Transgender and Non-Binary Youth – Susan Radzilowski

Transgender and Non-Binary Youth – Susan Radzilowski

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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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