Affirmative Family Therapy with Gender Diverse People and Their Loved Ones (on-demand)
This 2 hour, 2-CE training with Dr. Shawn Giammattei covers supporting families of trans individuals. Available for FREE to RECAMFT members!
Course curriculum
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Affirmative Family Therapy with Gender Diverse People and Their Loved Ones - Part 1
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Affirmative Family Therapy with Gender Diverse People and Their Loved Ones - Part 2
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Affirmative Family Therapy with Gender Diverse People and Their Loved Ones - Part 3
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Affirmative Family Therapy with Gender Diverse People and Their Loved Ones - Part 4
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Post-Test
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Course Evaluation
About this course
- $36.00
- 2 hours of video content
Current RECAMFT members can register for this course for free.
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Course Description
THIS COURSE IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE TO CURRENT RECAMFT MEMBERS - log in to your recamft.org account to get the code to sign up.
Many clinicians report struggling with how to approach working with gender-diverse youth and their families, especially when caregivers are having difficulty understanding or possibly accepting their child’s gender diversity. Clinicians also report struggling with how to work with couples or relationships where a partner is on a gender journey. Given the current focus on gender-affirming care and the push to restrict its access in many locations, the expanding restrictions around access to bathrooms, athletics, and safe spaces, as well as the limited number of clinicians who feel competent to work with these clients, it is important that all mental health care providers have a basic understanding of the issues at hand and how to collaboratively work with gender diverse people and their families.
This training will help providers who work with gender-diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender-expansive children, adolescents, young adults, and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold. We will explore the basics of gender diversity & language, the gender affirmative model, the experiences of gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, gender noise, gender joy, developmental gender journeys, gender minority stress, and the competencies necessary to do this work. This presentation will be interactive and include experiential exercises.
Many clinicians report struggling with how to approach working with gender-diverse youth and their families, especially when caregivers are having difficulty understanding or possibly accepting their child’s gender diversity. Clinicians also report struggling with how to work with couples or relationships where a partner is on a gender journey. Given the current focus on gender-affirming care and the push to restrict its access in many locations, the expanding restrictions around access to bathrooms, athletics, and safe spaces, as well as the limited number of clinicians who feel competent to work with these clients, it is important that all mental health care providers have a basic understanding of the issues at hand and how to collaboratively work with gender diverse people and their families.
This training will help providers who work with gender-diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender-expansive children, adolescents, young adults, and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold. We will explore the basics of gender diversity & language, the gender affirmative model, the experiences of gender dysphoria, gender incongruence, gender noise, gender joy, developmental gender journeys, gender minority stress, and the competencies necessary to do this work. This presentation will be interactive and include experiential exercises.
Educational Goals
Clinicians will become familiar with the gender affirmative model and the experiences of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence. They will be able to describe the gender affirmative competencies necessary for working with gender diverse people and their families. Participants will be able to identify, as well as compare and contrast, the developmental phases of gender journeys for gender diverse people and their families. Clinicians will become aware of the minority stress experienced by gender diverse people and their families.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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List at least 4 tenets of the Gender Affirmative Model and contrast these with other proposed models of care
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Describe the experience of gender dysphoria, gender noise, and gender joy/euphoria
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Identify the differences and similarities of gender journeys for gender diverse youth as compared to their families and how this impacts treatment.
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Identify and address the impact of gender minority stress, trauma, and media messages on families
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Describe the impact of grief for families on a gender journey
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List the 6 phases of the family gender journey
CEs
This course meets the qualifications for 2.0 hrs of continuing education (CE) credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT (Provider #57173) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Redwood Empire Chapter CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
About the Instructor
Shawn Giammattei, PhD is a clinical family psychologist in private practice in Northern CA and the Associate Director of Mental Health for the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, Benioff Children’s Hospital. He is the founder & CEO of the Gender Health Training Institute, which is dedicated to training providers in culturally attuned, trauma-informed, family-centered gender affirmative care, the TransFamily Alliance, an educational, resource, and support community for parents with gender diverse offspring, and Quest Family Therapy, a group family therapy practice in California. He specializes in family therapy with couples, families, and individuals across the lifespan, with a particular focus on transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth and their families. He is a GEI SOC8 certified Mentor for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is on faculty for their Global Education Institute. He is also a trans-health researcher, author, international speaker, and professor teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in LGBTQ psychology and family systems. He is an advisory member of Mind the Gap, a group dedicated to gender affirming care for trans youth and their families, a past officer and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, and the author of several articles and book chapters on gender, sexuality, and family work.
Purchase Terms
Refund policy: Because you are given instant access to this on-demand training, the purchase is final and refunds are not allowed.
RECAMFT members may participate in this on-demand program for free as part of their membership benefits. Log onto your recamft.org account using the button below to retrieve the code for use on the online checkout screen. We're sorry but we cannot provide refunds to previous purchases. Free programs are available only while your RECAMFT membership is active.
RECAMFT members may participate in this on-demand program for free as part of their membership benefits. Log onto your recamft.org account using the button below to retrieve the code for use on the online checkout screen. We're sorry but we cannot provide refunds to previous purchases. Free programs are available only while your RECAMFT membership is active.