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Digital Seminar

Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care

What Helps and What Harms
Faculty:
Margaret Nichols, PhD
Duration:
Approx 3 hrs
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
23 Mar, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096528
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.
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Description

If you’re confused about how to best work with trans and nonbinary clients these days, you’re not alone. In the U.S., more than one percent of adults and around two percent of teenagers openly identify as transgender, but gender-affirming mental health care is under attack, and most clinicians receive little or no training in working with this population. With 550 anti-trans bills currently in state legislatures, and 23 states with active bans against gender-affirming care, affirming therapy is desperately needed. In this workshop, you’ll explore the critical elements of gender-affirming care and the arguments for and against certain interventions.  You’ll explore: 

 

  • How gender dysphoria manifests differently in children, adolescents, and adults, and what types of young people are likely to persist in a trans identity over time 
  • The difference between those who identify as transgender and those who are nonbinary 
  • What types of mental health and medical interventions are appropriate at different ages  
  • How to parse the arguments against gender-affirming care, including Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria and detransitioners 

CPD

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 3 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual - Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care (5.4 MB) 86 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document important-notice-florida-licensees - French (12 KB) 1 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care - French (5.4 MB) 86 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document important-notice-florida-licensees - Italian (12 KB) 1 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care - Italian (5.4 MB) 86 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document important-notice-florida-licensees - German (12 KB) 1 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care - German (5.4 MB) 86 Pages Available after Purchase
Text Document important-notice-florida-licensees - Spanish (12 KB) 1 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Gender-Affirming Mental Health Care - Spanish (5.4 MB) 86 Pages Available after Purchase

Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


Objectives

  1. Explain the history of the treatment of trans and nonbinary individuals and the conflicting approaches to treatment.
  2. Describe the differences in how children, adolescents and adults exhibit gender dysphoria.
  3. Articulate the principles of gender affirmative care and which interventions are appropriate with different populations.
  4. Appraise the arguments for and against interventions used with children and adolescents.

Outline

Background of gender affirmative care 

  • Historical/cross-cultural existence of trans people  
  • U.S. efforts: from medical condition to psychiatric diagnosis to validation 
  • Development of gender affirmative care, international perspectives 

 

Commonly used terms  

 

  • Gender dysphoria across the life cycle 
  • Gender nonconformity in pre-pubertal children 
  • Adolescent gender dysphoria 
  • Adult trans/nonbinary identities 

 

Principles of gender affirmative care 

  • Theoretical perspective 
  • Psychological/social interventions 
  • Medical interventions 

 

Current controversies 

  • U.S. legislation 
  • Early childhood social transition 
  • Use of puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones in minors 
  • Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria – myth or reality? 
  • Detransition – prevalence and concerns 

 

Risks and Limitations  

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Nurses

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