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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 nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity and acknowledges the role of oppression in the developmental process of gender identity formation. Specific sections of Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families address the needs of gender-variant people as well as transgender children and youth. The issues facing gender-variant populations who have not been the focus of clinical care, such as intersexed people, female-to-male transgendered people, and those who identify as bigendered, are also addressed. The book examines: * the six stages of transgender emergence * coming out transgendered as a normative process of gender identity development * thinking outside the box in the deconstruction of sex and gender * the difference between sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as the convergence, overlap, and integration of these parts of the self* the power of personal narrative in gender identity development * etiology and typographies of transgenderism * treatment models that emerge from various clinical perspectives * alternative treatment modalities based on gender variance as a normative lifecycle developmental process Complete with fascinating case studies, a critique of diagnostic processes, treatment recommendations, and a helpful glossary of relevant terms, this book is an essential reference for anyone who works with gender-variant people. Handy tables and figures make the information easier to access and understand. Visit the author's Web site at http://www.choicesconsulting.com

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Author:   Arlene Istar Lev ,  Christine Jones ,  Valerie Jowett
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ebooks
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781136384882

ISBN 10:   113638488
Pages:   506
Publication Date:   20 November 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

* 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

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