenges a sexual minority might face in presenting for substance use treatment. In this study, treatment providers' attitudes toward LGBT individuals were assessed among a sample of 46 substance abuse treatment counselors who provide publicly funded tre…
Use of the Quality of Life Inventory for Measuring Quality of Life Changes in an Inpatient Psychiatric Population
This study measured self-reported quality of life at two time points for 50 diagnostically heterogeneous patients in a state-funded psychiatric hospital and evaluated the Quality of Life Inventory for assessing changes over inpatient treatment. Participants completed the Quality of Life Inventory after admission and before discharge. Improvement occurred in overall scores during participants' hospital stays. Analysis of domains showed improvement…
Offsetting risks
Sexual Reorientation Therapy Interventions
While the topic of sexual reorientation therapy, that is, therapy intended to change one's sexual orientation from lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) to heterosexual, is not a new one, there is renewed interest in reorientation therapy. While most of the debate surrounding this controversial practice has focused on whether or not it should be banned, relatively few studies exist that detail what the process of reorientation therapy entails. The purp…
Interrupting Hate Through Literacy Performance
Blackburn's (2012) recent book invites readers to consider literacy as a tool for engaging lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQQ) youth and their allies in the service of fostering a positive school climate. Her use of concrete examples, learned experiences from facilitating diverse literary performances, and insightful assimilation of relevant literature all result in an informative, engaging, and inspiring text
To Join or Not to Join
This retrospective study investigates 79 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) college students’ experiences attending high schools with gay-straight student alliances (GSAs). Responses to two, open-ended survey questions were analyzed thematically to identify reasons that underlie GSA non-membership and to model facets of GSAs that may impact the GSA-related experiences of LGBT youths. Three frames of reference for understanding GSA non…
Offsetting risks
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth are at risk for engaging in negative health behaviors and for experiencing at-school victimization. Specific benefits of attending a high school with a gay-straight alliance (GSA), including lower levels of suicidality, have been published; however, it is unclear whether GSAs are related to lower levels of problematic substance use, depressive symptoms, and psychological distress. Using a sampl…
Mental Health Characteristics of Sexual Minority Veterans
This study examines the mental health characteristics of sexual minority (lesbian, gay, and bisexual, or LGB) veterans, compared these characteristics to those of an existing Veterans Affairs (VA) sample, and examined the relationship between mental health and anxiety around concealment of LGB identity while in the military. Data regarding LGB veterans' (n = 409) military experiences and current mental health were collected via an online survey; …
Bridging Theory and Practice in Working With Queer Youth
Julie Tilsen has recently published a text for working with queer youth that adopts a constructionist framework to understand how the therapeutic process helps elucidate identity through dialogue and narrative. Practitioners and researchers alike can benefit from the unique perspectives of Tilsen and the Q-Squad, five queer-identified youth whose voices help translate queer theory into more concrete examples and ideas
Experiences of Ex-Ex-Gay Individuals in Sexual Reorientation Therapy
Therapy meant to change someone's sexual orientation, or reorientation therapy, is still in practice despite statements from the major mental health organizations of its potential for harm. This qualitative study used an inductive content analysis strategy (Patton, 2002) to examine the experiences of thirty-eight individuals (31 males and seven females) who have been through a total of 113 episodes of reorientation therapy and currently identify …
Sexual minority stress and suicide risk
These findings suggest that an adaptive personality profile may confer resilience in the face of sexual minority-based victimization. This study adds to our knowledge of sexual minority mental health and highlights new directions for future research
A Comparison of Sexual Minority Youth Who Attend Religiously Affiliated Schools and Their Nonreligious-School-Attending Counterparts
Sexual minority youth are an at-risk group for negative health outcomes. The present study compares descriptive characteristics and outness of sexual minority youth who attend religious schools to sexual minorities who do not attend religious schools, and also investigates if attending religiously affiliated schools is associated with levels of alcohol use and school belonging among sexual minority youth. Results indicated that sexual minority yo…
Effects of state nondiscrimination laws on transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals' perceived community stigma and mental health
In this study, we investigated the potential effects of statewide nondiscrimination laws on community stigma, as well as its relationship with psychosocial stressors and mental health outcomes. Gender minority individuals (N = 120) completed an online survey containing psychosocial and mental health outcome measures. The experiences of participants who resided in states with and without nondiscrimination laws were compared in regard to perceived …
Gender performance stress and risk for psychopathology
The authors review research on the risk factors for, and prevalence of, psychological disorders as they relate to gender nonconformity in adolescence and adulthood. Findings from existing literature suggest gender nonconforming individuals are more likely to experience a variety of risk factors associated with psychopathology when compared with general and sexual minority populations. Associated with these risk factors, gender nonconforming indiv…
Metaphorical and literal trans* journeys are chronicled in Transgender Experience
The 2013 book Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility, edited by Chantal Zabus and David Coad, contributes a multinational perspective to the extant trans* scholarly literature. The editors have assembled a collection of personal narratives, scholarly essays, and a photographic narrative that introduce the reader to aspects of the trans* experience that are likely to be novel and enlightening
Real-time associations between discrimination and anxious and depressed mood among sexual and gender minorities
While identity concealment may reduce exposure to discrimination and victimization, we found that concealment and prior victimization predict heightened reactivity to daily discrimination experiences. Additional research is needed to further explicate real-time effects of minority stress exposure, and to develop interventions that may mitigate risk among SGM individuals with prior victimization exposure and higher levels of identity concealment i…
Mental health providers’ biases, knowledge, and treatment decision making with gender-minority clients
Inconcealable
The Availability of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Specific Substance Use Services
Background: In 2007, Cochran, Peavy, and Robohm conducted a study of treatment programs that indicated that they provided specialized services for gay and lesbian clients; however, phone calls to these agencies revealed that over 90% of these agencies actually did not provide services that were discernibly different from the agencies’ general services. Objectives: Given the progress and development since 2007 regarding awareness of SGM (sexual an…
Gender and sexuality alliance advisors' perceptions of self‐efficacy and social emotional competency
The presence of a Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) reduces risk for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth across a variety of domains, but little is known about the adult advisor‐level variables contributing to these observed benefits. This study explored relationships between advisors' tenure, receipt of professional development, self‐efficacy, and social emotional competencies (SECs). Participants ( N = 167) completed an online survey measu…
For all the role asks of us, it gives us so much more”
School-based Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs have well-documented benefits for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and their allies. However, little is known about what constitutes usual practice in these clubs, nor is much known about the adult advisors who serve as important safe adult relationships for SGM youth in schools. As such, the present study conducted a survey with 167 GSA advisors to gain a better understanding of usual …
Psychology (20 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (19 obras) · Social Psychology (14 obras) · Clinical Psychology (13 obras) · Sexual orientation (12 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Clinical Psychology (11 obras) · Lesbian (11 obras) · Transgender (10 obras) · Homosexuality (9 obras)