Families in Transition ― Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

Combining developmental psychology, psychoeducation, and systemic therapy, Families in Transition highlights the importance of clinicians’ own social locations and identities. It puts the responsibility on clinicians to challenge their own cisnormativity and blind spots, and to evaluate the ways they can become “gender creative.”

Arlene I. Lev is a social worker, family therapist, educator, and writer whose work addresses the unique therapeutic needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Based in Albany, NY, she is the founder and clinical director of Choices Counseling and Consulting; the director of TIGRIS—The Training Institute for Gender, Relationships, Identity, and Sexuality; a part-time lecturer at the State University of New York at Albany, School of Social Welfare; the project director of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Project (SOGI); and the author of numerous journal articles and two books: The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide and Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, winner of the APA (Division 44) Distinguished Book Award, 2006.

Andrew R. Gottlieb has been a psychotherapist in private practice for thirty years, helping individuals and couples from diverse backgrounds in both short- and long-term therapy in the New York City area. He has authored/edited five other LGBTQ-related books on families and is an editor for the Journal of GLBT Family Studies.