Nursing Care Offered to A Teenager at Risk of Gender Dysphoria and Suicide: A Community Mental Health and Public Health Nursing Approach

Abstract

Young people who are gender dysphoria are often at risk for certain psychosocial problems as well as being victims of discrimination and stigmatization. Such problems include issues such as social isolation, social withdrawal, loneliness, dropping out of school, tendency to crime, substance abuse, and being subject to violence. It is thought that all these problems are especially important in personal and social lives of young people living in societies where traditional gender roles have been conserved. In this study, it was aimed to offer holistic nursing care interventions to a 17-year-old male person who stated that he had wanted to commit suicide and been subject to homophobic attitudes because of the confusion about his gender.