PSY 1205 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cross-Dressing, Aversion Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Abnormal Final Study Guide:
Sex/Gender:
History: Treated with reparative/conversion therapy, ineffective, potentially harmful.
Mental health concerns in sexual minorities:
● Higher rates anxiety depression (lack of self-acceptance, eases once accept
themselves, or due to bullying)
● Higher rates substance abuse
● Higher rates suicide and suicidal ideation.
Contemp LGBT Mental Health:
● Youth coming out at younger ages than before.
● Younger coming out intersects with dvlptl period already characterized by self-
consciousness, conformity, peer-regulation.
● Take LGBT mental health within context of other identitiy (race, culture, religion).
● Sig advance in school/govt policies to have supportive envt.
DSM:
● Sep chapters for gender dysphoria, paraphil disorders, sexual dysfunction.
Terms:
● Sex: biological indicators of male/female. Gender: lived, social role as bot/man or
girl/woman.
● Transgender: individual who transiently/persistently ID with a gender different from their
born sex. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re changing their sex, just changing how they
socially ID and present to the world.
● Transsexual: individuals who seek/undergo social transition from male to female or
female to male, may involve cross sex hormones.
● Gender reassignment: official/legal change of gender. Gender dysphoria: distress that
comes with incongruence between experienced gender vs assigned gender.
Gender Dysphoria: marked incongruence between one’s experienced gender and assigned
gender for 6+ months.
● Gender non-conformity itself is NOT a mental disorder.Diagnosis based on evidence of
clinically significant distress of the individual and increased access to support and other
services. Formerly “gender identity disorder”
● Can be diagnosed in children (different criteria for diagnosis in children vs adults).
● Symptoms: need 2+ to diagnose: desire to be rid of one’s primary or secondary sex
characteristics b/c of incongruence, desire to be other gender, desire to be treated as
other gender, conviction that one has typical feelings of the other gender.
● Causal factors: prenatal hormonal influences (high exposure to sex hormones in utero?).
Genetic (relatively heritable). Brain differences?
Transsexualism: adults with gender dysphoria who desire to change their sex. Not in DSM.
● Autogynephilic transsexualism: sexual attraction to though or image of oneself as
female- “becoming what we love”. These men not very feminine at young age or yes
very feminine?
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Document Summary
History: treated with reparative/conversion therapy, ineffective, potentially harmful. Higher rates anxiety depression (lack of self-acceptance, eases once accept themselves, or due to bullying) Youth coming out at younger ages than before. Younger coming out intersects with dvlptl period already characterized by self- consciousness, conformity, peer-regulation. Take lgbt mental health within context of other identitiy (race, culture, religion). Sig advance in school/govt policies to have supportive envt. Sep chapters for gender dysphoria, paraphil disorders, sexual dysfunction. Gender: lived, social role as bot/man or girl/woman. Transgender: individual who transiently/persistently id with a gender different from their born sex. Doesn"t necessarily mean they"re changing their sex, just changing how they socially id and present to the world. Transsexual: individuals who seek/undergo social transition from male to female or female to male, may involve cross sex hormones. Gender dysphoria: distress that comes with incongruence between experienced gender vs assigned gender. Gender dysphoria: marked incongruence between one"s experienced gender and assigned gender for 6+ months.
