Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents, An Issue of Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 32-4 - September 23, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Scott Liebowitz, Serena Chang, Natalia Ramos
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 8 6 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 8 6 2 - 4
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Scott Leibowitz, Serena Chang, and Natalia Ramos bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as complex psychiatric histories and gender diverse/transgender youth; neurodiversity and transgender/gender diverse youth: the co-occurrence; individual affirming care: psychological and social approaches to trans and gender diverse youth; psychosocial family treatments and navigating family dynamics; and more.
Contains 16 relevant, practice-oriented topics including gender in youth; beyond sex and gender: dimensions across child and adolescent development; gender affirming medical treatments; perspectives: being a trans psychiatrist/provider; and more.
Provides in-depth clinical reviews on transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Gender Literacy Across Childhood and Adolescence
- Key points
- Introduction
- Sexual orientation
- Sex/gender
- Gender Expression and Gender Roles
- Terminology
- Pronouns
- Intersex
- Etiology of gender diversity
- LGBTQ identities and the DSM: gender dysphoria
- Psychiatric implications and protective factors
- Gender transition
- Treatment and care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Traumatic Stress and Resilience Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
- Key points
- Introduction
- Neurobiological underpinnings of toxic stress
- Psychosocial impacts of identity-related toxic stress
- Physical health impacts of identity-related toxic stress
- Distinct stressors facing TGD youth
- Resilience and protective factors for TGD youth
- Implications for clinical care
- Summary
- Clinic care points
- Beyond Race, Sex, and Gender: Mental Health Considerations of Transgender Youth of Color, Intersex Youth, and Nonbinary Youth
- Key points
- Introduction
- Intersectional care for transgender and nonbinary youth of color
- Intersex youth
- Nonbinary youth
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Assessment of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents: Incorporating the World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standard of Care 8th Edition
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Summary of content
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Assessment of Gender Diverse Children: Incorporating the Standard of Care 8th Edition
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary of child standard of care 8 content
- Methods of information gathering
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Complex Psychiatric Histories and Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
- Key points
- Introduction
- Transgender youth and minority stress
- Psychological impacts of minority stress
- Gender dysphoria and complex psychiatric conditions
- Adaptive assessment and treatment approach
- Discussion and future research
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Common Intersection of Autism and Gender Diversity in Youth: Clinical Perspectives and Practices
- Key points
- The nature of the common co-occurrence of autism and gender diversity
- Ethical considerations in care
- Clinical practices: priorities and unknowns
- Clinics care points: the evidence base
- Future directions
- Disclosure
- Individual Affirming Care: Psychological and Social Approaches to Trans and Gender-Diverse Youth
- Key points
- Introduction
- Background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Family-Based Psychosocial Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Youth
- Key points
- Introduction
- Trauma and transgender and gender-diverse youth
- Assessment
- Considerations
- Evidence-based interventions and integrated Family Acceptance Project-Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy model
- Approach
- Enhancing safety
- Psychoeducation and parenting skills
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Gender-Affirming Medical Treatments
- Key points
- Introduction
- Benefits of gender-affirming medical treatments in transgender and gender diverse youth
- Puberty suppression
- Hormone therapy
- Menstrual suppression
- Fertility preservation
- Chest dysphoria and mastectomies
- Gender-affirming medical treatments for nonbinary youth
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Dynamic Gender Identities and Expressions: Detransition and Affirming Non-linear Gender Pathways Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
- Key points
- Introduction
- Current literature on transition discontinuation and detransition
- Clinical case examples
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Supporting Transgender Youth Across Psychosocial Systems
- Key points
- Introduction
- Supporting transgender youth in schools
- Supporting transgender youth in communities
- Supporting transgender youth in religious institutions
- Supporting transgender youth in rural settings
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Appendix 1. Resources to support transgender youth
- Systems-Involved Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth: Homelessness, Juvenile Legal Systems, and Child Welfare and Foster Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Transgender and gender-diverse youth experiencing homelessness
- Transgender and gender-diverse youth and the juvenile legal system
- Transgender and gender-diverse youth and the child welfare and foster care systems
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in Inpatient and Other Residential Care
- Key points
- Background
- Discussion
- Environment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Puberty for Transgender Kids and Their Parents: Impressions from a Mom
- Key points
- Puberty was a crisis
- Hormone blockers or no?
- Next stop: testosterone
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 32-4
- Published: September 23, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323938617
- eBook ISBN: 9780323938624
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Scott Liebowitz
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Clinical Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, The Ohio State University, Nationwide Children’s HospitalSC
Serena Chang
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University Langone HealthNR
Natalia Ramos
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Clinical Professor, Child, Adolescent, & Adult Psychiatrist, Medical Director, Division of Population Behavioral Health, University of California Los Angeles