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Gender Affirming Care in Children and Adolescents: A Primer

September 18, 2023

Child and adolescent psychiatrists are seeing increasing numbers of transgender and gender-diverse children and teens. This podcast will help clinicians understand the basics of gender-affirming care (GAC) as they work with families around issues of gender dysphoria.

Expert Q&A

Talking With the Family About Gender Dysphoria

August 1, 2023

Peter T. Daniolos, MD, DFAACAP.

Peter T. Daniolos, MD, DFAACAP.

Faculty member, Harvard Medical School; child and adolescent psychiatrist, Cambridge Health Alliance/Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA; clinical professor, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.

Dr. Daniolos has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

How can we support families of kids and teens with gender dysphoria? Dr. Peter Daniolos at Harvard Medical School offers practical examples of the lived experiences of gender diverse kids and teens and then helps us know how to talk with family members to help them understand and support their children.

Clinical Update

Gender Affirming Care in Children and Adolescents: A Primer

August 1, 2023

Joshua Feder, MD

Joshua Feder, MD. Editor in Chief of The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report.

Dr. Feder has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

What exactly is gender affirming care? What approaches are used at different stages of development? You need to know the medical and social aspects of GAC. In this article we give you the basics on GAC including social transition, hormone replacement therapy, and gender confirming surgery, stratified by developmental stages.

Sex-Based Treatment of Schizophrenia

July 14, 2021

Jayashri Kulkarni, MBBS, PhD, FAHMS

Jayashri Kulkarni, MBBS, PhD, FAHMS

Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University.Director, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Center, Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Kulkarni has disclosed no relevant financial or other interest in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

We can use our knowledge of gender differences in schizophrenia, argues Dr. Kulkarni, to inform and broaden our interventions for female patients.

Mood and Menopause

October 6, 2020

Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD

Ruta Nonacs, MD, PhD
Ruta Nonacs practices psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program. She has published original research on peripartum mood disorders and is the author of A Deeper Shade of Blue: A Woman’s Guide to Recognizing and Treating Depression in Her Childbearing Years (Simon & Schuster). Dr. Nonacs has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Ruta Nonacs names the antidepressants that work best for menopausal depression and when to move to hormonal therapies. And for adolescents and young adults, she tells us which birth control pills are least likely to worsen mood.

EXPERT Q&A

Communicating With Patients About Gender

August 5, 2020

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH

Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH

Director, National LGBT Health Education Center at The Fenway Institute; Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Dr. Keuroghlian has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

What are the risks for depression and suicide with transgender patients and how can we provide the best care for them? Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, answers that question and more.