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Transgender Care : Recom Guidelines, Practical Info /
By empowering clients to be well informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver discuss the k...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. 1. Recommended guidelines. 1. Introduction
- The vocabulary and the issues
- Transgender populations
- 2. Mental health
- Mental health services
- Psychiatric Diagnosis
- Crisis intervention
- Victimization
- Key mental health issues
- Sexual orientation
- Sexual orientation profiles
- Disclosure concerns
- Basic disclosure tools
- Disclosure to children
- Recommended guidelines for the residential placement and support of transgender individuals in social service, mental health, and correctional settings
- 3. Transgender hormone Administration
- Principles of hormone administration
- Hormone regimens : biological male to transgender female (MTF)
- Hormone regimens : biological female to transgender male (FTM)
- Natural hormones and compounding laboratories
- Clinical laboratory values
- Recommended guidelines for Hormone Administration
- 4. Transgender aesthetic surgery
- Principles of transgender aesthetic surgery
- Consumer preparedness
- Types of procedures
- Recommended guidelines for aesthetic surgery
- 5. Genital reassignment surgery and gonad removal (castration)
- Principles of genital reassignment surgery
- Types of procedures
- Consumer preparedness
- Recommended guidelines for genital reassignment surgery
- 6. HIV and AIDS
- Transgender support services and AIDS
- Basic HIV and AIDS information
- AIDS and the transgender individual
- HIV interviews
- Recommended guidelines for hormone administration, aesthetic surgery, and genital reassignment in HIV-positive and immunocompromised individuals
- 7. Cultural diversity
- Crosscultural differences and the provision of transgender care
- Ethnicity, race, and the transgender experience
- Recommended guidelines for transgender people or color
- 8. Transgender youth
- The transgender experience in adolescence
- Family response
- Society's responses
- Helping young people with gender issues
- Recommended guidelines for transgender youth
- 9. Support tools
- Advantage-disadvantage analysis
- First contact information
- Basic support group pointer
- Group focus survey
- Postsurgical follow-up letters
- Gender identity profile
- Courtesy disclosure letter
- 10. Support scenarios
- Gender differentiation and placement in residential treatment settings
- Gender-identity issues and alcohol dependency
- When resources are difficult to locate
- Employment concerns for the transgender individual
- Fears about victimization and coming out
- Postsurgical concerns
- Pt. 2. Essays. 11. Ethical implications for psychotherapy with individuals seeking gender reassignment / Barbara F. Andersen, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
- 12. Understanding your rights under the San Francisco Ordinance / Larry Brinkin
- Questions commonly asked about the ordinances
- Remedies
- Findings and recommendations
- 13. From the perspective of a young transsexual / Alexis Belinda Dinno
- 14. You are not alone : a personal quest for a support system / Ayme Michelle Kantz
- 15. A midlife transition / Heather Lamborn
- Insurance and the reimbursement of transgender health care / Lisa Middleton, M.P.A.
- Standard exclusionary language
- Transgender reimbursement legal issues
- Medical technology assessment practices
- Individual claim strategies
- Conclusions
- 17. Facial surgery for the transsexual / Douglas K. Ousterhout, D.D.S., M.D.
- Surgical procedures
- Conclusion
- 18. What is to be done? a commentary on the recommended guidelines / Rachel Pollack, M.A.
- 19. Genital reassignment surgery : a source of happiness for my patients / Eugene A. Schrang, M.D.
- 20. Over and out in academe : transgender studies come of age / Susan Stryker, Ph.D.
- 21. Transsexuality, science, and prophecy / Max Wolf Valeria
- 22. Hormones / Delia Van Maris, M.D.
- The therapist versus the client : how the conflict started and some thoughts on how to resolve it / Anne Vitale, Ph.D.