num_pages: 500
description: Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clientsThis comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender 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 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 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 
language: English
title: Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families
titlecomplete: Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families
genres: Gender, Nonfiction, LGBT, Queer, Social Work, Psychology, Feminism, Transgender, Mental Health
ratings_count: 74
publisher: The Howorth Clinical Practice Press