Working with LGBTQ+ People

This presentation introduces research on religion/spirituality among LGBTQ+ people to better help clinicians work with this population. It starts by reviewing theories about structural and minority stress that LGBTQ+ people experience to help attendees understand the socially disadvantaged position held by LGBTQ+ people. It then moves to review key models of how and why religiousness may promote health. In doing so, it highlights initially health-promoting pathways available to all people and then highlights how those pathways may be more complicated for LGBTQ+ people. Next, it examines how LG...Read moreBTQ+ people have forged positive relationships with religion/spirituality, looking at what adaptations LGBTQ+ people have made to do so. Finally, it wraps up with a discussion of clinical cases of LGBTQ+ people with a variety of experiences with religion/spirituality. Less...

Learning Objectives

Identify structural, interpersonal, and intrapersonal barriers that prevent LGBTQ+ people from accessing the health-promoting benefits of religion/spirituality.
Describe the four key dimensions of religiousness: believing, bonding, behaving, and belonging.
Articulate ways in which LGBTQ+ people may adapt their individual, interpersonal, or structural systems to allow them to engage healthily with religion/spirituality.

Friday, January 23, 2026

Live Interactive Webinar

01:00 PM EST - 03:00 PM EST

EARN 0 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Tyler Lefevor, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology at Utah State University

Tyler Lefevor is an associate professor of psychology at Utah State University. His research focuses on understanding how LGBTQ+ people raised religious can navigate their religious and gender/sexual identities. As a queer man raised as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he strives to help build bridges between religious and queer communities. Tyler also operates a private therapy practice in Utah and virtually through PsyPact.

Agenda

1:00 – intro and housekeeping
1:10 – Structural, interpersonal, and individual stress
among LGBTQ+ people
1:35 – Models of how religiousness promotes health
2:00 – Examining how LGBTQ+ people successfully
engage/disengage with religion/spirituality
2:25 – Case studies
2:55 – CE process (Solihten)

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