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Digital Seminar

Transgender and Non-Binary Youth: Advanced Practice Gender-Affirming Interventions to Help Clients Live an Authentic Life


Speaker:
Susan Radzilowski, LMSW-C, ACSW
Duration:
6 Hours 20 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Feb 13, 2024
Product Code:
POS058590
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

Our transgender and non-binary youth are being hurt by overt discrimination, microaggressions, and health disparities. It’s a heartbreaking reality—society attacks them for just trying to be themselves.

If you’re not already seeing trans and non-binary young clients facing mental health issues, you will. Statistics show this is a growing population, with increasing cases of trauma, shame, fear, depression, and suicidal ideation. Your ability to provide gender-affirming mental health care could be lifesaving.

It’s critical that you’re prepared. An LGBTQ-friendly practice is not the same as one that is LGBTQ-informed. It’s time to become an ally.

This training is your chance to de-pathologize treatment and get the tools you need to support trans and nonbinary kids and teens. Susan Radzilowski, MSW, LMSW, ACSW, is a therapist, advocate, and ally whose decades of experience as a practicing clinician, along with her personal experience as a mother of a transgender child, make her uniquely qualified to teach you about working with trans and non-binary young clients.

From learning safe language, knowing the fine-points of assessment, gaining knowledge about hormones, navigating transitions, managing stigma, and beyond –you’ll not only understand these young people, but you’ll be able to truly advocate for them!

Purchase this seminar and you’ll learn:

  • Tangible ways to create a welcoming clinical space
  • Interview strategies and questions for youth and parents
  • Essential strategies for support through transitions
  • Child-specific gender support plans
  • Guidance and planning recommendations for parents
  • How to reconcile parental disagreements related to youth’s transition

It’s time to strengthen your practice with a modern skill set for helping transgender and non-binary youth. Don’t miss your opportunity to strengthen your work with young clients, purchase now!

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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

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This self-study course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.



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Susan Radzilowski, LMSW-C, ACSW, has practiced in mental health and educational environments for over 30 years. Susan holds a certificate in gender identity and clinical concerns. Susan was the founding co-chair of GLSEN SE Michigan and is a past member of the GLSEN National Advisory Committee. She has been a member of the NASW-Michigan Chapter Ethics Committee since 2010. Susan has published several articles on clinical and ethical issues of providing social work services to the transgender youth. Susan has a private practice in Michigan and is a part time faculty in the School of Social Work at The University of Michigan and at Wayne State University. She consults and trains on issues related to working with transgender youth for the Michigan Dept of Health and Human Services, the NASW, Michigan State University, Michigan Medicine, Wayne, The University of Michigan and with local school districts. Susan is the parent of a transgender adult who came out in 2005, at age 15. Her experience as a parent of a trans youth inspired her to shift her professional focus to working with transgender youth and facilities and training professionals to improve access to competent, compassionate care.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Susan Radzilowski maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan School of Social Work, and the Wayne State University School of Social Work. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and consulting fee from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Susan Radzilowski serves on the NASW Michigan Chapter Ethics Committee (CEC).


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Objectives

  1. Practice essential vocabulary and articulate language that is nonjudgmental and affirming while avoiding hurtful and/or outdated terminology and expressions.
  2. Analyze the impact of transphobia, minority stress, and gender dysphoria on mental health outcomes.
  3. Integrate evidence-based protective factors (e.g., family support, affirming school environments, peer and community connection, access to gender-affirming care) into clinical formulation and treatment planning.
  4. Appraise the impact of psychosocial, familial, and systemic risk factors on mental health, educational functioning, and overall well-being.
  5. Choose individual and family-based counselling strategies to address caregiver behaviors and viewpoints.
  6. Utilize evidence-informed parent consultation strategies, including structured documentation practices (e.g., development of a “Safe Folder”).

Outline

Beyond Welcoming: Creating Space for Gender Expansiveness
  • Accurate, affirming language – how, when, and why it’s used
  • Transphobia – it’s impact on sense of self
  • Tangible ways to create a welcoming clinical space
  • How heteronormality has influenced “Gender Dysphoria”
  • Gender identity versus gender expression
Judgement Free Zone: Clinical Assessment and Screening
  • Five keys to assessing gender identity
  • Interview strategies and questions for children and parents
  • Limitations of DSM-5™ Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis
  • Transphobia - impact of external and internalized
  • Increase protective factors to decrease vulnerability
  • Discern for comorbidities eating disorders, selfharm, suicidality
Essential Strategies for Support Through Transitions
  • Prepare for transitions – creating support across domains
  • Unique trajectory of prepubescent clients
  • Manage social transition at home, school and in the community
  • Discuss hormone blockers - the importance of psychoeducation for parents
  • Cross-sex hormones and surgery – informed consent & letter writing
  • Support name changes and gender markers
Developing Child-Specific Gender Support Plans for All Settings
  • Evidence-based techniques to alleviate gender dysphoria
  • Implement a child-specific gender support plan
  • Tools to reduce dysphoria and improve wellness
  • Step-by-step suicide assessment with youth
  • Holistic consultation with a diverse care team
  • Structing an effective group session
In-depth Collaboration with Parents: Do’s, Don’t, & Nuance
  • Build rapport with challenging parental qualities or viewpoints
  • Manage parental grief over child’s transitions
  • How and when to refer parents for mental health support
  • Address religious concerns and barriers
  • Identify harmful and helpful parent behaviors
  • Provide coaching and psychoeducation with ease
Ethical Considerations when Providing Clinical Services
  • How to reconcile parental disagreements related to child’s transition
  • Center the child’s voice in the process
  • Help parents create a “Safe Folder”
  • Expand and staying within scope of practice
  • Conversion Therapy – unsafe and unethical aspects
  • Critically challenging personal biases

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • School Counsellors
  • School Social Workers
  • School Psychologists
  • School Guidance Counsellors
  • School Administrators
  • Educators
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Case Managers
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health and Helping Professionals Who Work with Children

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