1st Edition
Transgender Emergence Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families
500 Pages
by
Routledge
500 Pages
by
Routledge
500 Pages
by
Routledge
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Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clients This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families views assessment and treatment through a... Read more
- Foreword
- Preface: Overview of Transgender Emergence
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Language of Gender
- Gender Dysphoria and Etiological Theories
- The Families of Transgendered People
- The Need for Training
- Part I: Theoretical Understandings of Transgenderism
- Chapter 1. The Transsexual Phenomenon Meets the Transexual Menace
- Compassionate and Controversial Treatment of Transsexuals
- The Mental Health Professional As Gatekeeper
- Clinical Guidelines—Therapeutic Standards of Care
- Chapter 2. The Legacy: Gender Variance in History
- The Historical Legacy
- Medical Science and Gender Variance
- Chapter 3. Deconstructing Sex and Gender: Thinking Outside the Box
- Four Components of Identity
- Deconstructing the Assumptions of Sexual Identity
- Part II: Diagnosis and Assessment
- Chapter 4. Etiologies: Causes and Categories
- Etiological Theories: Nature and Nurture—Essentially Constructed
- Categorical Classifications: If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit—Force It
- Chapter 5. Diagnosis and Transgenderism: The Creation of Pathology
- The Power of Diagnosis
- Gender As Pathological Diagnosis
- Part III: Treatment Issues
- Chapter 6. Learning to Listen to Gender Narratives
- Mental Health Issues and Transgenderism
- Clients Seeking Therapy
- Transgender Narratives
- Therapist As Midwife: The Birth of Story
- Chapter 7. Transgender Emergence: A Developmental Process
- Coming Out
- Transgender Emergence
- Chapter 8. Family Emergence
- Partners, Spouses, and Significant Others
- Developmental Stages for Family Members
- Families Coping with Transgenderism
- TransParents See
- Chapter 9. Transgendered Children and Youth
- Treatment, Prevention, and Parental Rights
- Families with Gender-Variant Children
- Gender Variance and Progressive Treatments
- Transgender Emergence—Step-by-Step Maturation
- Chapter 10. The Treatment of Intersexed People: Time for a New Paradigm
- Assigning Sex and the Modern Medical Protocols
- Creating Psychosocial Emergency
- Standards of Humane Treatment for Intersexed People
- Appendix A. The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Definition of Transsexualism
- Appendix B. Common Intersexed Conditions
- Appendix C. Letters of Recommendation for Hormones
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Biography
Arlene Istar Lev, Arlene Istar Lev
