Appropriate therapeutic care for families with pre-pubescent transgender/gender-dissonant children

Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-154

  Vanderburgh, Reid ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood gender variance; Gender dissonance; Gender identity; Gender roles; Gender variance; Identity emergence; Social transition; Transgender children

Indexed keywords

EID: 62449263713     PISSN: 07380151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10560-008-0158-5     Document Type: Article

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