Full Course Description

Module 1: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

  • Effective and evidence-based treatment strategies for GLBT clients
  • Identify hidden treatment issues amongst GLBT couples
  • Risk assessment and treatment for GLBT teens
  • Avoid the top mistakes therapists make with their GLBT clients

Join international speaker, author and expert on gay issues and counseling, Dr. Joe Kort, as he equips you with the tools and information you need to more effectively counsel your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender clients, couples and teens.

Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the current GLBT culture, sexual fluidity and trauma associated with growing up in the closet. You will learn strategies to better treat the unique challenges your client may be facing such as self-acceptance, sexual identity, abuse, and the difficult process of coming out. Learn how to differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients. Dr. Kort will also discuss the different relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for therapeutic progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in the field!

OUTLINE

Growing Up & Coming Out: Trauma, Conflicting Norms and Unique Challenges

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health
  • Covert cultural sexual abuse
  • Developmental insults
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • 6 stages & 3 phases to coming out
  • Differentiate sexual identity, preference, fantasy & behaviors
  • Finding their sense of belonging in the GLBT community

Your GLBT Client’s Sexuality

  • Cultural understanding of GLBT sex practices and behaviors
  • Sexual fluidity
  • Bi-now, gay later concept
  • Various manifestations of bisexuality
  • Transgender and sexual functioning

GLBT Adolescence

  • Coming out issues specific to being 18-years-old and younger
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality

Differential Diagnosis

  • Mental health disorders that mimic:
    • Effects of growing up in the closet
    • Covert sexual abuse
    • Coming out stages & phases
  • Borderline/Avoidant/Narcissistic
  • Depression/ Bipolar
  • Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Recognize characterological overlays
  • Symptoms as defenses

Clinical Treatment: Put It into Practice

  • Gay Affirmative Therapy (GAT)
  • Strategies for working through coming out process
    • Psychodynamic Interventions
    • Bibliotherapy
    • CBT techniques through writing
    • Challenge internalized negative beliefs
    • Emotional regulation
  • Overcome trauma, shame, alienation and isolation
    • Exposure therapy to other GLBT individuals and groups
    • Recognize character logical-appearing overlays
    • Reaction formation
    • Trauma resolution
    • Reduce and eliminate internalized homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
  • Identify integration of self and homosexuality
  • Examine countertransference
  • Additional treatment considerations
  • Avoid common mistakes

Working with GLBT Couples

  • Imago Relationship Model
  • Gottman’s research on gay and lesbian couples
  • Differences and similarities from treating heterosexual couple
  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple: “doubling” effect around gender
  • Coming out discrepancy
  • Open relationships and polyamory
  • Mixed orientation marriage with one gay spouse, one straight spouse
  • Treatment considerations:
    • Lesbian Bed Death Myth
    • Gay male couples and vulnerability
    • Differentiation
    • Sexual compatibility

OBJECTIVES

  • Assess psychological trauma of growing up gay and lesbian.
  • Identify symptoms of Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse growing up gay.
  • Recognize stages and phases of coming out and how to work with couples at different stages.
  • Discuss the "doubling" factor of two members of the same gender and how this plays out in their relationship conflicts.
  • Differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients.
  • Utilize specific interventions and assessment tools for GLBT clients and gay affirmative therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, gay affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger on Huffington Post on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and sexual addiction. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual, to be released Fall, 2014.

To order the book, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets, please visit our product store.

 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Assess gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning clients for psychological trauma to assist in informing treatments interventions.
  2. Establish and understand the six distinct stages of the coming out process to provide optimal amount of support to the client.
  3. Distinguish between mental health disorders that mimic the effects of the trauma from growing up LGBTQ.
  4. Utilize specific clinical interventions and assessment tools to more effectively treat LGBTQ clients.
  5. Employ adaptable clinical interventions to work more effectively with LGBTQ clients from different generations.
  6. Consider the dynamics of same gendered couple, including vulnerabilities and strengths, when working with LGB couples in session.

Outline

Do No Harm: Make Your LGBTQ Client Feel Safe & Respected in Therapy

  • Red-flag words: Offensive words you might use (without you knowing!)
  • Intake session: questions about developing identity
  • Strategies to establish rapport and comfort
  • Tips for discussing sex and sexuality

Talk About Sex!

