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Making SENSe of sex development, diversity, and psycho-social well-being

Experiencing normalizing interventions

What is it like to go through normalizing medical interventions?

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Making SENSe of normalizing interventions

What kinds of medical interventions are expected to have psycho-social effects?

Making SENSe of medical information

How could health professionals help parents, children, and young people make sense of intersex or diverse sex development?

Young people making SENSe of diagnosis and treatment

When a young person is told that their sex development is not typtical, what happens next?

Involving young people in conversations about health care

What happens when children and young people are not involved in decisions about their health care?

Parents making SENSe of diagnosis and treatment

What kinds of knowledge to parents need?

Making SENSe of non-essential interventions

It may seen common sense to think that helping a child aspire to social norms might promote their psycho-social well-being, but how else might we approach this?

The psychologist's role in the multidisciplinary team (MDT)

What are the challenges of integrating psycho-social and medical perspectives?

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