Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health is a quarterly journal on the mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, founded in 1989 as the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, published by Taylor & Francis under this title from 2008 to 2025 and now issued as The Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health. It carries clinical, empirical and policy work, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, JCR Psychiatry Q3 (187/293) within the Emerging Sources Citation Index.《男女同性恋心理健康杂志》是一份关注女同、男同、双性恋、跨性别与酷儿群体精神卫生的季刊，1989 年以《Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy》之名创刊，2008 至 2025 年由 Taylor & Francis 以现名出版，现以《The Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health》之名延续。该刊刊登临床、实证与政策类稿件，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，在 JCR 精神病学类目（ESCI）列 Q3，排名 187/293。

Scope

• Sexuality and gender are treated as ordinary clinical variables here, so a paper may open on a single case and close on questions of staffing, training or law without passing through a diagnostic argument first.该刊把性取向与性别当作常规临床变量，论文可以从一个个案写起，最后落在人员配置、培训或法律层面的问题，中间不必先走一遍诊断学论证。

• Minority stress remains the organising idea, and studies trace how stigma, concealment and expected rejection turn into depression, anxiety and heavy drinking across decades of exposure.少数群体压力仍是核心框架，研究追踪污名、隐匿与预期拒绝如何经年累月转化为抑郁、焦虑与过量饮酒。

• Coming out is examined as a process rather than an event, with work on disclosure to family, to employers and to clinicians, and on what follows when a disclosure is met badly.出柜被当作过程来看，研究涉及向家人、雇主与临床医生披露，也涉及披露遭到冷遇之后发生的事。

• Assessment and care for transgender and gender diverse adults form a substantial strand, including the psychological evaluation that precedes hormone treatment and the letters clinicians are asked to write for it.跨性别与性别多样成年人的评估与照护构成重要一支，包括激素治疗之前的心理评估，以及临床医生为此被要求出具的转介函。

• Young people enter through schools, bullying, family rejection and the first contact with child mental health services, where a single response can settle whether the family comes back at all.青少年经由学校、霸凌、家庭排斥与儿童精神卫生服务的首次接触进入视野，医生在那一次的回应往往决定这个家庭还会不会再来。

• HIV and AIDS remain in scope long after effective treatment arrived, chiefly as a source of bereavement, survivor guilt and the mental health of people who are ageing with the virus.艾滋病毒与艾滋病在有效治疗问世多年之后仍在范围之内，主要作为丧亲、幸存者内疚以及带毒者步入老年后的精神卫生议题出现。

• Substance use is handled beside mood and anxiety rather than in a separate specialty, since drinking and drug use often carry the same social meaning that the presenting problem does.物质使用与情绪、焦虑问题一并处理，饮酒与用药常常与主诉问题共享同一层社会含义。

• Suicide and self-harm research appears regularly, and papers weigh risk against the protection that community, chosen family and a clinician who does not pathologise the patient can supply.自杀与自伤研究定期出现，论文把风险与社群、自选家庭以及一位不将患者病理化的医生所能提供的保护放在一起衡量。

• Older lesbian, gay and bisexual adults, and their entry into residential care, raise questions about disclosure to staff, visitation rights and the isolation that follows a partner's death.年长的女同、男同与双性恋者进入养老机构时，会碰到向员工披露身份、探视权以及伴侣去世之后的孤独等问题。

• Couple and family work sits inside the clinical remit, with papers on parenting, adoption, donor conception and the division of roles in relationships that the law recognised only recently.伴侣与家庭治疗属于临床范围，论文涉及养育、领养、供精受孕，以及法律近来才承认的关系当中的角色分工。

• Religion and spirituality come up where they collide with sexuality, and the harm done by conversion practices is examined together with the bans that several jurisdictions have enacted.宗教与灵性在和性取向冲突之处进入讨论，转化治疗的伤害与若干司法辖区已经施行的禁令一并考察。

• Cultural competence is treated as a trainable skill, and papers describe curricula, supervision and the gaps left when a clinic serves a population it has never thought to ask about.文化胜任力被当作可以训练的技能，论文描述课程、督导，以及诊所服务从未想过去询问的人群时留下的缺口。