  • Don’t miss out on key info by ignoring the sex talk
  • Top or bottom? And other important questions to ask: flexible, changing sexual preferences and attractions
  • Varieties of sexuality
  • Protect the client from your own biases and assumptions

Coming Out

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health from childhood to adulthood
  • 6 distinct stages with interventions
  • Navigate the 3 phases of coming out to avoid isolation and alienation
  • Fear, shame and rejection unique to this population
  • Relationship concerns: family, friends, school or workplace
  • Finding a sense of belonging in LGBTQ community
  • Harmful and dangerous effects of conversion therapy

LGBTQ Adolescence

  • Coming out issues
  • It gets better but not before coming out
  • Bullying and other safety issues contributing to PTSD
  • Harm reduction adult dating apps such as Grindr, Scruff, etc.
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality
  • Finding support

Gay Male

  • Develop a treatment plan and goals for unique challenges growing up gay male
  • Accurate assessment of alcohol use with this high risk population
  • HIV & STI prevention strategies and risk and harm reduction
  • Generational differences informing different treatment plans
  • Internalized homophobia
  • Learn specific sexual terminology to avoid alienating your client

Lesbian

  • Develop a treatment plan and goals for unique challenges growing up lesbian
  • Specific terminology that is helpful and damaging in this population
  • Sex and sexuality: what to know, what to ask
  • Strategies to manage gender dynamics
  • Internalized homophobia manifests in development

Bisexuality

  • Learn strategies to help the anxiety of bisexuals in dating and relationships
  • Internalized biphobia and bisexual development from childhood into adulthood
  • Compare and contrast male and female bisexuality

Transgender

  • Overcome the knowledge barrier
  • Avoid using outdated treatment plans
  • Learn and differentiate correct terms such as gender queer, gender fluid and cisgender
  • Strategies to help your client tell their partner, families, friends and employers
  • Tips to discuss hormone treatments and surgical procedures
  • Crucial points for transgender teens medically and psychologically and how to create best treatment plan

Questioning

  • Avoid mislabeling a client and leading them down the wrong sexual identity path
  • Differentiate between sexual fluidity from bisexuality, gay and lesbian identities
  • Differentiate between sexual identity, sexual behavior and sexual fantasies

Working with LGB Couples

  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple including vulnerabilities and strengths
  • Coming out discrepancy causing turbulence for couples
  • Recognize and identify how internalized homophobia creates conflicts
  • Open relationships in gay male couples
  • Sexual issues and strategies on compatibility, incompatibility, frequency and satisfaction

Working with Mixed Orientation Couples and Relationships

  • Specific stages of coming out as a mixed orientation couple
  • Specialized treatment programs for the straight spouses
  • Helping LGBTQ spouse integrate their identity into their mixed orientation relationships
  • Learn how to identify which couples will succeed and which won’t

Copyright : 04/12/2015

Module 2: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

  • Effective and evidence-based treatment strategies for GLBT clients
  • Identify hidden treatment issues amongst GLBT couples
  • Risk assessment and treatment for GLBT teens
  • Avoid the top mistakes therapists make with their GLBT clients

Join international speaker, author and expert on gay issues and counseling, Dr. Joe Kort, as he equips you with the tools and information you need to more effectively counsel your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender clients, couples and teens.

Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the current GLBT culture, sexual fluidity and trauma associated with growing up in the closet. You will learn strategies to better treat the unique challenges your client may be facing such as self-acceptance, sexual identity, abuse, and the difficult process of coming out. Learn how to differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients. Dr. Kort will also discuss the different relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for therapeutic progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in the field!

OUTLINE

Growing Up & Coming Out: Trauma, Conflicting Norms and Unique Challenges

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health
  • Covert cultural sexual abuse
  • Developmental insults
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • 6 stages & 3 phases to coming out
  • Differentiate sexual identity, preference, fantasy & behaviors
  • Finding their sense of belonging in the GLBT community

Your GLBT Client’s Sexuality

  • Cultural understanding of GLBT sex practices and behaviors
  • Sexual fluidity
  • Bi-now, gay later concept
  • Various manifestations of bisexuality
  • Transgender and sexual functioning

GLBT Adolescence

  • Coming out issues specific to being 18-years-old and younger
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality

Differential Diagnosis

  • Mental health disorders that mimic:
    • Effects of growing up in the closet
    • Covert sexual abuse
    • Coming out stages & phases
  • Borderline/Avoidant/Narcissistic
  • Depression/ Bipolar
  • Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Recognize characterological overlays
  • Symptoms as defenses

Clinical Treatment: Put It into Practice

  • Gay Affirmative Therapy (GAT)
  • Strategies for working through coming out process
    • Psychodynamic Interventions
    • Bibliotherapy
    • CBT techniques through writing
    • Challenge internalized negative beliefs
    • Emotional regulation
  • Overcome trauma, shame, alienation and isolation
    • Exposure therapy to other GLBT individuals and groups
    • Recognize character logical-appearing overlays
    • Reaction formation
    • Trauma resolution
    • Reduce and eliminate internalized homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
  • Identify integration of self and homosexuality
  • Examine countertransference
  • Additional treatment considerations
  • Avoid common mistakes

