 Lauren HickmanClincial Intern Nova Mental Health Services is a queer-affirming clinic. Being up to date on current policies impacting the populations we serve is necessary. If we fail to keep up with criteria, changes in policy, and trends, we are failing to support our clients and maintain professional integrity.
There are currently hundreds of anti-trans bills, legislation that does not seek to understand but to control and regulate the bodies of others. The Informed Consent Model is one where patients can assess what is best for them within the constructs of a regulated system. Those regulations have existed since gender-affirming care became more available, starting in the 1970s with progressive physician, Harry Benjamin. He drafted the original standards of care for trans clients and those seeking medical intervention for HBIGDA (1979) the predecessor of WPATH - the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
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 Lauren K. Hickman, 2023Clinical Intern at Nova MHS The term neurodiversity was coined in 1998 by Judy Singer. At the time she was an Australian sociology student, a mother to and a daughter of neurodivergent individuals. The revolutionary recognition that everyone’s brain develops uniquely has shifted the diagnostic narrative. No two brains, just as no two fingerprints, are alike.
As autism diagnosis has increased since the 1980s, there are heated debates about which came first: is autism increasing? or do we have better diagnostic criteria to recognize autism sooner? |
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