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

By Stephen Koder M. B. B. S. Franzcp. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Reproductive Medicine, Social Psychology

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“I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives”: How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People (2009, background): “Other authors have provided information and guidelines for working with trans clients and their families (Ettner, 1999; Lev, 2004).”
Transgender youth and life-threatening behaviors. (2007, background): “…(2005) found that cross-gender role (i.e., personality traits associate with the Many helping professionals do not have accurate knowledge about the risks for suicidalopposite sex) was a predictor of suicide symptoms as determined on the Beck Suicide behavior among transgender youth (Lev, 2004).”
Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people. (2015, positive): “…of the high level of societal ignorance and stigma associated with TGNC people, ensuring that psychological education, training, and supervision is afﬁrma-tive, and does not sensationalize (Namaste, 2000), exploit, or pathologize TGNC people (Lev, 2004), will require care on the part of educators.”
American Counseling Association Competencies for Counseling with Transgender Clients (2010, positive): “, Myers & Sweeney, 2005), resilience (Singh, Hays, & Watson, in press; Singh & McKleroy, in press), and strength-based approach (e.g., Bockting, Knudson, & Goldberg, 2007; Carroll, 2010; Lev, 2004; Vanderburgh, 2009) for working with transgender clients.”
Psychological Interventions Promoting Resilience Among Transgender Individuals: Transgender Resilience Intervention Model (TRIM) (2018, background): “Transgender people are often victimized and rejected by their own families of origin and, therefore, may have a greater need to find a sense of belonging in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities compared to other marginalized groups (Lev, 2004).”
The Needs of Gender-Variant Children and Their Parents: A Parent Survey (2011, background): “This further distress suggests that the difficulties experienced by gender-variant children are perhaps caused by the pressures and abuse they face rather than any inherent gender differences (Di Ceglie, et al., 2002; Haldeman, 2000; Landolt, et al., 2004; Lev, 2004; Meyer-Bahlburg, 2010; Möller, et”
Beyond the Gender Binary: A Case Study of Two Transgender Students at a Midwestern Research University (2005, background): “An increasing number of studies of transgender people have been published in recent years (Denny, 1998; Devor, 1997; Lev, 2004; Rubin, 2003), but few of these works explore how youth come to identify as transgender, or propose a healthy, non-pathologized model of transgender identity development.”
Parent' Reactions to Transgender Youth' Gender Nonconforming Expression and Identity (2005, background): “Many social service professionals, families, schools, and peer groups are ill-equipped with accurate knowledge about these transgender youth in order to help them (Burgess, 1999; Lev, 2004).”
Transgender Emotional and Coping Processes (2013, background): “Sex, also referred to as biological sex or natal sex, encompasses the physiological and biological aspects of a person (Lev, 2004), whereas gender refers to an individual’s social, cultural, and psychological characteristics that pertain to stereotypes, norms, traits, and roles of men and women…”
Child, Family, and Community Transformations: Findings from Interviews with Mothers of Transgender Girls (2014, background): “Future areas of inquiry were suggested, including the experiences and roles of fathers and siblings, and the need for better understanding of how children’s struggle to express their gender nonconformity and transgender identities in sometimes hostile environments might result in children receiving ”
Being Transgender (2014, neutral): “…to the challenges that transgender people experience in mainstream society, according to participants in our study as well as previous literature (Denny et al., 2007; ‘‘Gay vs. trans,’’ 2007), many therapists lack knowledge of transgender issues and their intersecting identities (Lev, 2004).”
Gender identity affirmation among male-to-female transgender persons: a life course analysis across types of relationships and cultural/lifestyle factors (2009, methodology): “…persons gender identity affirmation, broadly analyzed across the life course, types of relationships and cultural/lifestyle factors, should provide a useful framework for better understanding the complex issues associated with the presentation of gender identity in American society (Lev, 2004).”
Gender Dysphoria: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (2013, background): “Research from history, anthropology, and the biological sciences seem to show that non-binary gender identities, gender transformations and transpositions, are ubiquitous across human and nonhuman communities, throughout history and cross-culturally (see Lev 2004).”
Coping and Psychological Distress Among Genderqueer Individuals: The Moderating Effect of Social Support (2014, background): “Gender identity is a core, internalized concept of self and describes the way a person feels about fitting into their gender category (Lev, 2004; Stryker, 2008).”
“The labels don't work very well”: Transgender individuals' conceptualizations of sexual orientation and sexual identity (2016, background): “The way that sexual-orientation labels and measurements require participants to gauge their desire by making individual sex/gender designations in relation to the individual/group of interest is particularly complicated by transgender identity or history (Dozier, 2005; Lev, 2004; van Anders, 2015).”
Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, Version 7 (2012, background): “Psychotherapy can be invaluable in assisting transsexual, transgender, and gender-nonconforming individuals with all of the following: (i) clarifying and exploring gender identity and role, (ii) addressing the impact of stigma and minority stress on one’s mental health and human development, and (ii”
Heterosexuals’ Attitudes Toward Transgender People: Findings from a National Probability Sample of U.S. Adults (2013, background): “For variables labeled 5 and 7-11, higher scores indicate greater levels of that variable. ATG 0 Attitudes Toward Gay Men scale. ATG scores range from 1 to 5; higher values indicate greater sexual prejudice Sex Roles (2013) 68:738–753 747”
“You Have to Give Them a Place Where They Feel Protected and Safe and Loved”: The Views of Parents Who Have Gender-Variant Children and Adolescents (2009, methodology): “In contrast to reparative models of therapy for families with gendervariant youth, Lev (2004) proposed a dramatic shift: the “family emergence model.””
Family support and discrimination and their relationship to psychological distress and resilience amongst transgender people (2018, background): “To a certain degree, however, affirming approaches to working with transgender adults have less often focused on the role of families (Lev, 2004, being a notable exception).”