Social Work Practice with Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth

Jama Shelton, PhD, MSW, associate professor, Silberman School of Social Work; associate director, Silberman Center for Sexuality and Gender; has worked with queer and trans youth for 20 years. Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, LCSW, is associate dean of research and scholarship and Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare, and has been a child welfare practitioner, advocate, educator, and researcher for more than 45 years.

Contributors; About the Editors; Forword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Socio-Structural Context of Trans & Gender Expansive Youth; 2 Cutting the Poisonous Roots: Systems Change; 3 Knowledge for Practice with Trans and Gender Expansive Youth; 4 Social Work Practice with Nonbinary Youth; 5 The Chosen Name Process: Developing Gender Identity & Bolstering Support Networks; 6 Social Work Practice with Trans & Gender Expansive Youth & Their Families; 7 The Affirmative Potential of Sex-Positive Sex Education with Trans & Gender Expansive Youth; 8 Trans & Gender Expansive Youth: Emerging Models of Identity Development; 9 When There Was No Space for Us, We Made a Space: The House and Ballroom Community; 10 Trans Youth Are Our Future: Reflections from ARY on TGE Youth-Led Projects; 11 It’s Like Church Without the Hurt: Trans Youth of Color & The Black Joy Experience; 12 Existing Outside of Gender: Autism & Gender Identity; 13 Mental Health Supports for Trans & Gender Expansive Youth; 14 Trans & Gender Expansive Youth & Fertility; 15 Medical Care for Trans & Gender Expansive Youth; 16 Social Work Practice with Trans & Gender Expansive Youth in Child Welfare Systems; 17 More than a Shelter Bed: Working Towards Housing Justice for TGE YYA Experiencing Homelessness; Glossary; Resources; Index.