Security amidst stigma: Exploring HIV and sexual minority stressors through an attachment-based psychotherapy group.

Security amidst stigma: Exploring HIV and sexual minority stressors through an attachment-based psychotherapy group.

Mastropaolo, Christina;Carrasco, Belinda;Breslow, Aaron S;Gagnon, Gregory J;
psychotherapy (chicago, ill) 2019
293
mastropaolo2019securitypsychotherapy

Abstract

Despite strides in HIV prevention and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender care, comprehensive care centers are of critical importance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities and people with HIV/AIDS who continue to contend with intersecting stigmas and chronic minority stressors. Building on the integrated attachment and sexual minority stress model, we discuss these themes by highlighting a group vignette from an urban psychiatric clinic that has provided affirmative psychotherapy to marginalized communities affected by HIV/AIDS for over 2 decades. The authors have rotated at the clinic as cofacilitators of a weekly, process-oriented group for sexual minority men who are HIV positive or are affected by HIV. In this article, we provide a theoretical foundation for HIV-affirming group psychotherapy and clinical integration of minority stress and attachment-based interventions. Group psychotherapy provides a rare opportunity to bond an often-isolated community by evoking factors of universality, cohesiveness, and catharsis. It simultaneously enables us to confront individual existential concerns with serostatus disclosure, grief, and feelings of victimization, as well as challenge internalized stigma and rejection sensitivity. We apply these issues to a verbatim clinical exchange, analyzing attachment-related themes and issues pertaining to minority stress and stigma, as well as discuss group mechanisms for attachment interventions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Citation

ID: 75160
Ref Key: mastropaolo2019securitypsychotherapy
Use this key to autocite in SciMatic or Thesis Manager

References

Blockchain Verification

Account:
NFT Contract Address:
0x95644003c57E6F55A65596E3D9Eac6813e3566dA
Article ID:
75160
Unique Identifier:
10.1037/pst0000264
Network:
Scimatic Chain (ID: 481)
Loading...
Blockchain Readiness Checklist
Authors
Abstract
Journal Name
Year
Title
5/5
Creates 1,000,000 NFT tokens for this article
Token Features:
  • ERC-1155 Standard NFT
  • 1 Million Supply per Article
  • Transferable via MetaMask
  • Permanent Blockchain Record
Blockchain QR Code
Scan with Saymatik Web3.0 Wallet

Saymatik Web3.0 Wallet