A transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) teen, may experience unique challenges with identity and interpersonal relationships.
In addition to experiencing common teen challenges such as body changes and peer pressure, they may be wondering how to express their unique identity to others.
The Gender Quest Workbook incorporates skills, exercises, and activities from evidence-based therapies—such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—to help address the broad range of struggles a teen may encounter related to gender identity, such as anxiety, isolation, fear, and even depression.
The Gender Quest Workbook also features a brief downloadable guide for clinicians that explains ways professionals can better serve gender-expansive youth. The guide will address ways to help youth working with gender identity build resilience against gender minority stress, among other topics. The book also includes chapters on sex and dating, balancing multiple identities, and how to deal with stressful challenges when they arise.
This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will help teens navigate their gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.
“The Gender Quest Workbook is an excellent resource for any young person who would like to explore gender. The authors really cover all the bases and bring to life the process by which a person can feel supported in bringing self-determination and creativity to expressing their gender. The language used is clear and user-friendly. I would absolutely recommend this to my clients. Testa, Coolhart, and Peta make excellent tour guides through this journey!”
—Sand Chang, PhD, clinical psychologist and gender specialist in the Kaiser Permanente Multi-Specialty Transitions Department, chair of the American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity (CSOGD), and coauthor of the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People
“This workbook is an important resource for the transgender community. I wish I’d had something like it when I was coming out to myself.”
—Greta Gustava Martela, cofounder and executive director of Trans Lifeline, the first national crisis line for transgender people
“The Gender Quest Workbook is a wonderful new resource for exploring the evolving landscape of gender. Providing a road map for young people of any gender to examine their own experiences and understanding of this core aspect of self, this important tool also affirms the authenticity of individuals who find themselves in the less crowded terrain somewhere along the gender spectrum. Whether cisgender or gender expansive, more and more young people are personalizing their gender stories. The Gender Quest Workbook will play a critical role in shaping the narratives they create.”
—Joel Baum, MS, senior director of professional development and family services at Gender Spectrum, and founding member and director of education and advocacy at the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at the University of California, San Francisco
