| The choice and practice of transgender group diversified behavior has been criticized as it challenges the traditional concept of gender identity and acceptance of the entire community. In this process, many transgender face mental confusion and pressure from everyday life and as a result, some of them would choose to go to the hospital or psychological counseling agencies to seek for the psychological help. The knowledge education and training practice related to the sexual minorities of consultants affect their attitudes towards transgender visitors. Meanwhile, this attitude has impact on the consulting orientation of counselors leading producing different effects on consulting visitors. This essay classifies and integrates the aspects of transgender counseling visitors’ affirmative counseling methods, techniques, knowledge base, support system, etc. through an overview and analysis of a large number of Western transgender counseling literatures with the main line of transgender affirmative consulting. At the same time, it uses the questionnaire on80transgender to conduct a survey. Besides, the author has done qualitative interviews with four transgender taking advantage of qualitative research method with the purpose of exploring the current situation and problems need to solve of transgender consulting under the circumstance of Chinese context. This research enriches and develops consulting concepts and practice approaches of affirmative psychological counseling. Since nowadays there is few study of transgender groups so that counselors in China can learn from and apply the theory and method in this study when facing transgender counseling visitors. |
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