Adult Transgender Care

<p><em>Adult Transgender Care</em> 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. <em>Adult Transgender Care</em> meets a unique need by providing detailed information, clinical interventions, case studies, and resources for mental health professionals on transgender care.</p> <p>1. How to Begin: An Introduction to the Book <em>Kauth & Shipherd</em> 2. Scientific and Cultural Perspectives on the Gender Binary <em>Johnson</em> 3. The Intersectionality of Minority Identities and Health <em>Blosnich</em> 4. Providing a Welcoming Clinic Environment <em>Cochran, Reed, and Gleason</em> 5. Supporting the Transgender Individual in Deciding their Pathway <em>Hopwood</em> 6. Preparing Clients for Hormone Therapy <em>Firek & Sawan-Garcia </em>7. The High-Risk Client: Comorbid Conditions that Affect Care <em>Sloan & Safer</em> 8. Dialectical Behavior Therapy as a Treatment Option for Complex Cases of Gender Dysphoria <em>Sloan & Berke</em> 9. Pursuing Gender Transitioning Surgeries <em>Schechter & Schechter</em> 10. Adjunctive Interventions: Supportive Services for Gender Role Transitions <em>Boedecker</em> 11. Identity and Support Letters <em>Keo-Meier</em>, <em>Ducheny, & Hendricks </em>12. Finding Additonal Resources <em>Keig & Green</em> 13. Sexual Health Among Transgender People <em>Sheffield & Keuroghlian</em> 14. Implementing a Transgender Care Policy in a National Healthcare System <em>Shipherd, Kauth, & Brown</em></p>