Valuing the gender-variant therapist: Therapeutic experiences, tools, and implications of a female-to-male trans-variant clinician

Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-65

  Blumer, Markie C L ^a   Barbachano, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical supervision; Female to male transsexual; Feminist therapy; Gender variant; Self of the therapist; Therapist development; Therapy training; Trans clinician; Trans variant; Transgender; Transsexual

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449102324     PISSN: 08952833     EISSN: 15404099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0895280801907135     Document Type: Article

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