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Psychological Management in Adolescence and Beyond

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Patients with DSD need considerable psychological management to enable them to reach their full potential in life without abnormal psychosexual development, so that their gender identity, gender role and sexual orientation can form unhindered by the biological, social and psychological effects of their DSD. During adolescence there may issues of gender dysphoria, and the psychiatrist is an important part of the team needed to diagnose and counsel patients as they come to terms with their sense of who they are. In patients with gender-identity disorder the psychiatrist is the key clinician involved in the management.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two makes four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

Winston Churchill.

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  1. , Department of Urology, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia

    John M. Hutson

  2. , Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia

    Garry L. Warne

  3. , Department of Gynaecology, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, 3052, Victoria, Australia

    Sonia R. Grover

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Kasiannan, P. (2012). Psychological Management in Adolescence and Beyond. In: Hutson, J., Warne, G., Grover, S. (eds) Disorders of Sex Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22964-0_24

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