• Policy and law belong here as well, and the mental health consequences of marriage equality, service rules and insurance design are handled as research questions with measurable outcomes.政策与法律同样在范围之内，婚姻平权、服役规定与医保设计带来的精神卫生后果被当作可测量的研究问题处理。

• Method matters as much as topic, and papers discuss community-based recruitment, small samples and the difficulty of comparing sexual minority groups across countries with different legal climates.方法与选题同等要紧，论文讨论社区招募、小样本，以及法律环境不同的国家之间如何比较性少数群体。

History

• The title began in 1989 as the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, issued from New York by Haworth Medical Press at a moment when the AIDS epidemic had made the mental health of gay men a clinical emergency.该刊 1989 年以《Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy》之名创刊，由纽约的 Haworth Medical Press 出版，其时艾滋病流行已使男同性恋者的精神卫生成为临床急务。

• Haworth built its list from narrow professional journals, and a title addressed to therapists working with lesbian and gay patients fitted that model, since general psychiatric journals carried little of the material.Haworth 的刊号多来自细分专业期刊，一本面向服务同性恋患者的治疗师的刊物正合这一路数，综合精神科刊物当时很少刊登这类内容。

• The earlier journal carried the ISSNs 0891-7140 in print and 1540-7128 online, its first volume appeared in 1989, and volume 11 closed the run under that name.旧刊的印刷版刊号为 0891-7140，电子版为 1540-7128，第 1 卷出自 1989 年，第 11 卷是旧名之下的最后一卷。

• Early volumes did not always reach four issues, and the Crossref record for the old ISSNs has years in the 1990s with nothing registered at all, 1992 among them.早期卷次并非每年满四期，旧刊号在 Crossref 的记录里，1990 年代有整年没有任何篇目登记，1992 年即其中之一。

• In 2008 the title changed and a new pair of ISSNs was registered, 1935-9705 for print and 1935-9713 for the online edition, while the volume count ran on without a break.2008 年刊物改用现名并登记新刊号，印刷版为 1935-9705，网络版为 1935-9713，卷号则一路承续未断。

• Volume 12 therefore opened in 2008 and volume 29 carries the issues of 2025, so any volume can be dated by counting back one year at a time from the present title.第 12 卷因此始于 2008 年，第 29 卷对应 2025 年的各期，任一卷的年份都可以从当下按每年一卷向前推算。

• The run under this name ended with volume 29, and from volume 30 the journal appears as The Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health under new ISSNs, 3067-8935 for print and 3067-8943 for the online edition, with the volume count carried over.现名之下的出刊止于第 29 卷，自第 30 卷起刊物改用《The Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health》，并登记新刊号 3067-8935 与 3067-8943，卷号继续承续。

• The new name widened the remit from psychotherapy to mental health at large, admitting psychiatry, nursing, public health and policy work that the old title would have excluded on its face.新名把范围从心理治疗扩到广义的精神卫生，精神科、护理、公共卫生与政策研究得以进入，旧题名在字面上会把它们挡在外面。

• Publication moved with the title, from Haworth in New York to Taylor & Francis, whose imprint for the journal is recorded in Philadelphia, and the issues now appear on the publisher's online platform.出版方随更名一同更换，由纽约的 Haworth 转为 Taylor & Francis，该刊的出版地记为费城，各期如今在出版方的网络平台上发行。

• Four issues a year have been the pattern since the 2008 rename, and the 2025 volume closed at number four, which agrees with the quarterly frequency recorded by the National Library of Medicine.更名之后每年四期成为定例，2025 年一卷收于第 4 期，与美国国家医学图书馆登记的季刊频率一致。

• Indexing took the usual route for a specialist title, with entry into the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the Science Citation Index Expanded, and PubMed listing a selection of its articles only.收录路径与多数细分刊物相同，该刊进入新兴来源引文索引而未进科学引文索引扩展版，PubMed 只列出其中部分篇目。

• The Journal Impact Factor stood at 1.9 for 2023, rose to 2.3 for 2024 and fell back to 1.9 for 2025, against a five-year figure of 2.9 in the latest year.期刊影响因子 2023 年为 1.9，2024 年升至 2.3，2025 年回落到 1.9，最新一年的五年影响因子为 2.9。

