Sections
Introduction | Rationales for Therapeutic Intervention | Treatment of the Child | Treatment of the Adolescent | Treatment of the Adult | Conclusion | References
Excerpt
Since its introduction to the psychiatric nomenclature in DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association 1980), the study of gender identity disorder (GID) in children, adolescents, and adults has advanced on several fronts: 1) its phenomenology has been well described; 2) the reliability and validity of the diagnosis have been established with reasonable success; 3) associated features have been identified; 4) follow-up studies have tracked its natural history; and 5) various etiological hypotheses have been examined (for reviews, see Cohen-Kettenis and Gooren 1999; Cohen-Kettenis and Pfäfflin 2003; Zucker 2004, 2005a, 2005b, 2006a; Zucker and Bradley 1995).