Seeing the child in context: Supporting gender diverse children and their families in multiple ways

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This Special Issue of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry includes a group of papers that originated in the work of the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), which is the nationally designated National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom to work with children and adolescents experiencing significant concern and distress about their gender. This short introduction to those papers aims to set the context and explain why certain areas have been given a focus.

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Gender identity children adolescents treatment GIDS

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Seeing the child in context: Supporting gender diverse children and their families in multiple ways – An introduction to this special edition

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