Liao, L-M;
Simmonds, M;
(2014)
A values-driven and evidence-based health care psychology for diverse sex development.
Psychology and Sexuality
, 5
(1)
83 - 101.
10.1080/19419899.2013.831217.
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Abstract
The integration of psychology into multidisciplinary care for people affected by 'disorders of sex development' is acknowledged in most recent care standard documents. However, psychological evidence that can inform service development is currently insubstantial for specific reasons, some of which are outlined in this article. We argue for psychological activities and their prioritisation to be equally driven by the professional values embedded in clinical psychology and to seek user input in key activities. These values include critical engagement with research literature, theoretically informed question and problem formulation, development of interventions to boost health and well-being, honouring of personal agency, equality and diversity, team development facilitation, psychological education and training for non-psychologists, audit and research that can benefit patients and contribution to social change. We outline target areas that reflect these values and, where possible, draw on empirical evidence developed in diverse sex development (DSD) and other clinical contexts to support our recommendations.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A values-driven and evidence-based health care psychology for diverse sex development |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19419899.2013.831217 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2013.831217 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1461157 |
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