Transgender Adolescent Suicide Behavior

Adolescent suicide and suicidal behavior.

This review examines the descriptive epidemiology, and risk and protective factors for youth suicide and suicidal behavior. A model of youth suicidal behavior is articulated, whereby suicidal behavior ensues as a result of an interaction of socio-cultural, developmental, psychiatric, psychological, and family-environmental factors. On the basis of this review, clinical and public health approac...

Management of the transgender adolescent.

Transgender individuals are people whose self-identification as male, female, both, or neither (gender identity) does not match their assigned gender (identification by others as male or female based on natal sex). The phenomenon of transgender is uncommon, but as more media attention is directed toward the subject, more adolescents and young adults are "coming out" at an earlier age. Transgend...

Care of a Transgender Adolescent.

A 19-year-old patient presented to my clinic with a request for cross-sex hormone therapy. Assigned at birth as female, my patient began a masculinizing gender transition during early adolescence. His parents were reportedly supportive, but bullying in high school led to depression, substance use, and, ultimately, bouts of homelessness. He reported using unregulated cross-sex hormones during in...

Adolescent suicide and attempted suicide.

Postvention in Adolescent Suicide