Working with GLBT Couples

  • Imago Relationship Model
  • Gottman’s research on gay and lesbian couples
  • Differences and similarities from treating heterosexual couple
  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple: “doubling” effect around gender
  • Coming out discrepancy
  • Open relationships and polyamory
  • Mixed orientation marriage with one gay spouse, one straight spouse
  • Treatment considerations:
    • Lesbian Bed Death Myth
    • Gay male couples and vulnerability
    • Differentiation
    • Sexual compatibility

OBJECTIVES

  • Assess psychological trauma of growing up gay and lesbian.
  • Identify symptoms of Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse growing up gay.
  • Recognize stages and phases of coming out and how to work with couples at different stages.
  • Discuss the "doubling" factor of two members of the same gender and how this plays out in their relationship conflicts.
  • Differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients.
  • Utilize specific interventions and assessment tools for GLBT clients and gay affirmative therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, gay affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger on Huffington Post on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and sexual addiction. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual, to be released Fall, 2014.

To order the book, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets, please visit our product store.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other Mental Health Professionals

 

ADA Needs

We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Copyright : 04/12/2015

Module 3: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

  • Effective and evidence-based treatment strategies for GLBT clients
  • Identify hidden treatment issues amongst GLBT couples
  • Risk assessment and treatment for GLBT teens
  • Avoid the top mistakes therapists make with their GLBT clients

Join international speaker, author and expert on gay issues and counseling, Dr. Joe Kort, as he equips you with the tools and information you need to more effectively counsel your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender clients, couples and teens.

Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the current GLBT culture, sexual fluidity and trauma associated with growing up in the closet. You will learn strategies to better treat the unique challenges your client may be facing such as self-acceptance, sexual identity, abuse, and the difficult process of coming out. Learn how to differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients. Dr. Kort will also discuss the different relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for therapeutic progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in the field!

OUTLINE

Growing Up & Coming Out: Trauma, Conflicting Norms and Unique Challenges

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health
  • Covert cultural sexual abuse
  • Developmental insults
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • 6 stages & 3 phases to coming out
  • Differentiate sexual identity, preference, fantasy & behaviors
  • Finding their sense of belonging in the GLBT community

Your GLBT Client’s Sexuality

  • Cultural understanding of GLBT sex practices and behaviors
  • Sexual fluidity
  • Bi-now, gay later concept
  • Various manifestations of bisexuality
  • Transgender and sexual functioning

GLBT Adolescence

  • Coming out issues specific to being 18-years-old and younger
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality

Differential Diagnosis

  • Mental health disorders that mimic:
    • Effects of growing up in the closet
    • Covert sexual abuse
    • Coming out stages & phases
  • Borderline/Avoidant/Narcissistic
  • Depression/ Bipolar
  • Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Recognize characterological overlays
  • Symptoms as defenses

Clinical Treatment: Put It into Practice

  • Gay Affirmative Therapy (GAT)
  • Strategies for working through coming out process
    • Psychodynamic Interventions
    • Bibliotherapy
    • CBT techniques through writing
    • Challenge internalized negative beliefs
    • Emotional regulation
  • Overcome trauma, shame, alienation and isolation
    • Exposure therapy to other GLBT individuals and groups
    • Recognize character logical-appearing overlays
    • Reaction formation
    • Trauma resolution
    • Reduce and eliminate internalized homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
  • Identify integration of self and homosexuality
  • Examine countertransference
  • Additional treatment considerations
  • Avoid common mistakes

Working with GLBT Couples

  • Imago Relationship Model
  • Gottman’s research on gay and lesbian couples
  • Differences and similarities from treating heterosexual couple
  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple: “doubling” effect around gender
  • Coming out discrepancy
  • Open relationships and polyamory
  • Mixed orientation marriage with one gay spouse, one straight spouse
  • Treatment considerations:
    • Lesbian Bed Death Myth
    • Gay male couples and vulnerability
    • Differentiation
    • Sexual compatibility

OBJECTIVES

  • Assess psychological trauma of growing up gay and lesbian.
  • Identify symptoms of Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse growing up gay.
  • Recognize stages and phases of coming out and how to work with couples at different stages.
  • Discuss the "doubling" factor of two members of the same gender and how this plays out in their relationship conflicts.
  • Differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients.
  • Utilize specific interventions and assessment tools for GLBT clients and gay affirmative therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, gay affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger on Huffington Post on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and sexual addiction. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual, to be released Fall, 2014.

