Counseling Members of the Transgender and Gender-Expansive Community: Providing Culturally Responsive Care
4 Hours | 4 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Counseling Members of the Transgender and Gender-Expansive Community: Providing Culturally Responsive Care is presented by Cortny Stark, PhD.
Counseling members of the transgender and gender-expansive community requires a foundation of knowledge about the special issues faced by this population and a “lifelong process of engagement” (Wilkinson, 2014, p. 68) in the evaluation of self and social norms. This program provides clinicians with an overview of the most recent developments in the field and the information necessary for proficient practice with the gender-expansive community.
Topics covered include:
- Gender-affirming practices: From forms and assessments to honoring gender-expansive identities in the therapeutic space
- Identification of transgender and gender-expansive identities in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
- Assessment of Gender Dysphoria
- Gender-identity development for transgender and gender-expansive individuals
- Understanding social and medical gender-confirming interventions
- Ethical considerations when working with transgender and gender-expansive clients
- Counselors use of Reflective Practice (Larrieu and Dickson, 2009) and Cultural Humility (Tervalon and Murray-Garcia, 1998) to cultivate lifelong self-evaluation and evolving self-awareness
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe gender-affirming practices, from forms and assessments to honoring gender-expansive identities in the therapeutic space
Describe Diagnostics and Statistics Manual-V (DSM-V) identification of transgender and gender-expansive identities in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood
Describe how to assess/conceptualize Gender Dysphoria using both the diagnostic and informed consent models
Describe how to conceptualize gender-identity development for transgender and gender-expansive individuals
Describe 3-5 social and medical gender-confirming interventions
Describe ethical considerations when working with transgender and gender-expansive clients
Describe Reflective Practice (Larrieu and Dickson, 2009) and Cultural Humility (Tervalon and Murray-Garcia, 1998) to cultivate lifelong self-evaluation and evolving self-awareness
Presented By
Cortny Stark, PhD
Cortny Stark Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) Department of Counseling and Human Services and Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Fellow. Dr. Stark is the coordinator for the substance use and recovery counseling undergraduate and grad...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
3. Experience with Gender
4. Experience with Gender - Discussion
5. Key Concepts
6. Gender Identity Development
7. Gender Dysphoria
8. Gender Affirming Practice - Part 1
9. Gender-Affirming Practice
10. Gender-Affirming Practice - Discussion
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Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.