Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities

<p></p> <p>This book examines issues across the lifespan of transgender and nonbinary individuals whilst synthesizing conceptual work empirical evidence pedagogical content educational experiences and the voices of transgender and nonbinary individuals. It highlights the resilience and resistance of transgender and nonbinary individuals and communities to challenge narratives relying on one-dimensional perspectives of risk and tragic lives. </p> <p>While there is currently unprecedented visibility and increasing support members of these communities still face shockingly high rates of violence victimization unemployment discrimination and family rejection. Significant need for services and support coupled with social clinical and medical service systems ill-equipped to provide culturally responsive care illustrates the critical need for quality education and training of educators practitioners and service providers in best practices of working with members of the transgender and nonbinary community. </p> <p>Organized into six sections: </p> <ul> <li>Health </li> <li>Areas of Practice </li> <li>Coming Out and Family </li> <li>Relationships and Sexuality </li> <li>Communities </li> <li>Multiply Marginalized Identities and Populations </li></ul> <p>this book offers a current comprehensive and intersectional guide for students practitioners and researchers across a variety of professions including social work psychology public policy and health care. </p>