Affirming and Celebratory Transgender Care

One out of every five transgender people who disclose their identity to a therapist will be urged by their therapist to stop being transgender. One out of 10 transgender people will be refused services entirely, often because the provider cites a lack of experience working with transgender people. It’s little wonder that a third of transgender individuals who would want therapy choose not to seek it out (National Center for Transgender Equality, 2015). You can change these outcomes by ensuring that every aspect of your practice is gender celebratory, from your initial phone call to your final session. This course is an intermediate course on transgender care. Clinicians will learn how to actively affirm and celebrate all people who identify as transgender or non-binary, including how to support a transgender client through a gender transition.

1.5 hours CE. Recorded video (non-interactive) format

ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 1.53 hours

CE CREDITS: 1.50 continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists

TARGET AUDIENCE: Mental Health Practitioners

LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Intermediate

PREREQUISITE(S): None

INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Recorded video format (non-interactive)

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Closed captioning of audio components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS: To obtain your CE certificate, learners must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.

FINANCIAL/COMMERCIAL SUPPORT STATEMENT: This course has no commercial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:  This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.

GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICIES: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.

PARTICIPATION COSTS:  The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.

COURSE CREATION DATE: 7/22/2021 

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify at least four challenges transgender clients face when working with cisgender therapists
• Identify at least five ways to make your practice celebratory and inclusive
• Describe at least four aspects of a gender transition
• Apply at least three techniques for processing gender identity issues in therapy

1. The importance of training
2. Key terms
3. Clinical barriers
   1. Fear that therapist won’t be informed
   2. Fear that therapist will misgender them
   3. Fear that therapist will judge them
   4. Fear that they will be pathologized 
   5. Fear of being referred to another clinician 
   6. Fear that therapist will not affirm gender and/or write letters for gender alignment procedures and legal marker changes
4. Affirming and celebratory practice guidelines
5. Understanding gender transition
   1. Equifinality and equipotentiality
6. Supporting transgender clients
   1. How to have conversations about gender
   2. How to explore the topic of gender
   3. How to explore the topic of transition
   4. How to encourage exploration
   5. How to offer compassion
   6. How to ask questions that are curious and sensitive
   7. How to connect a client to community resources
   8. How to learn more on this subject