Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1138229024 ISBN 13 : 9781138229020

Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Adult Transgender Care provides an overview of transgender health and offers a comprehensive approach to training mental health professionals in transgender care. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to transgender care, emphasizing the complementary contributions of psychiatry, psychology, and social work in providing transgender care within an integrated treatment team. Included in this text are overviews of how to conceptualize and provide treatment with complex and difficult clinical presentations and considerations for understanding how to address system-level challenges to treatment. Adult Transgender Care meets a unique need by providing detailed information, clinical interventions, case studies, and resources for mental health professionals on transgender care.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael R. Kauth, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, Texas, and one of two directors of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Program within the Office of Patient Care Services in the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Kauth is also co-director of the South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) and professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Jillian C. Shipherd, PhD, is a clinical research psychologist at the Women's Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and one of two directors of the LGBT Program within the Office of Patient Care Services in the Veterans Health Administration. Dr. Shipherd is also associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, many of which are on transgender issues.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138229024
• ISBN 13: 9781138229020
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Éditeur: Kauth Michael R., Shipherd Jillian C.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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