Narcisse asks how H&H supports parents and caregivers as protective factors
Narcisse asks how H&H involves and supports parents and caregivers, given family acceptance's protective role. Fattal says child and adolescent behavioral services include families and caregivers, H&H works in 50 schools, and the same approach applies to LGBTQ patients.
And we have been joined by my colleagues, Wilson, in the house.
How does H&H involve and support parents and caregivers, giving the role of family acceptance as a protective factor?
Yeah, for all our child and adolescent behavioral services, including the family, the legal guardian, the other caregivers involved in the care of the patient, is core to what we do in treating all our patients.
And this is definitely true in the case of LGBTQ patients and in the case of providing gender-affirming care.
While we're at it, do we create a support system for the family specifically?
Because we know.
in some culture is more difficult for acceptance.
And that's the reason when I started, I talk about acceptance and accessible and where we are in life.
Yeah, definitely.
We have this in mental health in general because there's a lot of stigma and there's a lot of resistance sometimes from families, communities.
So we're used to doing that.
We're very used to including other caregivers, including the communities.
We do a lot of work, for example, in schools.
We're present in 50 schools in New York where we provide mental health services.
So we have this as part of the way we provide services for children and adolescents, and we apply the same when dealing with gender-affirming care or when working with LGBTQ patients.