DIGITAL COURSE
Collaborative Gender Affirming Care With Families
Helping Families on Gender Journeys: A Developmental Lens
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Many clinicians report struggling with how to approach working with gender-diverse youth and their families, especially when caregivers are struggling to understand or possibly accept their child’s gender diversity. Clinicians also report struggling with how to work with couples or relationships where a partner is on a gender journey. Given the current focus on gender-affirming care and the push to restrict its access in many locations, the expanding restrictions around access to bathrooms, athletics, and safe spaces, as well as the limited number of clinicians who feel competent to work with these clients, it is important that all mental health care providers have a basic understanding of the issues at hand and how to collaboratively work with gender diverse people and their families.
All the data on family support show a profound shift toward positive outcomes when a family is supportive. This is true for both youth and adults. Given the importance of family on the overall mental health of our gender-diverse clients, it is imperative that we include them in our work and that we do so in a supportive and healing way. To do so in a gender-affirming and collaborative way, we must understand the gender journeys that families have to navigate in order to fully support their gender-diverse loved ones, which is key to bridging the divide we often experience when they initially seek our services.
This webinar will help providers who work with gender-diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender-expansive children, adolescents, young adults, and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold.
What we will Cover:
- An overview of Gender Journeys for gender diverse youth and adults
- The 6 phases of the developmental Gender Journey for families
- The unique challenges for parents and partners in the initial phases
- Intersections of gender minority stress
- Tools to address family ruptures.
Learning Objectives:
- List the 6 phases of the family gender journey
- Describe the impact of grief for families on a gender journey
- Identify the impact of both the differences and similarities of family member’s gender journeys as compared to their gender diverse loved ones
- Identify and address the impact of gender minority stress, trauma, and media messages on families
2.0 CE Credit Available ($30 – available in Full Access Plan)
The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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About the Presenter: Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD
Dr. Giammattei has no disclosures.
