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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arlene Istar Lev |
| ISBN: | 0789007088 9780789007087 078902117X 9780789021175 |
| OCLC Number: | 51342468 |
| Description: | xxix, 467 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 [sic] 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. |
| Series Title: | Haworth marriage and the family. |
| Responsibility: | Arlene Istar Lev. |
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