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Major University Establishes New LGBT Health Center

March 07, 2013 | Cultural Psychiatry, Gender Disorders
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Research efforts for LGBT patients include creating innovative medical and mental health services that lead to the training of students and practitioners and promote the development of outreach strategies specific to today’s critical needs.

Gender Identity Disorder in Prison: Depending on a Diagnosis That Is Soon to Disappear?

September 28, 2012 | On DSM-5, DSM-5, Forensic Psychiatry, Gender Disorders, Schizophrenia Psychotic Features
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A recent case has caused a flurry of opposing opinions. Not surprisingly, transgender advocacy groups have praised the judge's decision that the inmate in question has an eighth amendment right requiring the state to support and pay for sex reassignment surgery.

Working With Transgender Persons

September 06, 2012 | Gender Disorders, Cultural Psychiatry, Addiction, Alcohol Abuse
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Using a question-and-answer format, we present a brief overview of issues that arise when mental health professionals explore how to best serve this population.

The Transgender Conundrum

August 03, 2012 | Gender Disorders
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Transphobia is rampant in the US. Transgendered and LGBTs are bullied and victimized at alarmingly high rates. How, then, to protect these people from physical harm and treat mental health concerns?

Sex Orientation Change Therapy: Back in the Headlines

July 13, 2012 | Gender Disorders, Addiction
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A bill banning mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts with patients passed the California Senate just weeks after prominent psychiatrist Robert Spitzer, MD, apologized to the gay community for his 2003 study.

LGBT: Tips for Trans-Inclusion in Mental Health

July 09, 2012 | Gender Disorders
By and H. Steven Moffic, MD

Psychiatrists, physicians, and mental health professionals are often asked to treat patients facing issues of sexual orientation and gender identity. Here are quick Tips for trans-inclusion of LGBTs.

Sexual Minority Identity Development

December 16, 2011 | Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Cultural Psychiatry, Gender Disorders, Sexual Addiction, Addiction, Alcohol Abuse
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Sexual identity development is a complex, multidimensional, and often fluid process. One must consider cognitive, social, emotional, cultural, and familial complexities among other aspects of the individual’s experience to contextualize a narrative concerning sexual identity development.

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