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Add Brown School News on Google (opens in a new tab)A book co-edited by Paz Galupo was selected as the 2026 recipient of the Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division 44. This award recognizes Galupo’s book “Addressing Minority Stress and Enhancing Resilience with Diverse LGBTQ+ Clients,” as having a significant contribution to the field of LGBT psychology.
Galupo is the Audre Lorde Distinguished Professor of Sexual Health & Education and director of the Sexuality, Health and Gender (SHAG) Center at the WashU Brown School. Their book was co-edited with Nicholas A. Livingston, staff psychologist at VA Boston Healthcare System’s Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program and Brian A. Feinstein, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago.
The volume combines research and clinical expertise from LGBTQ+ health specialists and clinicians involved in developing, adapting, and implementing affirming mental health treatments. Livingston notes, “With rich case formulations, clinical dialogue, and successful treatment examples, we provide a highly practical how-to guide for everyone – from clinicians-in-training to seasoned professionals.”
Importantly, the case studies highlight how clinicians can help their LGBTQ+ clients face the challenges of the current sociopolitical moment. Galupo points out that “at time of increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, the case examples address how therapists can take a systems-level approach to understanding how systemic oppression impacts mental health.”
Chapters were designed to provide a balanced treatment acknowledging both health disparities and community strengths. According to Feinstein, “So much scholarship on LGBTQ+ people focuses on what’s going wrong – discrimination, rejection, etc. We wanted to make sure we also focus on what’s going right – all the strengths and resilience that LGBTQ+ people have – and how clinicians can harness this to promote wellbeing. The balance of helping LGBTQ+ people to cope with stress while also enhancing resilience is one of the things that sets our book apart.”
Galupo and colleagues received the award at the American Psychological Association’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. this August.