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Volume 6 Journal of Child & Adolescent Behavior
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October 01-02, 2018 Osaka, Japan
30th World
Psychiatrists and Psychologists Meet
World Psychiatrists 2018
October 01-02, 2018
Transgender coming out in adolescence: Co-innovating therapeutical setting
Nowadays, the concept of transsexualism has evolved to the concept of transidentity while the binarity of gender has been
replaced by gender creativity and fluidity. In a context of contemporary digital revolution, the number of transgender
coming-outs in adolescence has grown significatively.Three years ago, we created a clinical center for adolescents with gender
dysphoria. We provide psychopathological evaluation and care as well as access to medical Standard of Care for transgender
youth. Living his transidentity at adolescence appears to be an individual and self-created process co-occuring with the
developmental one. Furthermore, as coming-outs are challenging parentality in a new way, innovating therapeutical settings
are needed. From watchful waiting to supporting social transition (including use of new name and prounom, changes in
gender role, changes in physical appearance) and access to hormonotherapy, the transgender process in adolescence invites
the therapist to co-create and therapeutical setting with the adolescent and his/her parents. We will propose to discuss the
role of narrativity in the transgender coming-out process. Supporting narrative skills may be an efficient therapeutic tool that
helps the construction of a narrative identity, as defined by the philosopher Paul Ricoeur and allows to take into account the
importance of cultural and transgenerational considerations.
Biography
Adrian Valerie is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working at Bordeaux University Hospital in the Reference Center for Transgender Youth and Reference
Center for Adolescence Psychopathology directed by Professor Bouvard. She is a Member of the French Association of Clinical Research for Adolescence
(ARCAD), Member of the French Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (SFPEADA), Member of the Societe Medico-Psychologique (SMP) and Reviewer
for L’Encephale.
Adrian Valerie
Bordeaux University Hospital, France
Adrian Valerie, J Child Adolesc Behav 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494-C1-004