Clinical Work With Transgender Clients: The Basics and Beyond – PSYCH 1111

Understand how to best engage individuals who identify across the gender spectrum. Study language and terminology; the differences between biological sex, gender and sexual orientation; and specific issues that some transgender clients face, including poverty, trauma and substance-abuse issues. You are challenged to explore your own gender biases to gain awareness of how to appropriately and effectively help transgender people in the clinical setting. In addition, you explore trans-identified clients? experiences of oppression, prejudice and discrimination, as well as strengths that are prominent within the trans community that can be sources of support for your clients. The instructors discuss these topics using film and discussion, small- and large-group exercises, and exploration and analysis of case vignettes.

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will have learned:

How to create a clinical environment in a variety of mental health settings that is welcoming to transgender and gender-nonconforming people
Basic terminology and how to differentiate between sex, gender and sexual orientation
The discrimination and oppression experienced by members of the transgender community and how those experiences affect the clinical picture in the mental health setting
How substance use and trauma affect a segment of the transgender community, and how those issues present and can be addressed in the clinical frame
The importance of resilience for transgender clients and how to support the factors that contribute to resilience in clinical work

Sections

Accrediting Associations