Exam 02 2017-11-01 Flashcards
The Live in Your Own Skin Model - explain
(9/20: Ehrensaft)
- Believe children’s gender brains are malleable:
- Encourage children to play with toys gendered to their sex assigned at birth
- Believe parents influence child’s gender dysphoria
- Employs combination of behavior modification, ecological interventions, and family restructuring (to have child “live in their own skin”)
- If at puberty child still expresses gender dysphoria, then they should be supported in transitioning (blockers and hormones)
The Live in Your Own Skin Model - cirtique
(9/20: Ehrensaft)
- BAD: to foster shame, try to alter gender ID/expression
- The World Professional Association for Transgender health (WPATH), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) all have issued statements telling mental health professionals to not use this model.
The Watchful Waiting Model - explain
(9/20: Ehrensaft)
- Relies on “persisters and desisters” of gender dysphoria
- Rationale for waiting (social transition) until adolescence
- 1) should experience natal sex puberty to decide if they’re “really” trans
- 2) transitioning young could create “cognitive constriction”
- 3) socially transitioning young could prevent them from having a “realistic understanding” of penis=boy, vagina=girl
The Watchful Waiting Model - critque
(9/20: Ehrensaft)
- Used worldwide, but a cautious and careful model
- Many contemporary families in the Netherlands don’t want to have their children wait for clinical approval for their children to socially transition
- Not that they don’t value clinicians, but because there is evidence that young children will thrive when they can live in their authentic gender
The Gender Affirmative Model - explain
(9/20: Ehrensaft)
- Basic premise of gender affirmative model: (this is a direct quote)
• Gender variations are not disorders.
• Gender presentations are diverse and varied across cultures, requiring cultural sensitivity.
• Gender involves an interweaving, over time, of biology; development and socialization; and culture and context.
• Gender may be fluid; it is not always binary.
• If present, individual psychological/psychiatric problems are more often than not secondary to negative interpersonal and cultural reactions to a child.
• Gender pathology lies more in the culture than in the child
The Gender Affirmative Model - critique
(9/20: Ehrensaft)
- Critiqued because people don’t trust kids to “reliably communicate,” and puts too much weight into child self-reporting
- But parent(s), mental, and medical professionals assist in informed determinations and pathways for treatment
The Gender Affirmative Model - therapeutic goals
(9/20: Ehrensaft) (a direct quote) • Facilitating an authentic gender self • Alleviating gender stress or distress • Building gender resilience • Securing social supports
Transgender
Sex assigned at birth and gender identity don’t match
Cisgender
Sex assigned at birth and gender identity do match
Gender non-conforming, gender non-binary
- Not male, female, or gendered (gender identity)
- OR
- Gender identity male/female, but gender expression could be neither masculine or feminine
Social transition
Changing name, gender pronouns, clothing, hairstyle
Physical or medical transition
Receiving hormone therapy (hormone blockers, testosterone, estrogen)
Etiology of sexual orientation: Genetics
(9/25) R & S)
Sexual orientation could be somewhat genetic: x chromosome-linked gene, hair whorl and handedness, 2D:4D ratio (gay)
Etiology of sexual orientation: Environment
(9/25) R & S)
- Cultural and biological
- Atypical sex hormones during fetal development, hormone pills (progesterone), cultural norms, fraternal birth order (more older brothers a boy has=greater chance of being gay)
Components of sexual orientation
(9/25) R & S)
- Attraction
- Identity
- Behavior
Sexual Attraction
(9/25) R & S)
- Component of sexual orientation
- Desires, sexual fantasies, arousal (and how much)
- Different categorization (genitals, gender identity, “same-gender-to-other-gender spectrum”)
Sexual Identity
(9/25) R & S)
- Component of sexual orientation
- EX: “lesbian,” “biesxual,” “asexual”
- Most culturally defined (EX from reading: younger men: sex with men, later with women, etc.)