To order the book, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets, please visit our product store.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other Mental Health Professionals

 

ADA Needs

We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Copyright : 04/12/2015

Module 4: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

  • Effective and evidence-based treatment strategies for GLBT clients
  • Identify hidden treatment issues amongst GLBT couples
  • Risk assessment and treatment for GLBT teens
  • Avoid the top mistakes therapists make with their GLBT clients

Join international speaker, author and expert on gay issues and counseling, Dr. Joe Kort, as he equips you with the tools and information you need to more effectively counsel your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender clients, couples and teens.

Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the current GLBT culture, sexual fluidity and trauma associated with growing up in the closet. You will learn strategies to better treat the unique challenges your client may be facing such as self-acceptance, sexual identity, abuse, and the difficult process of coming out. Learn how to differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients. Dr. Kort will also discuss the different relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for therapeutic progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in the field!

OUTLINE

Growing Up & Coming Out: Trauma, Conflicting Norms and Unique Challenges

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health
  • Covert cultural sexual abuse
  • Developmental insults
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • 6 stages & 3 phases to coming out
  • Differentiate sexual identity, preference, fantasy & behaviors
  • Finding their sense of belonging in the GLBT community

Your GLBT Client’s Sexuality

  • Cultural understanding of GLBT sex practices and behaviors
  • Sexual fluidity
  • Bi-now, gay later concept
  • Various manifestations of bisexuality
  • Transgender and sexual functioning

GLBT Adolescence

  • Coming out issues specific to being 18-years-old and younger
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality

Differential Diagnosis

  • Mental health disorders that mimic:
    • Effects of growing up in the closet
    • Covert sexual abuse
    • Coming out stages & phases
  • Borderline/Avoidant/Narcissistic
  • Depression/ Bipolar
  • Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Recognize characterological overlays
  • Symptoms as defenses

Clinical Treatment: Put It into Practice

  • Gay Affirmative Therapy (GAT)
  • Strategies for working through coming out process
    • Psychodynamic Interventions
    • Bibliotherapy
    • CBT techniques through writing
    • Challenge internalized negative beliefs
    • Emotional regulation
  • Overcome trauma, shame, alienation and isolation
    • Exposure therapy to other GLBT individuals and groups
    • Recognize character logical-appearing overlays
    • Reaction formation
    • Trauma resolution
    • Reduce and eliminate internalized homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
  • Identify integration of self and homosexuality
  • Examine countertransference
  • Additional treatment considerations
  • Avoid common mistakes

Working with GLBT Couples

  • Imago Relationship Model
  • Gottman’s research on gay and lesbian couples
  • Differences and similarities from treating heterosexual couple
  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple: “doubling” effect around gender
  • Coming out discrepancy
  • Open relationships and polyamory
  • Mixed orientation marriage with one gay spouse, one straight spouse
  • Treatment considerations:
    • Lesbian Bed Death Myth
    • Gay male couples and vulnerability
    • Differentiation
    • Sexual compatibility

OBJECTIVES

  • Assess psychological trauma of growing up gay and lesbian.
  • Identify symptoms of Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse growing up gay.
  • Recognize stages and phases of coming out and how to work with couples at different stages.
  • Discuss the "doubling" factor of two members of the same gender and how this plays out in their relationship conflicts.
  • Differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients.
  • Utilize specific interventions and assessment tools for GLBT clients and gay affirmative therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, gay affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger on Huffington Post on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and sexual addiction. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual, to be released Fall, 2014.

To order the book, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets, please visit our product store.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other Mental Health Professionals

 

ADA Needs

We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Copyright : 04/12/2015

Module 5: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

  • Effective and evidence-based treatment strategies for GLBT clients
  • Identify hidden treatment issues amongst GLBT couples
  • Risk assessment and treatment for GLBT teens
  • Avoid the top mistakes therapists make with their GLBT clients

Join international speaker, author and expert on gay issues and counseling, Dr. Joe Kort, as he equips you with the tools and information you need to more effectively counsel your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender clients, couples and teens.

Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the current GLBT culture, sexual fluidity and trauma associated with growing up in the closet. You will learn strategies to better treat the unique challenges your client may be facing such as self-acceptance, sexual identity, abuse, and the difficult process of coming out. Learn how to differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients. Dr. Kort will also discuss the different relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for therapeutic progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in the field!

