Richard R. Pleak

TL;DR: Adult psychiatrists who are not gender specialists in the delivery of respectful, clinically competent, and culturally attuned care to gender-variant patients, including those who identify as transgender or transsexual or meet criteria for the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria (GD).

TL;DR: The prediction that the majority of child and adolescent training programs would reflect a heightened awareness of the vulnerability of LGB youths was not confirmed and departmental attitudes about whether homosexuality represents a pathological condition were essentially equivalent in general and child programs.

TL;DR: This issue is the third since the beginning of the Child and Adolescents Psychiatric Clinics of North America in 1992 to deal substantially with gender identity issues in youth: gender variance and transgenderism.

TL;DR: JM was examined at the outpatient child psychiatry clinic of a local teaching hospital as part of an academic seminar designed to teach interviewing skills to child psychiatry res-

TL;DR: The Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has approved as a Resource Document a report of the APA Workgroup on Treatment of Gender Dysphoria titled “Assessment and treatment of Gender dysphoria and Gender Variant Patients: A Primer for Psychiatrists.”