Adult Transgender Care

An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals
Herausgeber: Kauth, Michael R; Shipherd, Jillian C

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Adult Transgender Care provides an overview of transgender health and offers a comprehensive approach to training mental health professionals in transgender care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781138229037
• ISBN-10: 1138229032
• Artikelnr.: 49783343

Autorenporträt

Michael R. Kauth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas, and one of two directors of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Program within the Office of Patient Care Services in the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Kauth is also co-director of the South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) and professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Jillian C. Shipherd, PhD, is a clinical research psychologist at the Women¿s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and one of two directors of the LGBT Program within the Office of Patient Care Services in the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Shipherd is also associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, many of which are on transgender issues.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How to Begin: An Introduction to the Book Kauth & Shipherd 2. Scientific
and Cultural Perspectives on the Gender Binary Johnson 3. The
Intersectionality of Minority Identities and Health Blosnich 4. Providing a
Welcoming Clinic Environment Cochran, Reed, and Gleason 5. Supporting the
Transgender Individual in Deciding their Pathway Hopwood 6. Preparing
Clients for Hormone Therapy Firek & Sawan-Garcia 7. The High-Risk Client:
Comorbid Conditions that Affect Care Sloan & Safer 8. Dialectical Behavior
Therapy as a Treatment Option for Complex Cases of Gender Dysphoria Sloan &
Berke 9. Pursuing Gender Transitioning Surgeries Schechter & Schechter 10.
Adjunctive Interventions: Supportive Services for Gender Role Transitions
Boedecker 11. Identity and Support Letters Keo-Meier, Ducheny, & Hendricks
12. Finding Additonal Resources Keig & Green 13. Sexual Health Among
Transgender People Sheffield & Keuroghlian 14. Implementing a Transgender
Care Policy in a National Healthcare System Shipherd, Kauth, & Brown