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ArticleChild and adolescent psychiatry and mental health2026

Gender-affirming psychiatry: a minority stress and phenomenological framework for child and adolescent mental health.

Jamie D Agapoff, E Diane Stapleton, Gerrit van Schalkwyk

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Article in Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jamie D AgapoffDepartment of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 1356 Lusitana St. 4th Fl., Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA. jra2129@hawaii.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6026-6463
E Diane StapletonUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Gerrit van SchalkwykYale University, New Haven, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This perspective article introduces Gender Affirming Psychiatry (GAP), a conceptual framework that integrates queer phenomenology, the gender minority stress model, and gender-affirming care to guide psychiatric assessment, formulation, and treatment of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth. This approach acknowledges the cultural and institutional structures that negatively impact the mental health of gender diverse youth, while leveraging resilience, community connection, and support structures that are known to improve mental health outcomes. In this time of greater awareness and increased scrutiny, GAP is a practical, person-centered approach that is clinically sound and ethically grounded.

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PMCPMC13453086

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