Social Services With Transgendered Youth [Paperback]

Gerald P Mallon (Editor), Gerald P. Mallon (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 25, 2000 | ISBN-10: 156023136X | ISBN-13: 978-1560231363

Through personal narratives and case studies, Social Services with Transgendered Youth explores the childhood and adolescent experiences of transgendered persons. Addressing the differences between male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM) individuals and identifying the specific challenges of transgendered persons from diverse races, cultures, and religious backgrounds, this compelling book offers suggestions that will help social workers and the youths’families learn more about the reality of transgendered persons’lives.

Containing invaluable information on a topic that is not widely discussed or written about, Social Services with Transgendered Youth discredits negative stereotypes surrounding these youths and offers you insight into their experiences. Additionally, these articles openly address questions that practitioners may have about gender identity as well as offer concrete and practical recommendations about competent practice with this population.

This intelligent book will show you how to have a positive effect on the lives of these youth. Some of the areas discussed include:

• individual practice with a transgendered child
• group work practice with transgendered adolescents
• family-centered practice with the families of transgendered persons
• internal and external stress factors for the transgendered youth

Moving and insightful, this guide brings to light many facts that have long been overlooked by parents and social service professionals. Social Services with Transgendered Youth offers you effective strategies to work more effectively with this marginalized and underserved population.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (May 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156023136X
• ISBN-13: 978-1560231363
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,249,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gerald P. Mallon, DSW, is the Julia Lathrop Professor of Child Welfare and Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at the Hunter College Social Work in New York City.

For more than 36 years, Dr. Mallon has been a child welfare practitioner, advocate, educator, and researcher. More than 25 years ago Dr. Mallon started the Green Chimneys program for LGBTQ youth, the first mainstream child welfare agency in the country to care for these youth.

Dr. Mallon is the Senior Editor of the professional journal, Child Welfare and the author or editor of more than twenty-one books. His most recent publication with Peg Hess is Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century, to be published by Columbia University Press in 2012.


Dr. Mallon has lectured and worked extensively throughout the United States, and internationally in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Indonesia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Mallon earned his doctorate in Social Welfare from the City University of New York at Hunter College and holds an MSW from Fordham University and a BSW from Dominican College, and he puts his money where is mouth is as he has been a foster parent and is an adoptive parent.

He lives in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking insight into the transgender experience, June 6, 2000

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This review is from: Social Services With Transgendered Youth (Paperback)

Mr. Mallon once again shows his special ability to look into the souls of others and grasp their experience. Further, he includes the thoughts and perspectives of articulate trangendered people who have a singular ability to help us understand. I have been working to educate myself to better serve my transgendered clients. This publication helped me immensely in my journey towards that goal.