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  • Chapter 10 - Caretakers’ Grief and Growth

  • from Section 4 - Working Psychologically
  • Lih-Mei Liao
  • Book:
    Variations in Sex Development
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 166-187

  • Summary

    In Chapter 10, the author suggests immense possibilities for psychological care providers (PCPs) to contribute to compassionate care following the birth of a child with variations (and in the antenatal period). Psychosocial research and first-person accounts inform us of caretakers’ brokenness, which is often responded to by “normalizing” the child. Here, the author suggests that PCPs work with caretakers in a grief-informed way. Grief is a language that everyone understands and compels services to privilege psychological safety as a first care principle. The practice vignette is built around an expectant mother in difficult circumstances with an unborn child with TS. However, the concept of grief is also relevant for older children and adolescents who are newly diagnosed. Indeed processing loss is integral to adjustment, whereby taken-for-granted ideas of selfhood give way to new identities.