Phenomenology of Gender Dysphoria in Autism

Jan 23, 2023, 01:48 PM

In this ‘Papers Podcast’ episode, we are joined by Dr. Kate Cooper to discuss her JCPP paper ‘Phenomenology of gender dysphoria in autism: a multiperspective qualitative analysis’. Kate is the first author of the paper.

DOI: 10.13056/acamh.22473

For this Papers Podcast Dr. Kate Cooper, lecturer in clinical psychology University of Bath, talks about her paper ‘Phenomenology of gender dysphoria in autism: a multiperspective qualitative analysis’ doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13691, recently published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

There is an overview of the paper, methodology, key findings, and implications for practice.

Discussion points include;

  • What challenges might a person with autism face, as it relates to gender dysphoria, over and above a neurotypical young person with gender dysphoria.
  • The communication difficulties between clinicians and autistic service users for gender dysphoria
  • What clinicians can do differently to improve this
  • What other autism adaptations are recommended for clinical services
  • The significant difference in opinions that clinicians, parents, and autistic young people had and elaborates on the implications of the difference in opinions between these groups
  • Advice for parents or carers, CAMH professionals and policy makers.
In this series, we speak to authors of papers published in one of ACAMH’s three journals. These are The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP); The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal; and JCPP Advances