Female sex‐role deviance: Early identification and developmental intervention1
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
- Vol. 9 (3) , 199-203
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15374418009532988
Abstract
Clinical childpsychologistsshouldadvocate the use of early developmental intervention techniques for female childhood gender disturbances. A thorough psychodiagnostic assessment of the individual girl is necessary to differentiate the short‐term tomboyism phase of normal development from chronic sexual identity disturbance. Early identification and therapeutic intervention for diagnosed cases of female childhood gender disturbance constitutes (a) assistance for current psychological disturbance and (b) an appropriate professional response to parental request, as well as a clinical strategy for (c) decreasing the probability of adulthood sexual deviance and (d) thereby preventing the associated secondary adulthood psychopathology.Keywords
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