RT Book, Section
A1 VanderLaan, Doug P.
A1 Zucker, Kenneth J.
A2 Ebert, Michael H.
A2 Leckman, James F.
A2 Petrakis, Ismene L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1158264218
T1 Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents
T2 Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 3e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071754422
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158264218
RD 2024/04/18
AB Different  sets  of  criteria  are  used  in  the  Diagnostic  and  Statistical  Manual  of  Mental  Disorders,  Fifth  Edition  (DSM-5)  to  diagnose  Gender  Dysphoria  (GD)  in  children  vs.  adolescents.  (American  Psychiatric  Association,  2013).  Both  criteria  sets  emphasize  incongruence  between  the  experienced  gender  and  the  gender  assigned  at  birth.  The  experienced  gender  can  be  either  a  traditional  opposite-sex  gender  identity  or  some  alternative,  nontraditional  gender  identity  that  is  inconsistent  with  the  culturally  specific  gender  roles  associated  with  being  a  "man"  or  "woman."  As  with  many  diagnoses,  an  essential  criterion  is  the  presence  of  clinically  significant  distress  or  impairment  of  functioning  in  one  or  more  important  areas  (e.g.,  social  relationships,  school).  One  should  specify  whether  GD  co-occurs  with  a  disorder  of  sex  development  (DSD).  For  adolescents,  one  should  also  specify  whether  the  patient  has  undergone  a  gender  transition,  including  medical  procedures  to  align  the  patient's  physical  appearance  with  his  or  her  experienced  gender  identity.