Graybill, Emily C., and Sherrie L. Proctor. "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Youth: Limited Representation In School Support Personnel Journals." Journal Of School Psychology 54.(2016): 9-16. ScienceDirect. Web. 14 Oct. 2016.
Source Question: Why should higher education institutions provide resources for their LGBT students?
This article details the journals of school support professionals and the coverage of LGBT students in these journals. The authors hypothesized that LGBT coverage in school professional journals would be insufficient. They used eight journals from the areas of school nursing, school counseling, school psychology, and school social work between the years of 2000 and 2014 to discover how many journal entries were spent talking about LGBT students and resources. They found that only .3 to 3 percent of all journal entries discussed LGBT students and how to help them thrive in their environment. This relates to the topic question because students who are part of the LGBT community often cannot find significant support and thus are more likely to be diagnosed with depression and suicidal thoughts or actions, and their risk of dropping out and not pursuing higher education are much higher than that of heterosexual peers. Students who have a staff member or an organization who supports them feel safer than students who report not having a support system.
I personally did not struggle with bullying related to being LGBT, so I never thought of how much one organization or even just one person could influence the self esteem and mental wellbeing of LGBT youth. This source changed my thinking by making this point more clear to me. I agree with this source. This article details the importance of specific training in the field of LGBT support and recognition in schools of all education levels.
This source tends to agree with source 1 as they both consider the problems LGBT students face. However, the first article concentrates more on the struggles faced while entering higher education, while this article concentrates on the training of educators in all levels of education. Both sources would agree on the importance of resources for LGBT students.
This article led me to ask why LGBT students do not receive proper care and recognition. My next source will cover LGBT people in medicine and why the medical circumstances for people in the LGBT community are different from the circumstances of their heterosexual counterparts. So far, I've answered begun to find an answer to my "why" question but I am still in need of a countering source.
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