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Between pink and blue: a multi-dimensional family approach to gender nonconforming children and their families. |
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Family Process, 50(4), December 2011, pp.453-470. |
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0014-7370 |
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1545-5300 |
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Families may struggle to accept a child who does not fit within social gender norms, or they may be mainly concerned for their child’s welfare and unsure about the adequate ways to handle the challenge. They need to be able to negotiate the interactions between 2 gender systems: a rigid gender binary imported from familial, social, and cultural experiences; and a fluid gender spectrum articulated by their child. This article reviews parental reactions to nonconforming gender developments and poses that the parental mandates of protection and acceptance are problematised by the difference of gender norms between the child and the family as well as the child and the environment. It describes how the Multi-Dimensional Family Approach can support gender nonconforming children and their parents in negotiating tasks, ordinary to most families, which are made complicated by the nonconformity of the child. Through multiple therapeutic modalities, such as parental coaching and education, parent support group, and child and family therapy, the article illustrates interventions supporting both parents and prepubescent children in their negotiation of safety, connection, and fluidity. Case vignettes are used to illustrate the method. |
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children; family therapy; gender; parenting; parents; social work approaches; transgendered people; |
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