
ACT for Gender Identity
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This is the go-to-guide for evidence-based ACT techniques to be used by professionals to help their transgender, genderqueer, genderfluid, third gender and agender clients. It provides the tools to help these clients develop emotional processing skills they can implement throughout their life, from coping with mental health issues and substance abuse, to navigating prejudice and social pressure, to building a career and developing a family.
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- Intro
- ACT for Gender Identity
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Storm Cloud Butterflies
- References
- Index
- 2. Gender Affirmative ACT
- Gender and relational frame theory
- Gender and functional contextualism
- Translating gender
- Translating sexuality
- Translating intersectionality
- The mindful clinician
- 3. Awareness
- Gender fusion and the agenda of emotional control
- Mindfulness and the observational self
- 4. Acceptance
- Presenting creative hopelessness
- Presenting emotional acceptance
- Accepting dysphoria: Schrödinger's gender
- Accepting gender: Defusing fear and denial
- Accepting kids: Mindful parenthood
- Accepting teens: Relational frame theory meets relational-cultural theory
- Accepting adults: Defusing cissexism and inadequacy
- 5. Actualization
- Identifying values and defusing gender roles
- Value-congruent action and the ACT matrix
- Value integration
- Value-congruent disclosure
- Value-congruent expression
- Value-congruent self-actualization
- 6. Adaptation
- Old stories and new resources: ACT for risk-taking behavior
- Befriending bodies: ACT for body dysmorphia
- Driving dazed: ACT for dissociation
- Hedgehogs and butterflies: ACT for anxiety and trauma
- The velvet cage: ACT for depression
- Building bridges: ACT for suicidal ideation
- 7. Affirmation
- Rolling dice: Defusing social roles
- The affection effect: Relationship norms
- Family fusion: Family of origin and choice
- Occupational chess: Gender, academia, and the workplace
- Health, stealth, and hospitals: Gender affirmative medicine
- Legacy and life: ACT for gender variant seniors
- Epilogue: Of Moths and Meaning
- References
- Index
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