OUTLINE

Growing Up & Coming Out: Trauma, Conflicting Norms and Unique Challenges

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health
  • Covert cultural sexual abuse
  • Developmental insults
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • 6 stages & 3 phases to coming out
  • Differentiate sexual identity, preference, fantasy & behaviors
  • Finding their sense of belonging in the GLBT community

Your GLBT Client’s Sexuality

  • Cultural understanding of GLBT sex practices and behaviors
  • Sexual fluidity
  • Bi-now, gay later concept
  • Various manifestations of bisexuality
  • Transgender and sexual functioning

GLBT Adolescence

  • Coming out issues specific to being 18-years-old and younger
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality

Differential Diagnosis

  • Mental health disorders that mimic:
    • Effects of growing up in the closet
    • Covert sexual abuse
    • Coming out stages & phases
  • Borderline/Avoidant/Narcissistic
  • Depression/ Bipolar
  • Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Recognize characterological overlays
  • Symptoms as defenses

Clinical Treatment: Put It into Practice

  • Gay Affirmative Therapy (GAT)
  • Strategies for working through coming out process
    • Psychodynamic Interventions
    • Bibliotherapy
    • CBT techniques through writing
    • Challenge internalized negative beliefs
    • Emotional regulation
  • Overcome trauma, shame, alienation and isolation
    • Exposure therapy to other GLBT individuals and groups
    • Recognize character logical-appearing overlays
    • Reaction formation
    • Trauma resolution
    • Reduce and eliminate internalized homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
  • Identify integration of self and homosexuality
  • Examine countertransference
  • Additional treatment considerations
  • Avoid common mistakes

Working with GLBT Couples

  • Imago Relationship Model
  • Gottman’s research on gay and lesbian couples
  • Differences and similarities from treating heterosexual couple
  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple: “doubling” effect around gender
  • Coming out discrepancy
  • Open relationships and polyamory
  • Mixed orientation marriage with one gay spouse, one straight spouse
  • Treatment considerations:
    • Lesbian Bed Death Myth
    • Gay male couples and vulnerability
    • Differentiation
    • Sexual compatibility

OBJECTIVES

  • Assess psychological trauma of growing up gay and lesbian.
  • Identify symptoms of Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse growing up gay.
  • Recognize stages and phases of coming out and how to work with couples at different stages.
  • Discuss the "doubling" factor of two members of the same gender and how this plays out in their relationship conflicts.
  • Differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients.
  • Utilize specific interventions and assessment tools for GLBT clients and gay affirmative therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, gay affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger on Huffington Post on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and sexual addiction. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual, to be released Fall, 2014.

To order the book, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets, please visit our product store.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other Mental Health Professionals

 

ADA Needs

We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Copyright : 20/07/2017

Module 6: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

  • Effective and evidence-based treatment strategies for GLBT clients
  • Identify hidden treatment issues amongst GLBT couples
  • Risk assessment and treatment for GLBT teens
  • Avoid the top mistakes therapists make with their GLBT clients

Join international speaker, author and expert on gay issues and counseling, Dr. Joe Kort, as he equips you with the tools and information you need to more effectively counsel your gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender clients, couples and teens.

Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the current GLBT culture, sexual fluidity and trauma associated with growing up in the closet. You will learn strategies to better treat the unique challenges your client may be facing such as self-acceptance, sexual identity, abuse, and the difficult process of coming out. Learn how to differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients. Dr. Kort will also discuss the different relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for therapeutic progress.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in the field!

OUTLINE

Growing Up & Coming Out: Trauma, Conflicting Norms and Unique Challenges

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health
  • Covert cultural sexual abuse
  • Developmental insults
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • 6 stages & 3 phases to coming out
  • Differentiate sexual identity, preference, fantasy & behaviors
  • Finding their sense of belonging in the GLBT community

Your GLBT Client’s Sexuality

  • Cultural understanding of GLBT sex practices and behaviors
  • Sexual fluidity
  • Bi-now, gay later concept
  • Various manifestations of bisexuality
  • Transgender and sexual functioning

GLBT Adolescence

  • Coming out issues specific to being 18-years-old and younger
  • Risk assessment for substance abuse
  • Assess for suicidality

Differential Diagnosis

  • Mental health disorders that mimic:
    • Effects of growing up in the closet
    • Covert sexual abuse
    • Coming out stages & phases
  • Borderline/Avoidant/Narcissistic
  • Depression/ Bipolar
  • Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Recognize characterological overlays
  • Symptoms as defenses

Clinical Treatment: Put It into Practice

  • Gay Affirmative Therapy (GAT)
  • Strategies for working through coming out process
    • Psychodynamic Interventions
    • Bibliotherapy
    • CBT techniques through writing
    • Challenge internalized negative beliefs
    • Emotional regulation
  • Overcome trauma, shame, alienation and isolation
    • Exposure therapy to other GLBT individuals and groups
    • Recognize character logical-appearing overlays
    • Reaction formation
    • Trauma resolution
    • Reduce and eliminate internalized homophobia, biphobia and transphobia
  • Identify integration of self and homosexuality
  • Examine countertransference
  • Additional treatment considerations
  • Avoid common mistakes

