Adolescent identity: The importance of the social history

This is a unique case of a patient with trichotillomania, depression, and anxiety for 2 years, serving as coping strategies for underlying gender dysphoria. To our knowledge, a case of a patient presenting with this unique constellation of comorbid conditions has not previously been reported. This c...

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Autores principales: Silverstein, Laura, Zander, Emily, Middleman, Amy B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453439/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20952980
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description This is a unique case of a patient with trichotillomania, depression, and anxiety for 2 years, serving as coping strategies for underlying gender dysphoria. To our knowledge, a case of a patient presenting with this unique constellation of comorbid conditions has not previously been reported. This case stresses the importance of providers obtaining a full social history consistently and repeatedly while providing a nonjudgmental environment for patients to disclose sensitive and potentially fluid information related to gender identity and sexuality.
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spelling pubmed-74534392020-09-11 Adolescent identity: The importance of the social history Silverstein, Laura Zander, Emily Middleman, Amy B SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report This is a unique case of a patient with trichotillomania, depression, and anxiety for 2 years, serving as coping strategies for underlying gender dysphoria. To our knowledge, a case of a patient presenting with this unique constellation of comorbid conditions has not previously been reported. This case stresses the importance of providers obtaining a full social history consistently and repeatedly while providing a nonjudgmental environment for patients to disclose sensitive and potentially fluid information related to gender identity and sexuality. SAGE Publications 2020-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7453439/ /pubmed/32922796 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20952980 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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