A Clinician’s Guide to Gender Identity and Body Image

by Heidi Dalzell, Kayti Protos

This accessible guide for clinicians and clinical students working in the fields of eating disorders and transgender health psychology offers useful tips, constructive case studies and reflective questions that enable readers to feel better equipped in supporting their clients' needs. The book addresses the clinical challenges a therapist may encounter, and provides advice on the key issues involved in therapeutic work with transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive clients, including trauma, minority stress, coming out, family support, appearance and body changes. This book will inspire clinicians to bridge the disconnect between the clinical criteria for eating disorders and the type of eating disorder manifesting in a client with co-occurring gender dysphoria.

224 pages, Paperback

Published January 21, 2020

Reviews

[kf · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full of accurate information, but very short and basic. Had lots of useful anecdotes and would have preferred more in-depth case studies.

[Kait Vanderlaan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful resource for clinicians full of case examples and practical ideas to use with clients.