Sex Development 7 Flashcards
Identify the social and medical challenges of caring for individuals with disorders of sexual development.
1
Q
What are the psychosocial aspects regarding disorders of sexual development?
A
- Gender identity
- Gender role
- Gender orientation
- Hopefully gender of rearing = gender identity
2
Q
What are some key points to approaching patients and families with DSD?
A
- social +/- medical emergency
- guilt, abnormal child, cultural attitudes
- “your baby”, “your child” NOT “it”
- want to delay naming
- factual explanation of sexual differentiation
- pictures and diagrams
- show parents specific physical findings
- team approach
- involve parents in decision making