Working with GLBT Couples

  • Imago Relationship Model
  • Gottman’s research on gay and lesbian couples
  • Differences and similarities from treating heterosexual couple
  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple: “doubling” effect around gender
  • Coming out discrepancy
  • Open relationships and polyamory
  • Mixed orientation marriage with one gay spouse, one straight spouse
  • Treatment considerations:
    • Lesbian Bed Death Myth
    • Gay male couples and vulnerability
    • Differentiation
    • Sexual compatibility

OBJECTIVES

  • Assess psychological trauma of growing up gay and lesbian.
  • Identify symptoms of Covert Cultural Sexual Abuse growing up gay.
  • Recognize stages and phases of coming out and how to work with couples at different stages.
  • Discuss the "doubling" factor of two members of the same gender and how this plays out in their relationship conflicts.
  • Differentiate common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and bipolar, which often mimic the effects of abuse, stigmatization, or the coming out process for GLBT clients.
  • Utilize specific interventions and assessment tools for GLBT clients and gay affirmative therapy.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a board certified sexologist and the founder of The Center for Relationship and Sexual Health, and runs a private practice in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Dr. Kort, a therapist, coach and author, has been practicing psychotherapy for over 25 years and has spoken internationally on the subject of gay counseling. He specializes in sex therapy, gay affirmative psychotherapy, sexually compulsive behaviors, and IMAGO relationship therapy designed for couples to enhance their relationship through improved communication. Dr. Kort is a blogger on Huffington Post on issues of sexuality. He has been a guest on the various television programs on mixed orientation marriages and sexual addiction. Dr. Kort is the author of several books, including, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bisexual, to be released Fall, 2014.

To order the book, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, please visit our product store.

To order the book, Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients: 111 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets, please visit our product store.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other Mental Health Professionals

 

ADA Needs

We would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 1-800-844-8260.

 

Satisfaction Guarantee

Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

Copyright : 04/12/2015

Module 1: LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  • Gain clinical skills to address the unique needs of LGBTQ youth
  • Help families become more supportive
  • Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments
  • Learn how to assist with gender transition

Recently, the LGBTQ community has been in in the national spotlight for challenging issues like which bathroom a transgender person should use, increased youth suicide rates, and the Pulse nightclub tragedy. No wonder youth in our communities are scared to be open about who they are.

As a clinician, how are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth when their parents are just not on board? Also as a clinician, do you know what type of treatment techniques to suggest when a transgender youth wants to prolong hitting puberty? These are the types of questions clinicians struggle with.

Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, Ph.D., LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:

  • Coming out
  • Bullying
  • Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
  • Making healthy choices
  • Thriving in school
  • Options for guiding gender transition

Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Assess how school, family and social pressures impact the formation of an LGBTQ youth’s identity.
  2. Support the coming out process with youth clients and facilitate family interventions to create safety, support, space, and acceptance.
  3. Analyze LGBTQ youth clients’ level of risk and protective factors for developing symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as self-harm behaviors and suicidal ideation.
  4. Assess family dynamics of the client to determine potential to work towards increased acceptance and support.
  5. Assist transgender clients in the readiness process for medical gender transition and compose letters of support for clients to obtain medical gender transition treatments.
  6. Foster LGBTQ affirmative school environments with strategies for working in conjunction with school staff, administration and parents.

Outline

 

Coming Into an LGBTQ Identity and Coming Out to Others

  • Identity development
  • Internalized homo/bi/trans -phobia
  • The decision to come out
  • Fears in the coming out process
  • Youths’ safety

Clinical Considerations

  • Intervening in depression, shame, self-harming behaviors, and suicidality
  • Addressing anxiety
  • Approaching transgender compared to LGBQ
  • Importance of family acceptance
  • Intersections of other cultural identities
  • Research limitations and risks of psychotherapeutic approaches

Differences within the LGBTQ Spectrum

  • Lesbian Youth
    • Confronting invisibility
    • Facilitating positive self-esteem
  • Gay Youth
    • Discussing gender role expectations
    • Sexual health
    • Substance use
  • Bisexual Youth
    • Understanding bisexuality as a legitimate identity
    • Harmfulness of bisexual erasure
  • Transgender Youth
    • Assessing need/desire for gender transition
    • Exploring options for gender expression
  • Questioning Youth
    • Making space for exploration and fluidity
    • Reducing pressure to self-label

