recommended guidelines, practical information, and personal accounts
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Israel, Gianna E.
- Creator
- Tarver, Donald E. II
- Creator
- Shaffer, Joy Diane > (forew.)
- Contributor
- Vitale, Anne
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 1997 - B
- Thesaurus
- transseksualiteit, gezondheidszorg, hulpverlener cliënt relatie, hormonen, plastische chirurgie, mensenrechten, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens, bundel
- Description
- A guide for the treatment of gender identity issues. Part I contains recommended guidelines dealing with mental health, transgender hormone administration, transgender aesthetic surgery, genital reassignment surgery and gonad removal, HIV and AIDS, cultural diversity, transgender youth, support tools and scenarios. Part II contains the following essays: Ethical implications for psychotherapy with individuals seeking gender reassignment / by Barbara F. Anderson: Understanding your rights under San Francisco Ordinance / by Larry Brinkin: From the perspective of a young transsexual / by Alexis Belinda Dinno: You are not alone: a personal quest for a support system / by Ayme Michelle Kantz: A midlife transition / by Heather Lamborn: Insurance and reinbursement of transgender health care / by Lisa Middleton: Facial surgery for the transsexual / by Douglas K. Ousterhout: What is to be done? A commentary on the recommended guidelines / by Rachel Pollack: Genital reassignment surgery: a source of happiness for my patients / by Eugene A. Schrang: Over and out in academe: transgender studies come of age / by Susan Stryker: Transsexuality, science, and prophecy / by Max Wolf Valerio: Hormones / by Delia van Maris: The therapist versus the client: how the conflict started and some thoughts on how to resolve it / by Anne Vitale.