A systems approach to child effeminacy and the prevention of adolescent transsexualism

Wrate, R.M.; Gulens, V.

Journal of Adolescence 9(3): 215-229

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0140-1971
PMID: 3782580
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-1971(86)80004-5
Document Number: 384456
This paper describes the treatment of a boy with transsexual behaviour by means of family therapy supplemented by group therapy. It argues that a family systems approach can grasp dimensions of the problems of transsexualism that are missed if an exclusively individual treatment approach is adopted, and concludes that a family systems approach should be part of the assessment and treatment of all children and adolescents presenting with effeminacy or transsexual problems.

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