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This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families.
List 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 GuidelinesTherapeutic 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 NurtureEssentially Constructed
- Categorical Classifications: If the Shoe Doesn't FitForce 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 EmergenceStep-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
About the author
Arlene (Ari) Istar Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CST is a social worker and family therapist, who is the Founder and Clinical Director of Choices Counseling and Consulting (www.choicesconsulting.com) where she has provided individual and family therapy in Albany NY for nearly 30 years. She is also the Director of TIGRIS--The Training Institute for Gender, Relationships, Identity, and Sexuality (www.TIGRISinstitute.com), a professional training program in Albany, New York. Arlene specializes in issues related to gender and sexuality, including working with the LGBTQ couples and families. She is a Credentialed Alcoholism Counselor and a Certified Sex Therapist (ASSECT).
Arlene is a part-time lecturer at the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare where she is the Project Director of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Project (SOGI). She is an international lecturer on issues related to sex and gender, and has taught at Smith College School for Social Work, Empire College, Vermont College, Union Institute and University, and the California School of Professional Psychology. Arlene has authored over 30 journal articles and book chapters and including authoring two books: The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide and Transgender Emergence, which was the winner of the American Psychological Association (Division 44) Distinguished Book Award, 2006.
Summary
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
