On March 31, 2016, I had attended the Not Deviant: LGBT Experiences in Mental Health Care discussion panel. The panel was informative about the LGBTQ community and their dealings with the health care system and professionals and just people in general. A health care providers becomes knowledgeable once they receive and educated themselves about the LGBTQ community and the issues they face. From this point, the health care providers can become more compassionate with their patients. Negative stigmas toward the LGBTQ community does affect them socially and how others perceive them. Also, how they interact within society. An example from the discussion panel is about how the hospital interacts with the larger society, especially in the LGBTQ community. Conflict brings distrust. If someone does not treat a person as an individual then that person does not feel safe and they feel marginalized.
Also how the hospitals are not set up for the micro-culture like the LGBTQ community.
Healthcare systems cannot change what was done in the past to the LGBTQ community, but as a society, we can now control how we treat people no …show more content…
Education is also another key, in understanding different groups, like the LGBTQ community in society. For an example, from the panel, the pronouns that a healthcare professional or someone may use will indicate to the LGBTQ individual if the setting that they are in is a safe haven for them or not. Just being mindful or consciences of the words that we speak are important. An example of this was when a male student gave an example of how he did not feel at ease in a terrible situation. He got rushed to the hospital by an ambulance. He had tried to commit suicide because of the bullying he had received from others for being gay. While he was in the ambulance the worker told him how he still had time to repent to save his soul from going to
Also how the hospitals are not set up for the micro-culture like the LGBTQ community.
Healthcare systems cannot change what was done in the past to the LGBTQ community, but as a society, we can now control how we treat people no …show more content…
Education is also another key, in understanding different groups, like the LGBTQ community in society. For an example, from the panel, the pronouns that a healthcare professional or someone may use will indicate to the LGBTQ individual if the setting that they are in is a safe haven for them or not. Just being mindful or consciences of the words that we speak are important. An example of this was when a male student gave an example of how he did not feel at ease in a terrible situation. He got rushed to the hospital by an ambulance. He had tried to commit suicide because of the bullying he had received from others for being gay. While he was in the ambulance the worker told him how he still had time to repent to save his soul from going to