title: A systems approach to child effeminacy and the prevention of adolescent transsexualism.
abstract: This paper describes the treatment of a boy with transsexual behaviour by means of family therapy supplemented by group therapy. It argues that a family systems approach can grasp dimensions of the problems of transsexualism that are missed if an exclusively individual treatment approach is adopted, and concludes that a family systems approach should be part of the assessment and treatment of all children and adolescents presenting with effeminacy or transsexual problems.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005196:Family Therapy; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology