FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gender Dysphoria, Gender Variance, Dysfunctional Family
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Appropriate therapeutic care for families with pre-pubescent transgender/gender-dissonant children (research study #4) Vanderburgh, 2009 (all of them need to redo) Be sure to clarify the difference between a social and physical transition in your explanation. Social present yourself as a different gender. Be sure to clarify the difference between these two terms in your explanation. Someone maybe showing gender dissonance and gender variance at the same time. (josie thinks herself as a girl but still shows a lot of male behaviour) Gender identity actualization or gender identity disorder? (exam 3 close book: in 1973, homosexuality was removed from the dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual, which outlines criteria used by psychiatrists to diagnose mental illnesses). According to lev (2004) and rudacille (2005) this removal from the dsm resulted in more mainstream acceptance of gay/lesbian/bisexual identities. Gender identity disorder(gender dysphoria) is still included as a mental disorder in the dsm.
