The present work is aimed at understanding how social environment and interpersonal interactions influence the mental health and well-being of gender-diverse individuals, approaching some of the relevant issues in the field from the perspective of both social and clinical psychology. The first three studies presented in the thesis adopt the perspective of social psychology to investigate the experiences of discrimination faced by transgender individuals in mental health contexts. We will look at the problem from two different viewpoint: the one of psychotherapists and the one of transgender clients that approached mental health services. The first study aims at investigating the role of anti-transgender bias in the psychological assessment of transgender (vs. cisgender) patients in a sample of female sample of licensed psychotherapists. The second study aims at investigating whether microaggressions are perpetrated by psychotherapists when confronted to lesbian or transgender fictitious clients (vs. cisgender heterosexual). The third study assumes the perspective of transgender people accessing mental health contexts. In order to provide an understanding of transgender peoples’ help-seeking experiences, the study aimed to investigate their positive experiences of identity microaffirmations within a therapeutic relationship. The last two studies will be focused on the consequences of minority stress for the mental health and well-being of transgender individuals. The fourth study is inherently clinical and will be focused on the investigation of personality patterns of medicalized transgender men and women, by evaluating both the dimensional personality domains proposed by the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders and the categorical DSM-IV personality disorder (PD) diagnoses. The fifth study will look at the effects of societal gender norms in a different psychological domain, that is sexuality. In particular, the study will focus on sexual
Il presente lavoro di tesi ha lo scopo di comprendere come l'ambiente sociale e le interazioni interpersonali influenzino la salute mentale e il benessere degli individui gender-variant, affrontando alcune delle questioni rilevanti nel campo dal punto di vista della psicologia sociale e clinica. I primi tre studi presentati nella tesi adottano la prospettiva della psicologia sociale per studiare le esperienze di discriminazione affrontate dagli individui transgender in contesti di salute mentale. Esamineremo il problema da due diversi punti di vista: quello degli psicoterapeuti e quello dei clienti transgender che si sono avvicinati ai servizi di salute mentale. Il primo studio mira a studiare il ruolo del pregiudizio anti-transgender nella valutazione psicologica dei pazienti transgender (vs. cisgender) in un campione di campione di psicoterapeute esperte. Il secondo studio è volto a indagare un campione di psicoterapeuti sia microaggressivo nei confronti di clienti lesbiche o transgender (rispetto a una cliente eterosessuale cisgender). Il terzo studio assume la prospettiva delle persone transgender che accedono ai contesti di salute mentale. Al fine di fornire una maggiore comprensione delle esperienze delle persone transgender che accedono a un servizio di psicoterapia, lo studio si propone di indagare le loro esperienze positive di microaffermazione dell’identità all'interno di una relazione terapeutica. Gli ultimi due studi saranno focalizzati sulle conseguenze del minority stress per la salute mentale e il benessere degli individui transgender. Il quarto studio è intrinsecamente clinico e si focalizzerà sull'indagine della personalità di uomini e donne transgender medicalizzati, valutando sia i domini di personalità dimensionali proposti dal Modello Alternativo di Disturbi della personalità sia le diagnosi categoriche del Disturbo di personalità DSM-IV . Il quinto studio esaminerà gli effetti delle norme sociali di genere in un diverso dominio psicologico, cioè la sessualità. In particolare, lo studio si concentrerà sull'immaginario e sulla fantasia sessuale, che sono aspetti chiave della sessualità umana in quanto associati all'eccitazione e alla risposta sessuale.
Transgender Health: A Minority Stress Perspective On The Clinical Work With Transgender Individuals
ANZANI, ANNALISA
2020
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The present work is aimed at understanding how social environment and interpersonal interactions influence the mental health and well-being of gender-diverse individuals, approaching some of the relevant issues in the field from the perspective of both social and clinical psychology. The first three studies presented in the thesis adopt the perspective of social psychology to investigate the experiences of discrimination faced by transgender individuals in mental health contexts. We will look at the problem from two different viewpoint: the one of psychotherapists and the one of transgender clients that approached mental health services. The first study aims at investigating the role of anti-transgender bias in the psychological assessment of transgender (vs. cisgender) patients in a sample of female sample of licensed psychotherapists. The second study aims at investigating whether microaggressions are perpetrated by psychotherapists when confronted to lesbian or transgender fictitious clients (vs. cisgender heterosexual). The third study assumes the perspective of transgender people accessing mental health contexts. In order to provide an understanding of transgender peoples’ help-seeking experiences, the study aimed to investigate their positive experiences of identity microaffirmations within a therapeutic relationship. The last two studies will be focused on the consequences of minority stress for the mental health and well-being of transgender individuals. The fourth study is inherently clinical and will be focused on the investigation of personality patterns of medicalized transgender men and women, by evaluating both the dimensional personality domains proposed by the Alternative Model of Personality Disorders and the categorical DSM-IV personality disorder (PD) diagnoses. The fifth study will look at the effects of societal gender norms in a different psychological domain, that is sexuality. In particular, the study will focus on sexualFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/73401
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