Victimization and Resilience: Experiences of Rural LGBTQ+ Youth Across Multiple Contexts.

LGBTQ+ youth experience higher rates of interpersonal violence, such as peer-based bullying and identity-based harassment, than their counterparts. Experiences of victimization can occur across different social contexts including family, school, peers, and community. LGBTQ+ youth in rural communities may be at increased risk for identity-based victimization due in part to geographic isolation and an often conservative value system that may create a hostile environment to LGBTQ+ individuals.

Adverse childhood experience patterns, major depressive disorder, and substance use disorder in older adults.

Objectives: This article investigates distinct patterns of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in a representative sample of US older adults, and how the ACEs patterns relate to major depression and substance use disorder (SUD).

Methods: Data came from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions III. The study sample consisted of older adults aged 55 or older ( = 11,386).

Pregnant adolescent women's perceptions of depression and psychiatric services in the United States.

Problem: Adolescent mothers and their children are at high-risk for depression and the associated negative educational, social, health, and economic outcomes.

Background: However, few pregnant adolescent women with depression receive psychiatric services, especially low-income or racial/ethnic minority adolescent women.

Aim: This qualitative study explores perceptions of depression, psychiatric services, and barriers to accessing services in a sample of low-income, pregnant racial/ethnic minority adolescent women.