Sexual Behavior
(9/25) R & S)
- Component of sexual orientation
- Actions, don’t always line up with attraction and/or identity
- EX: “performative bisexuality” engaging in bisexual behaviors for other people, not your own pleasure. (girls smooching other girls for guy’s pleasure, but not attracted to each other)
Use of essentialism in political and legal situations
(9/25) R & S)
- Genetic research
- Biological determinism
Genetic research
(9/25) R & S)
Use of essentialism in political and legal situations
- Genetic research=essentialist approach
- Believe sexual orientation is an inherently biological difference
Biological determinism
(9/25) R & S)
Use of essentialism in political and legal situations
- Used argument that women are different in ___ way, but arguments for LGBT people in this way is invalid when preventing rights/accessibility (sexuality is fluid)
Masturbation in infancy
(9/27: L & P)
- Infants have physiological sexual responses
- (but not much masturbation because of motor abilities- usually accidental)
Masturbation in childhood
(9/27: L & P)
- 2-9 years old often touch their genitals (better motor skills), sexual interest masturbation more prevalent
- Earlier conversations with caregivers will lead to more conversations later
- Parent ignoring child’s arousal could intensify sexual arousal and/or lead to shame/guilt
Masturbation in adolescence
(9/27: L & P)
- masturbation is common and healthy, more research than childhood masturbation
Sexual encounters and sex play before puberty
(9/27: L & P)
Retrospective research on children’s sexual behavior with other children
– High percentage report playing sexual game in childhood (high percentage of games involved touching genitals)
- - - Cross-sex encounters were more likely to involve coercion/persuasion
– Environment/atmosphere had greatest influence on overall response, as opposed to extent of sexual experience
Contemporary research conclusions about Freud’s latency period
(9/27: L & P)
- Part of Freud’s psychosexual theory: sex drives decrease between 6-12
- Researchers question validity: researchers say sexual drives don’t cease to exist, they just become hidden from peers and parents
Sex positive approaches to adolescent sexuality
(10/2: Harden) (Friday Night Lights)
- Need to frame adolescent consensual sexual activity as developmentally normative and potentially healthy
- Sex positive approach: consent, health, agency, validates it is okay, validates sexual minority experiences
- Enforcing myth that perspective of adolescent sexuality is a “risk” presumes best alternative is abstinence and ignorance
- Controversy of non-normative behavior and interests being deviant
- Actually normal developmental behavior
- Problematic to label children as innocent and limit their sexual expression
Sexting
(10/2: Myth 48, 276)
- Sexting does not lead to more sex
- Usually people have sexual debut, then sexting
- Sexting is not wide-spread (not “sweeping phenomenon”)
- Sexting is a marker for other risky sexual behaviors
- If involves coercion, tends to have negative impact
- Some legal issues (when >18), few psychological impacts
Psychological experiences of LGBTQ adolescents
(10/4: TYWTAL)
- Intersections between sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and religion
- Risk and protective factors
Psychological experiences of LGBTQ adolescents: Intersections between sexual orientation, gender identity, race, and religion
Minority Stress Theory
- How identities intersecting may create more marginalized experiences
- chronic stress from stigmatized identities multiplying with multiple identities: discrimination, isolation, victimization, negative social attitudes
Psychological experiences of LGBTQ adolescents: Risk and protective factors
(10/4: Martos, et al., R & F)
- Youth coming out younger ages (during human development stages) when characterized by strong peer influence and victimization
- Risk: family conflict/rejection, child maltreatment, depression (suicide), lack of institutionalized protections, biased-based bullying
- Protective: school policies/programs, anti-discrimination laws, family/peer acceptance/support, GSAs, LGBT inclusive curricula, ability to come out
Psychological experiences of LGBTQ adolescents: Risk factors
(10/4: Martos, et al., R & F)
- Risk: family conflict/rejection, child maltreatment, depression (suicide), lack of institutionalized protections, biased-based bullying
Psychological experiences of LGBTQ adolescents: Protective factors
(10/4: Martos, et al., R & F)
- Protective: school policies/programs, anti-discrimination laws, family/peer acceptance/support, GSAs, LGBT inclusive curricula, ability to come out
Minority Stress Theory
(Psychological experiences of LGBTQ adolescents: Intersections between sexual identities)
- How identities intersecting may create more marginalized experiences
- chronic stress from stigmatized identities multiplying with multiple identities: discrimination, isolation, victimization, negative social attitudes
Psychology of sexual debut
(9/9)
- As compared to virginity: sex positive, not just penile-vaginal intercourse
- (EX from class: kissing and touching breasts defined as sex for many adolescents)
Psychology of virginity
- One time event
- Penile-vaginal intercourse [between cis-straight people]
Carpenter’s ways of framing virginity
(10/9: Myth 19, 110)
- 1 - gift
- 2 - process
- 3 - stigma
Carpenter’s ways of framing virginity: Gift
(10/9: Myth 19, 110)
- usually woman “giving” virginity, man (someone “special”) taking; has value, reciprocate gift (woman giving, man giving commitment)