Gender- en seksuele diversiteit
For many young people, puberty, falling in love, relationships and sexuality are important topics.
We also see more and more young people who have questions about their gender identity. Clients often struggle with feelings of rejection, loneliness and anxiety. There may also be issues of bullying, trauma, gloom, low self-esteem, self-mutilation, stress about the body, eating disorder, problems with learning and concentrating, physical problems, self-neglect, stress in social contacts and relationships, adjustment, dissociation, insecurity at home and/or outside the home, or suicidal manifestations. Long-term support is often necessary.
Treatment from the Kinderpraktijk will focus on psycho education for the child, combined with cognitive behavioral therapy. Treatment will focus on reducing the discomfort surrounding gender incongruent feelings, providing help for additional issues and improving the client's well-being.
In addition, psycho education for parents (and possibly siblings) will be addressed. The counseling of children and parents is mainly focused on how to deal with uncertainty, how to deal with current desires of, for example, gender expression (choice of clothing, name, etc.). The guidance is always aimed at ensuring that the child can explore freely, that the self-image is strengthened and that in the process no developmental paths are yet closed off for the future.
The child should be able to be who he or she is in a free environment but without this laying down choices for the future (you become male or female and get treatment).
At the Kinderpraktijk we do not perform diagnostic tests specifically focused on gender incongruence. If this appears to be necessary then a referral to specialist care is made. Nevertheless, further imaging focused on gender development can take place.
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