Working with Families

  • Coming Out
  • Creating space for parents’ reactions and resistance
  • Supporting youths’ LGBTQ identity
  • Helping parents work towards increased acceptance and support
  • Navigating religious beliefs
  • Supporting parents’ own process of coming out
  • Attending to the needs of siblings and extended family members
  • Facilitating support networks

LGBTQ-Affirmative School Environments

  • Importance of safe schools for youths’ well-being
  • Assisting parents with school advocacy
  • Coaching youth towards self-advocacy
  • Dealing with bullying and mistreatment
  • Considerations for transgender youth

Copyright : 07/12/2016

Module 2: LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  • Gain clinical skills to address the unique needs of LGBTQ youth
  • Help families become more supportive
  • Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments
  • Learn how to assist with gender transition

Recently, the LGBTQ community has been in in the national spotlight for challenging issues like which bathroom a transgender person should use, increased youth suicide rates, and the Pulse nightclub tragedy. No wonder youth in our communities are scared to be open about who they are.

As a clinician, how are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth when their parents are just not on board? Also as a clinician, do you know what type of treatment techniques to suggest when an transgender youth wants to prolong hitting puberty? These are the types of questions clinicians struggle with.

Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, Ph.D., LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:

  • Coming out
  • Bullying
  • Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
  • Making healthy choices
  • Thriving in school
  • Options for guiding gender transition

Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.

OUTLINE

Coming Into an LGBTQ Identity and Coming Out to Others

  • Identity development
  • Internalized homo/bi/trans -phobia
  • The decision to come out
  • Fears in the coming out process
  • Youths’ safety

Clinical Considerations

  • Intervening in depression, shame, self-harming behaviors, and suicidality
  • Addressing anxiety
  • Approaching transgender compared to LGBQ
  • Importance of family acceptance
  • Intersections of other cultural identities

Differences within the LGBTQ Spectrum

  • Lesbian Youth
    • Confronting invisibility
    • Facilitating positive self-esteem
  • Gay Youth
    • Discussing gender role expectations
    • Sexual health
    • Substance use
  • Bisexual Youth
    • Understanding bisexuality as a legitimate identity
    • Harmfulness of bisexual erasure
  • Transgender Youth
    • Assessing need/desire for gender transition
    • Exploring options for gender expression
  • Questioning Youth
    • Making space for exploration and fluidity
    • Reducing pressure to self-label

Working with Families

  • Coming Out
  • Creating space for parents’ reactions and resistance
  • Supporting youths’ LGBTQ identity
  • Helping parents work towards increased acceptance and support
  • Navigating religious beliefs
  • Supporting parents’ own process of coming out
  • Attending to the needs of siblings and extended family members
  • Facilitating support networks

LGBTQ-Affirmative School Environments

  • Importance of safe schools for youths’ well-being
  • Assisting parents with school advocacy
  • Coaching youth towards self-advocacy
  • Dealing with bullying and mistreatment
  • Considerations for transgender youth

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain the pressures of youth growing into an LGBTQ identity.
  2. Navigate the coming out process with youth and families.
  3. Analyze LGBTQ youth clients’ level of risk and protective factors.
  4. Measure parents’ level of acceptance and help them gain increased support.
  5. Distinguish between the needs of LGBQ and transgender youth and their families.
  6. Determine when families are ready for gender transition.
  7. Formulate letters of support for medical gender transition treatments.
  8. Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments.

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, Inc., PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs

PESI would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 800-844-8260.

Copyright : 07/12/2016

Module 3: LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  • Gain clinical skills to address the unique needs of LGBTQ youth
  • Help families become more supportive
  • Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments
  • Learn how to assist with gender transition

Recently, the LGBTQ community has been in in the national spotlight for challenging issues like which bathroom a transgender person should use, increased youth suicide rates, and the Pulse nightclub tragedy. No wonder youth in our communities are scared to be open about who they are.

As a clinician, how are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth when their parents are just not on board? Also as a clinician, do you know what type of treatment techniques to suggest when an transgender youth wants to prolong hitting puberty? These are the types of questions clinicians struggle with.

Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, Ph.D., LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:

  • Coming out
  • Bullying
  • Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
  • Making healthy choices
  • Thriving in school
  • Options for guiding gender transition

Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.

