School refusal by patients with gender identity disorder

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-303

  Terada, Seishi ^a   Matsumoto, Yosuke ^a   Sato, Toshiki ^b   Okabe, Nobuyuki ^a   Kishimoto, Yuki ^a   Uchitomi, Yosuke ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sato Mental Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gender; Gender identity disorder; School refusal; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVORCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL DROPOUT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TRANSSEXUALISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860371805     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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