Phenomenology of Gender Dysphoria in Autism

Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

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.