Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families

ISBN-13: 9780789021175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 500 str.

Arlene Istar Lev;Haworth Clinical Practice Press

Opis

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.
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Spis treści

• 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

O autorze

Arlene Istar Lev, Arlene Istar Lev