Describe how a treatment strategy for gender dysphoria would differ for a child versus an adult

What will be an ideal response?


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- children with gender dysphoria may respond better to psychological treatment, particularly behavioral techniques, that reduce cross-gender behaviors and reward same-gender identification.
-adults with gender dysphoria have a less flexible sense of gender orientation than children and generally do not respond as well to behavior therapy
-the primary treatment for adults with gender dysphoria involves sex reassignment surgery

Psychology

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What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

Having a drug with a high receptor affinity suggests that:

a. the drug will strongly activate the receptor. b. the drug will outcompete drugs with lower affinities for the receptor. c. the drug will strongly block the receptor. d. the drug will large value for a dissociation constant.

Psychology

Which of the following forms of memory requires conscious attention for encoding, storage, and retrieval?

A) Episodic memory B) Implicit memory C) Priming memory D) Procedural memory

Psychology

Külpe believed that the study of thinking was ____

a. beyond the reach of experimental psychology b. an appropriate topic for experimental investigation c. best approached through einstellung d. best approached through völkerpsychologie

Psychology