• Output is small even by the standards of a specialty journal, at about eleven articles on the 2025 count, and the citation total near 1,080 carries a cited half-life of 7.6 years.即便按细分刊物的标准，发文量也算少，2025 年统计约 11 篇，总被引接近 1080 次，被引半衰期为 7.6 年。

• Open access has stayed marginal, with gold open access at about four per cent of output, so most papers remain inside the subscription that libraries buy from the publisher.开放获取占比一直很小，金色开放获取约占发文量的百分之四，多数论文仍留在图书馆向出版方订购的订阅范围之内。

• The Crossref record holds close to a thousand DOIs under the current title, and the great majority are backfile items registered retrospectively for volumes published before 2008.现名之下 Crossref 记录近千条 DOI，其中绝大部分是 2008 年以前各卷回溯登记的存档篇目。

Editors

• Editorial responsibility rests with an editor-in-chief, who works with an editorial board whose names and affiliations the publisher lists on the journal's own pages and revises as appointments change.编辑事务由主编主持，编委会与之配合，成员名单与所属机构由出版方公布在刊物页面上，并随聘期更替而更新。

• The Association of Gay & Lesbian Psychiatrists is named on the cover as the professional body the journal serves, and the National Library of Medicine carries that sponsorship in its catalogue note.封面上标明刊物服务于男女同性恋精神科医师协会，美国国家医学图书馆的编目说明也记下这一主办关系。

• That board is drawn from clinical practice and academic research, and the roster on the publisher's site is the one to consult, since printed issues lag behind the appointments.编委会由临床执业者与学术研究人员组成，出版方网站上的名册才是可以查对的现届名单，纸本各期的名单往往滞后。

• Submissions arrive through the publisher's online system, and the instructions for authors set out the article types, the reference style and the declarations each paper must carry.稿件经出版方的在线系统提交，投稿须知列明文章类型、参考文献格式，以及每篇论文必须附上的声明。

• Papers are first appraised by the editor, and those found suitable go to independent referees, whose reports return to the editor before a decision is drafted and sent to the author.稿件先由编辑初筛，合适的再送独立评审人，评审意见回到编辑手中，之后才拟出决定并告知作者。

• Referees are asked to weigh method and clinical usefulness together, since a paper that cannot be used in a consulting room is of limited value to a readership made up largely of practitioners.审稿意见要同时衡量方法与临床可用性，对以执业者为主的读者群来说，一篇无法在诊室里运用的论文价值有限。

• Given the remit, reviewers commonly press authors on sampling, on how participants were recruited and on whether a study can speak for anyone beyond the group it surveyed.由于刊物范围所限，评审人常追问抽样方式、参与者如何招募，以及一项研究能否代表受调查群体之外的人。

• Case material and practice accounts go through review with the same care as empirical papers, though the criteria differ, and authors are expected to say what was learned rather than what was done.病例材料与实践记述同样经过评审，尺度却与实证论文不同，作者须说明从中得到什么，只叙述做过什么并不够。

• Themed issues are organised from time to time with guest editors, usually gathered around one direction that the field has left unattended, and the call is issued through the publisher's site.刊物不时与客座编辑合办专题，选题通常集中在一个领域内长期少人处理的方向，征稿启事经出版方网站发布。

• Ethics follow the publisher's code and the Committee on Publication Ethics, and corrections, expressions of concern and retractions are handled through the publisher's procedures rather than by the editor alone.伦理事务依出版方规范与出版伦理委员会的要求处理，更正、关注声明与撤稿走出版方的程序，不由主编一人决定。

• Decisions on individual papers are made by the journal, and the publisher states that editorial independence is guaranteed, which counts for much in a field where a finding can turn political overnight.单篇论文的取舍由刊物作出，出版方声明保障编辑独立，这对一个研究发现可能一夜之间变成政治争论的领域尤为重要。

• Authors keep copyright under the publisher's standard agreement or may pay for open access, and that choice is settled at acceptance rather than at the point of submission.作者按出版方的标准协议保留版权，也可以付费开放获取，这一选择在录用时确定，不在投稿环节。