1st Edition
Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities Voices for Equity, Inclusion, and Resilience
This book examines issues across the lifespan of transgender and nonbinary individuals whilst synthesizing conceptual work, empirical evidence, pedagogical content, educational experiences, and the voices of transgender and nonbinary individuals. It highlights the resilience and resistance of transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities to challenge narratives relying on one-dimensional perspectives of risk and tragic lives.
While there is currently unprecedented visibility and increasing support, members of these communities still face shockingly high rates of violence, victimization, unemployment, discrimination, and family rejection. Significant need for services and support coupled with social, clinical, and medical service systems ill-equipped to provide culturally responsive care illustrates the critical need for quality education and training of educators, practitioners, and service providers in best practices of working with members of the transgender and nonbinary community.
Organized into six sections:
- Health
- Areas of Practice
- Coming Out and Family
- Relationships and Sexuality
- Communities
- Multiply Marginalized Identities and Populations,
this book offers a current, comprehensive, and intersectional guide for students, practitioners, and researchers across a variety of professions, including social work, psychology, public policy, and health care.
Introduction Part 1: Introduction to Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities
Shanna K. Kattari, M. Killian Kinney, Leonardo Kattari, and N. Eugene Walls
Introduction Part 2: Place, Joy and Self in Trans and Nonbinary Justice
Yoseñio V. Lewis and alex kime
Section 1: Health
Chapter 1: Transgender and Nonbinary Youth and Access to Medical Care
M. Killian Kinney, Eric T. Meininger, and Sara E. Weiner
Chapter 2: Transgender and Nonbinary Adults and Access to Medical Care
Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Shanna K. Kattari, and Leonardo Kattari
Chapter 3: Best Practices in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Transgender and Nonbinary People
Lee Roosevelt and Simon Adriane Ellis
Chapter 4: Affirming and Inclusive Mental Health Care for Transgender and Nonbinary Young People
Mere Abrams, Rachel Lynn Golden, and Jessie Rose Cohen
Chapter 5: Culturally Responsive Mental Health Care for Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals
N. Eugene Walls, Stephen von Merz, and Brittanie Atteberry-Ash
Section 2: Areas of Practice
Chapter 6: Substance Use and Transgender Nonbinary Populations: Towards Inclusive Prevention and Service Provision
Gio Dolcecore, Isaac M. Akapnitis, G. Trey Jenkins, and Cary L. Klemmer
Chapter 7: Understanding and Working with Transgender/Nonbinary Older Adults
K. Abel Knochel and Kristie L. Seelman
Chapter 8: Trans/Nonbinary Individuals and Homelessness
Jama Shelton and Twiggy Pucci Garcon
Chapter 9: Working with Transgender and Nonbinary Youth in the Child Welfare System
Richard A. Brandon-Friedman, Ryan Karnoski, and Seventy F. Hall
Section 3: Coming Out and Family
Chapter 10: Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Youth in their Coming Out Process
M. Killian Kinney and Finneran K. Muzzey
Chapter 11: Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Adults in Their Coming Out Processes
Jessie Read and Will R. Logan
Chapter 12: Supporting Caregivers and Families of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth
Richard A. Brandon-Friedman, Rand Warden, Rebecca Waletich, & Kelly L. Donahue
Chapter 13: Trans and Nonbinary Parenting
Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Christine Cocker, Rebecca Manning, & Keira McCormack
Section 4: Relationships and Sexuality
Chapter 14: Sex and Relationship Therapy with Trans and Nonbinary Individuals
Jennifer A. Vencill, Leonardo Candelario-Pérez, Ejay Jack, and G. Nic Rider
Chapter 15: Trans/Nonbinary Sexualities and Prioritizing Pleasure
Cassie Withey-Rila, Megan S. Paceley, Jennifer J. Schwartz, and Lynne M. Alexander
Chapter 16: Exploring Trans/Nonbinary Intimate Partner Violence: What to Know to Create Inclusive Spaces and Services
Lisa Langenderfer-Magruder and Andrew Seeber
Section 5: Communities
Chapter 17: Transgender and Nonbinary Youth Empowerment
M. Alex Wagaman and Aaron Kemmerer
Chapter 18: TNB Affirming Policy: Current Landscape, Issues, and Change Practices
Matthew Bakko, Leonardo Kattari, and Rory P. O’Brien
Chapter 19: Trans and Nonbinary Leadership and Civic Engagement
Heather Arnold-Renicker, Kyle Inselman, Jennifer Rivera, and Cameron T. Whitley
Chapter 20: Conducting Community-Based Participatory Research with Transgender/Nonbinary Individuals and Communities
Jonah P. DeChants, Jaime M. Grant, and Shanna K. Kattari
Chapter 21: Creating Safe Spaces: Digital as an Enabling Environment for TNB People
Nyx McLean
Section 6: Multiply Marginalized Identities and Populations
Chapter 22: Centering Trans/Nonbinary People of Color: Health Disparities, Resiliency, and Opportunities for Affirmative Clinical Practice
Darren L Whitfield, T.J. Jourian, and K. Tajhi Claybren
Chapter 23: At the Intersection of Trans and Disabled
Vern Harner and Ian M. Johnson
Chapter 24: Trans/Nonbinary and the Religious, Secular, and Spiritual
Kate M. Curley, Heather Brydie Harris, and Sage Marie Tyler Warren
Biography
Shanna K. Kattari (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (by courtesy), USA.
M. Killian Kinney (they/them) is a doctoral candidate and associate faculty in the School of Social Work at Indiana University, USA.
Leonardo Kattari (he/him/his) is a doctoral student in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University, USA.
N. Eugene Walls (he/him) is Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, USA.
"This book captures a depth and breadth of knowledge, practice and skill that should be required for all social work students and practitioners. It serves as an outstanding model of centering lived experiences, both in theory and in practice, and I cannot wait to refer people to it!" — Eli R. Green, CSES, The Transgender Training Institute, USA
"An extensive chronicle of the systems of oppression baked into our current structures and the everyday discrimination experienced by transgender and nonbinary communities. This work does justice to communities’ resistance in the face of this oppression and provides actionable anti-oppressive solutions for change. By co-creating knowledge with transgender and nonbinary authors, this book maximizes the impact it will have on the world." — Kimberly Bender, University of Denver, USA
"Once in a while a new book is published that opens your mind, and introduces you to new ideas, new concepts and new ways of practicing. Grounded in the most recent research and thinking about trans and nonbinary people and written in a scholarly style, while remaining a text that can stimulate and encourage competent discussions and debate amongst scholars and students in the classroom, this is a book which every practitioner should not only have on their bookshelves, but one that they should actually read and incorporate into their practice." — Gerald Mallon, Hunter College, USA
"An important work that rights a long-standing injustice in scholarship related to trans and nonbinary identities. With citations by pre-eminent scholars within the transgender community, it provides a rare authenticity while maintaining intellectual rigor. It references the work of the same experts that I turned to when I founded Trans Lifeline and embodies much of the spirit with which we did our work. For providers who honestly wish to engage in healing work in the transgender community I know of no better resource." — Greta Gustava Martela, Trans Lifeline founder, USA