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Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender-Variant People and Their Families
by: Arlene Lev

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8583
EAN: 9780789021175
ISBN: 078902117X
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: March 02, 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Sales Rank: 62438
Studio: Routledge

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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 transgendered 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.

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- not a stuffy textbook-type read
Much of the time reading books from professional book publishers are like running through mud--lots of hard work and very tiring. Transgender Emergence is packed with excellent information that is written in an accessible style. I've learned a great deal and feel comfortable recommending the book to clients who are struggling with gender issues, including transgender and intersex.

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- Disappointing and superficial
I don't know what's more depressing - finally reading this book or reading all the full-starred reviews where everyone conflates sexual orientation with sexual identity.

This book is a basic introduction to the concept of trans identities. It has some clinical models, some heartfelt anecdotes and a lot of misinformation that perpetuates stereotypes and therefore violence. Like the ridiculous concept that all transmen were once butch lesbians. The author has taken one person's experience and extrapolated that to be all-encompassing. It limits horrifically what it means to have a trans identity and I can only hope that others will publish different experiences so that we are closer to seeing a more complex picture.

That said, it's better than what else is out there for care providers. If this excites people to know that transfolk exist and we don't as a general rule go about raping women ... Read More

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- An essential guide for those working with the GLBT population
Lev's "Transgender Emergence" provides the most comprehensive outline and review of empirical literature pertaining to the assessment, treatment, and understanding of transgendered individuals to date. Any mental health professional working with the GLBT population MUST add this to their collection, as well as, provide Lev's work as psychoeducational therapy to patients and their significant others. Additionally, psychologists working in forensic populations or with issues of sexuality should review this book for an overview of the etiology, epidemiology,theoretical understandings, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients presenting with gender identity disorders or dysphoria.

Lev's work is a masterpiece and should be required by MA, PsyD, and PhD programs in diversity training. It provides a non-judgemental, well-written, and well-researched voice to a population which has been largely ignored by ... Read More

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- A book for everyone
This book is outstanding in every respect. The cover, however, I feel may unfortunately narrow its readership - "Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families." I am a lay person who is fairly well read on the subject matter and I find that this book would valuable for anyone to read. It has the potential to help emancipate the transgendered population that is still stigmatized and oppressed by the medical profession and society including religion and politics. It certainly should be required reading for policy makers in the government, the legal profession, the justice system, human resource personnel, etc. The book is not only well researched and well written, it is easily understandable by anyone, meaning that no background in the field of psychiatry is required to be able to appreciate the material. The book is very up-to-date (2004). The Publisher would do well to advertise ... Read More

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