OUTLINE

Coming Into an LGBTQ Identity and Coming Out to Others

  • Identity development
  • Internalized homo/bi/trans -phobia
  • The decision to come out
  • Fears in the coming out process
  • Youths’ safety

Clinical Considerations

  • Intervening in depression, shame, self-harming behaviors, and suicidality
  • Addressing anxiety
  • Approaching transgender compared to LGBQ
  • Importance of family acceptance
  • Intersections of other cultural identities

Differences within the LGBTQ Spectrum

  • Lesbian Youth
    • Confronting invisibility
    • Facilitating positive self-esteem
  • Gay Youth
    • Discussing gender role expectations
    • Sexual health
    • Substance use
  • Bisexual Youth
    • Understanding bisexuality as a legitimate identity
    • Harmfulness of bisexual erasure
  • Transgender Youth
    • Assessing need/desire for gender transition
    • Exploring options for gender expression
  • Questioning Youth
    • Making space for exploration and fluidity
    • Reducing pressure to self-label

Working with Families

  • Coming Out
  • Creating space for parents’ reactions and resistance
  • Supporting youths’ LGBTQ identity
  • Helping parents work towards increased acceptance and support
  • Navigating religious beliefs
  • Supporting parents’ own process of coming out
  • Attending to the needs of siblings and extended family members
  • Facilitating support networks

LGBTQ-Affirmative School Environments

  • Importance of safe schools for youths’ well-being
  • Assisting parents with school advocacy
  • Coaching youth towards self-advocacy
  • Dealing with bullying and mistreatment
  • Considerations for transgender youth

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain the pressures of youth growing into an LGBTQ identity.
  2. Navigate the coming out process with youth and families.
  3. Analyze LGBTQ youth clients’ level of risk and protective factors.
  4. Measure parents’ level of acceptance and help them gain increased support.
  5. Distinguish between the needs of LGBQ and transgender youth and their families.
  6. Determine when families are ready for gender transition.
  7. Formulate letters of support for medical gender transition treatments.
  8. Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments.

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, Inc., PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs

PESI would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 800-844-8260.

Copyright : 07/12/2016

Module 4: LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

  • Gain clinical skills to address the unique needs of LGBTQ youth
  • Help families become more supportive
  • Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments
  • Learn how to assist with gender transition

Recently, the LGBTQ community has been in in the national spotlight for challenging issues like which bathroom a transgender person should use, increased youth suicide rates, and the Pulse nightclub tragedy. No wonder youth in our communities are scared to be open about who they are.

As a clinician, how are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth when their parents are just not on board? Also as a clinician, do you know what type of treatment techniques to suggest when an transgender youth wants to prolong hitting puberty? These are the types of questions clinicians struggle with.

Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, Ph.D., LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:

  • Coming out
  • Bullying
  • Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
  • Making healthy choices
  • Thriving in school
  • Options for guiding gender transition

Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.

OUTLINE

Coming Into an LGBTQ Identity and Coming Out to Others

  • Identity development
  • Internalized homo/bi/trans -phobia
  • The decision to come out
  • Fears in the coming out process
  • Youths’ safety

Clinical Considerations

  • Intervening in depression, shame, self-harming behaviors, and suicidality
  • Addressing anxiety
  • Approaching transgender compared to LGBQ
  • Importance of family acceptance
  • Intersections of other cultural identities

Differences within the LGBTQ Spectrum

  • Lesbian Youth
    • Confronting invisibility
    • Facilitating positive self-esteem
  • Gay Youth
    • Discussing gender role expectations
    • Sexual health
    • Substance use
  • Bisexual Youth
    • Understanding bisexuality as a legitimate identity
    • Harmfulness of bisexual erasure
  • Transgender Youth
    • Assessing need/desire for gender transition
    • Exploring options for gender expression
  • Questioning Youth
    • Making space for exploration and fluidity
    • Reducing pressure to self-label

Working with Families

  • Coming Out
  • Creating space for parents’ reactions and resistance
  • Supporting youths’ LGBTQ identity
  • Helping parents work towards increased acceptance and support
  • Navigating religious beliefs
  • Supporting parents’ own process of coming out
  • Attending to the needs of siblings and extended family members
  • Facilitating support networks

LGBTQ-Affirmative School Environments

  • Importance of safe schools for youths’ well-being
  • Assisting parents with school advocacy
  • Coaching youth towards self-advocacy
  • Dealing with bullying and mistreatment
  • Considerations for transgender youth

OBJECTIVES

  1. Explain the pressures of youth growing into an LGBTQ identity.
  2. Navigate the coming out process with youth and families.
  3. Analyze LGBTQ youth clients’ level of risk and protective factors.
  4. Measure parents’ level of acceptance and help them gain increased support.
  5. Distinguish between the needs of LGBQ and transgender youth and their families.
  6. Determine when families are ready for gender transition.
  7. Formulate letters of support for medical gender transition treatments.
  8. Advocate for LGBTQ-affirmative school environments.

Satisfaction Guarantee
Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to PESI, Inc., PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or call 1-800-844-8260.

ADA Needs

PESI would be happy to accommodate your ADA needs; please call our Customer Service Department for more information at 800-844-8260.

Copyright : 07/12/2016