Empowering transgender youths: Promoting resilience through a group training program
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Cristiano Scandurra; Simona Picariello; Anna Lisa Amodeo; Paolo Valerio
- Source
- Subject
- Health (social science)
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Identity (social science)
050109 social psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Intervention (counseling)
Transgender
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Resilience (network)
Empowerment
resilience
media_common
030505 public health
05 social sciences
Repeated measures design
group-training program
Focus group
transgender
Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental Health
0305 other medical science
Training program
Psychology
Clinical psychology
- Language
- English
This study presents a training program developed with eight transgender youths who experienced transphobic episodes. Two focus groups were conducted and the 14-Item Resilience Scale was administered to evaluate training effectiveness in improving resilience. The intervention followed an empowerment, peer-group-based methodology. Three themes were identified: identity affirmation, self-acceptance, and group as support. A three-waves repeated measures ANOVA confirmed an increase in resilience levels. Suggestions for clinical practice and social policies are discussed.