Transgender-specific factors related to healthcare professional students’ engagement in affirmative practice with LGBTQ+ clients

McInnis, Meghan K.; Gauvin, Stéphanie; Pukall, Caroline F.

doi:10.1080/19419899.2021.1905702

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“…cross-cultural research, gender identity, mental health provision, professional accounts, qualitative methodology Trans people have widely had to assume normative behaviors and lifestyles to comply with healthcare providers' expectations and meet criteria for access to specific services, such as hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery (Ferreira Florencio et al, 2020;McInnis et al, 2021;Occhino & Skewes, 2020). The normative adaptations of their life trajectories under the so-called "wrong body narrative" (comprising of early-onset cross-gender behavior, essentialist attributions of transness, and stability of "cross-gender identification") would often even contradict their everyday experiences (Johnson, 2019).…”

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“…This mediation has left the actual relationship dynamics in a secondary position. Psychologists' attitudes toward trans health users have been assessed (Giannou & Ioakimidis, 2019; Tosh, 2016); however, the ways in which they perform and experience this relationship with trans people have not been sufficiently examined, especially in conjugation with their specific sociocultural context (McInnis et al, 2021).…”

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Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study

Argyriou

2023

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Trans people's relationship with mental health providers carries historical tensions. Counseling services have been tied to standardized procedures or diagnostic certification of dysphoria and gender evaluations, while other psychosocial demands have been largely disregarded. Moreover, protocols and approaches focus disproportionately on Anglo‐American frameworks, in terms of epistemic resources established to describe gender‐diverse experiences. These issues affect both representations of gender identity and attitudes toward counseling. The present study aimed to address psychologists' accounts cross‐culturally, by using qualitative data acquired through interviews with active practitioners from Spain and Greece. Eighteen qualitative semi‐structured interviews were conducted in both countries in order to delve into the narratives related to trans mental health care provision. Thematic analysis using Atlas.ti was used to systematize the data. The accounts centered on gender identity representations and attributions, attitudes toward counseling, relationship with diagnoses, psychological approaches, and competent training. Findings point to the need for all‐encompassing, obligatory training of psychologists on trans mental health, followed by situated considerations of the contextual factors that may contribute to experiencing gender diversity differently. More cross‐cultural qualitative accounts are thus encouraged, to enrich and update the upcoming trans literature on the matter.

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