Transgender and Non-Binary Youth – Susan Radzilowski

Transgender and Non-Binary Youth – Susan Radzilowski

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 one-day training is your chance to de-pathologize treatment and reduce the vulnerabilities that can lead to significant negative outcomes for 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 – Susan will cover all the bases so you not only understand these young people, but can truly advocate for them!

Watch 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 for all settings
The most effective guidance and planning recommendations for parents
How to reconcile parental disagreements related to youth’s transition
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
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