Today’s LGBTQ youth come of age at a time of dynamic social and political change with regard to LGBTQ rights and visibility, yet remain vulnerable to compromised mental health. Despite advances in individual-level treatment strategies, school-based programs, and state-level policies that address LGBTQ mental health, there remains a critical gap in large-scale evidence-based prevention and intervention programs designed to support the positive development and mental health of LGBTQ youth. To spur advances in research and translation, I pose six considerations for future scholarship and practice. I begin by framing LGBTQ (mental) health disparities in a life course perspective and discuss how research focused on the timing of events could offer insight into the optimum targets and timing of prevention and intervention strategies. Next, I argue the importance of expanding notions of “mental health” to include perspectives of wellbeing, positive youth development, and resilience. I then consider how research might attend to the complexity of LGBTQ youths’ lived experience within and across the various contexts they traverse in their day-to-day lives. Similarly, I discuss the importance of exploring heterogeneity in LGBTQ youth experiences and mental health. I also offer suggestions for how community partnerships may be a key resource for developing and evaluating evidence-informed programs and tools designed to foster the positive development and mental health of LGBTQ youth. Finally, I acknowledge the potentials of team science for advancing research and practice for LGBTQ youth health and wellbeing. Throughout, these future directions center the urgent needs of LGBTQ youth.

如今，LGBTQ 青少年的成长正值 LGBTQ 权利和知名度方面发生动态的社会和政治变革之际，但他们的心理健康仍然容易受到损害。尽管在解决 LGBTQ 心理健康问题的个人层面治疗策略、学校项目和州层面政策方面取得了进展，但旨在支持积极发展和心理健康的大规模循证预防和干预计划仍然存在严重差距LGBTQ 青年。为了促进研究和翻译的进步，我对未来的学术和实践提出了六点考虑。我首先从生命历程的角度阐述 LGBTQ（心理）健康差异，并讨论关注事件发生时间的研究如何能够深入了解预防和干预策略的最佳目标和时间安排。接下来，我认为扩大“心理健康”概念的重要性，将福祉、积极的青年发展和复原力纳入其中。然后，我会考虑研究如何关注 LGBTQ 青少年在日常生活中经历的各种环境中和跨环境的复杂性生活经历。同样，我讨论了探索 LGBTQ 青少年经历和心理健康异质性的重要性。我还就社区伙伴关系如何成为开发和评估旨在促进 LGBTQ 青少年积极发展和心理健康的循证计划和工具的关键资源提出建议。最后，我承认团队科学在推进 LGBTQ 青少年健康和福祉的研究和实践方面的潜力。自始至终，这些未来方向都集中在 LGBTQ 青年的迫切需求上。