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Transgender Child

Online Story

April 15, 2016

When Your Child Tells You They Are Trans: A Parent's Journey

What role should therapists play?

Jean Malpas

As a therapist, how do you work with conservative parents struggling to parent their trans child? Psychotherapist Jean Malpas shares three keys to acceptance. Read More
Transgender Child

Magazine Article

March 8, 2016

The Transgender Journey

What Role Should Therapists Play?

Jean Malpas

Parents typically view their children in the largely gendered terms society lays out for them. Rearranging that internal mind map requires tremendous effort and adjustment. Given the alarming suicide rates for transgender children, it can also be a matter of life and death. Read More
Questions of Gender

Magazine Article - Case Study

September 11, 2014

Questions of Gender

A therapist struggles with the clinical choices he’s made

David Treadway & Jean Malpas

A therapist takes an unflinching look at a puzzling case that spanned 14 years, wondering if he made a wrong turn. Read More

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Jean Malpas

Jean Malpas

Jean Malpas, LMFT, LMHC, is the director of the Gender & Family Project and director of international training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. He maintains a private practice in New York City. Visit his website.