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Transgender Care: Recom Guidelines, Practical Info
Gianna E. Israel
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Description for Transgender Care: Recom Guidelines, Practical Info
paperback. Discusses the nature of transgender care. This book examines the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. It contains practical information and accounts of people's experiences about coming out to one's employer or to one's friends or spouse. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ5; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
By empowering clients to be well informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role, that of the \u0022Gender Specialist.\u0022 The authors have also provided useful listings of organizations, centers, and World Wide Web sites. Transgender Care has been reviewed by a national committee of professionals and consumers, some ... Read more
By empowering clients to be well informed medical consumers and by delivering care providers from the straitjacket of inadequate diagnostic standards and stereotypes, this book sets out to transform the nature of transgender care. In an accessible style, Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver discuss the key mental health issues, with much attention to the vexed relationship between professionals and clients. They propose a new professional role, that of the \u0022Gender Specialist.\u0022 The authors have also provided useful listings of organizations, centers, and World Wide Web sites. Transgender Care has been reviewed by a national committee of professionals and consumers, some ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Temple University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566398527
SKU
V9781566398527
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About Gianna E. Israel
Gianna E. Israel has been in private practice as a gender specialist since 1988. She has worked with over one thousand transgendered men and women, and is also a member of the transgender community. She is a founding member of the board of American Education Gender Information Service (AEGIS). Donald E. Tarver, II, M.D., is a San Francisco ... Read more
Reviews for Transgender Care: Recom Guidelines, Practical Info
"The title tells pretty much what this groundbreaking anthology offers: a comprehensive distillation of personal experiences and professional wisdom." -Feminist Bookstore News "Professionals who work with individuals with gender identity issues and those with gender issues themselves have long needed a comprehensive guide to treatment. Finally, it is here. Gianna Israel and Donald Tarver have done a wonderful job of ... Read more