Celebrating the upcoming release of a new edition of Transgender Emergence!
A revised and updated version of the groundbreaking book Transgender Emergence is coming soon.
Transgender Emergence has provided thousands of mental health clinicians with detailed guidance for working with transgender individuals and families for over two decades. As a social worker, family therapist, and sex therapy supervisor, author Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CSTS, now brings nearly 40 years of experience working with transgender and nonbinary individuals and their families to the revision of this text.
The original text of Transgender Emergence grew out of Lev’s extensive experience working with transgender clients and her awareness of the lack of comprehensive resources for therapists serving this population. The book was groundbreaking as the first clinical (social work) book to challenge the pathologization of transgender identities and to suggest a trans affirmative approach to working with trans people and their families. The first edition won the APA Division 44 Distinguished Book Award and was named a “Title of Exceptional Merit” by the Society for Sex Therapy and Research.
Two decades after the original publication, there have been many strides forward in developing a trans-affirmative approach to mental health care and support for trans/nonbinary people in their health care needs. In recent years, there also have been reactionary strides backward which have created new challenges and threats for trans individuals and their loved ones. The new, revised edition of Transgender Emergence will offer updated information and guidelines for clinicians working with these populations in these troubled times.
About the author
Arlene Istar Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC – CSTS, is a social worker, family therapist, educator, activist, international trainer, and professor at multiple colleges, including the University at Albany School of Social Welfare. She is the Founder and Clinical Director of Choices Counseling & Consulting and of TIGRIS: The Training Institute for Gender, Relationships, Identity, and Sexuality. She is also the Founder of PRISM, Inc., which provides low-cost therapy to LGBTQ individuals, in Albany, New York. She is an approved mentor with the Global Education Initiative (GEI) for applicants seeking World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) certification, as well as a certified sex therapist with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). In addition to Transgender Emergence, she is the author of The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide and Families in Transition: Parent Perspectives on Raising Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults (with Andrew Gottlieb, Ed.).
Please email Arlene Istar Lev (Ari@choicesconsulting.com) with any questions.
Updated information:
- working with transgender and nonbinary adults
- working with gender expansive children and youth
- working with genderqueer and intersex people
- working with families – partners, spouses, children, and parents
- the evolution of the language of gender
- the history of diagnoses and pathologization
- feminist, systemic, collaborative, empowerment based affirmative care