Family Empowerment and Supportive Group in Handling Sexual and Gender Identity Disorder

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10.2991/nfe-16.2017.44How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Family empowerment, supportive group, sexual disorder and gender identity

Abstract

The phenomenon of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorder familiarly known as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) nowadays has become a very hot issue. People who are in favor of or against of it come up with their convincing arguments. Above all, providing proper help for those who are suffering from this disorder is much more urgent considering that most of the sufferers are the young people who are supposed to be the nation's future generation. Being exposed to such intense resistance including that of self, family and environment may bring about the sufferer's declining quality of life such as self-esteem problem, self-isolation, and even worse, severe psychological problem like a spur to commit suicide. Family empowerment through the optimization of five family tasks is very helpful for the family members. Continuous support from groups of caring individuals can gradually resolve the problem wisely and comprehensively.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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