Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices / Edition 1

by Peggy T Cohen-Kettenis, Friedemann Pfäfflin

Overview

Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence: Making Choices presents an overview of the research, clinical insights, and ethical dilemmas relevant to clinicians who treat intersex youth and their families. Exploring gender development from a cross-cultural perspective, esteemed scholar Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis and experienced practitioner Friedemann Pfäfflin focus on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment issues. To bridge research and practical application, they include numerous case studies, definitions of relevant terminology, and salient chapter summaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761917106
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/24/2003
Series:	Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry , #46
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis, Ph.D., is Professor of gender development and psychopathology at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht. She was a pre- and postgraduate student in developmental and clinical psychology at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. She was trained to become a registered clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Utrecht Institute for Multidisciplinary Psychotherapy. After completing her Ph.D. thesis, she worked at the Department of Clinical Psychology of the Utrecht University. There, she conducted a study evaluating sex reassignment, promoted by the advice of a committee of the Health Council, the medical advisory board of the Ministry of Public Health. The outcome of this study would also be the groundwork for a new law allowing transsexuals to adjust their birth certificates. In 1987, she started the first outpatient clinic in Europe for children and adolescents with gender problems and intersex conditions. In September 2002, she will become Professor of Medical Psychology at the Free University Medical Center in Amsterdam. There, she will be the head of a gender clinic for children, adolescents, and adults. Her main areas of research are gender identity problems and gender-related psychopathology.

Friedemann Pfafflin, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Psychotherapy and head of the Forensic Psychotherapy Unit at Ulm University, Germany. Trained as a psychiatrist at Hamburg University, he first engaged in transgender clinical work in the mid-1970s when he visited the Psychohormonal Research Unit and the Gender Identity Clinic at The Johns Hopkins University Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1978 to 1992, he worked at the Institute of Sex Research at Hamburg University, Germany, and continued the work with transsexuals after moving to Ulm University in 1992. His main areas of research are transsexualism, transgenderism, psychotherapy process research, forensic psychiatry and psychotherapy, and history of psychiatry. From 1995 to 1997, he was President of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Inc. Together with Eli Coleman, he founded The International Journal of Transgenderism in 1997.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction - Alan E. Kazdin
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Typical Sexual Differentiation
General Terminology
Sexual Differentiation
Development of Gender Identity and Gender Role
2. Gender Identity Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence
Benefit of Historical and Cross-Cultural Data for Clinical Practice
Cross-Cultural and Historical References (Adults)
Cross-Cultural and Historical References (Children and Adolescents)
3. Atypical Sexual Differentiation
Introduction
Chromosomal/Gonadal Conditions
Female Pseudohermaphroditism
Male Pseudohermaphroditism
Other Conditions
4. Atypical Development of Gender Identity and Gender Role
Specific Terminology
Clinical Picture
Correspondence Between Childhood Gender Identity Disorder and Transsexualism
Prevalence and Sex Ratio of GID
Theories About Atypical Gender Development
5. Clinical Management of Intersex Conditions
Importance of Parent Counseling
Importance of Child Counseling
Neonatal Approach
Information and Support
Criticism of Clinical Policy
6. Clinical Management of Gender Problems in Children
Introduction
Diagnosis
Interventions
7. Clinical Management of Gender Problems in Adolescents
Diagnosis
Interventions
Effects of Sex Reassignment
8. Legal Issues of Intersexuality and Transsexualism
Legal Sex Assignment of Intersexes
Legal Implications of Transsexualism in Adults
Legal Issues of GID in Childhood and Adolescence
References
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Authors