How Therapists And Parents Can Support Transgender Teenagers? A Clinical Psychology and Developmental Psychology Podcast Episode.

Whether you’re a parent or a therapist of a teenager and they make a gender disclosure to you, this can be a potentially uncertain and scary time for both of you. For therapists, you might be uncertain about how to support a transgender person specifically. For parents, you might not know how to support your transgender teenager as well as clients might want to disclose their affirmed gender in a therapy session with the parent so they have the support of a therapist during the disclosure. Since as you’ll see later in the episode, self-harm, suicide and depression are unfortunately common effects of transgender people not being in a supportive environment. Therefore, in this clinical psychology podcast episode, you’ll how supporting a transgender teenager is critical and how therapists and parents can support transgender teenagers. If you enjoy learning about mental health, psychotherapy and transgender topics, you’ll love today’s episode.

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