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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer\/questioning (LGBTQ+) young people have disproportionately high rates of poor mental health compared with their cisgender, heterosexual peers, but there is a dearth of research examining how best to integrate mental healthcare for LGBTQ+ youth.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To identify differences in the discursive construction of LGBTQ+ identity, youth, and mental health between LGBTQ+-specific youth mental health services and mainstream services and how these differences may facilitate or limit the integration of mental healthcare.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted a qualitative secondary analysis using Foucauldian discourse analysis, a method that centralises power and knowledge, to examine the discourses used to construct LGBTQ+ identity, youth, and mental health across four different mental health services. Using epistemic injustice as a theoretical framework, we analysed interviews with LGBTQ+ young people and staff (n = 30).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Mainstream discourses of LGBTQ+ youth mental health concentrate on risks, trauma, and harm, and reinforce a passive, pathologised, and patronised subject position for LGBTQ+ youth. In contrast, we identified three counter-discourses in LGBTQ+-specific mental health services: Knowing and telling, Resisting pathology, and Capability. These counter-discourses allowed for wider, transformative possibilities for LGBTQ+ youth subjectivities and mental wellbeing.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Existing models of integrated youth mental healthcare privilege a clinical, developmental, and universal approach that does not consider justice or the oppressive power systems implicated in LGBTQ+ young people\u2019s mental healthcare. Without addressing in\/justice, there will remain fundamental irreconcilable differences that will forfeit effective and inclusive systems of mental healthcare for LGBTQ+ young people.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyt.2026.1868755","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,22]],"date-time":"2026-09-22T13:57:35Z","timestamp":1790085455000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Irreconcilable differences?: epistemic injustice and the integration of mental healthcare for LGBTQ+ young people"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Rachael","family":"Eastham","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Health Research, Lancaster University","place":["Lancaster, United Kingdom"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"McDermott","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Social Policy and Society, University of Birmingham","place":["Birmingham, United Kingdom"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","volume-title":"Mental Health of Adolescents","year":"2026"},{"key":"B2","article-title":"Mental health of children and young people in Englan","volume-title":"N. 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