Working with LGBTQ

Webcast Information

Eastern Time

8:00am Program begins

11:50am-1:00pm Lunch break

4:00pm Program ends

To register: Logan Morlan at lmorlan@sycamores.indstate.edu or 812-237-4536

 Host: Indiana State University For additional information visit: https://cdn.pesi.com/pdf/inhouse/faq.pdf

 A 9-year-old boy took his own life, just days after coming out to his peers as gay, due to the severe bullying he received. Sadly, he is not alone, suicide rates among LGBTQ youth are rising at an alarming pace.

As a clinician, how do you approach a sensitive topic like gender identity without offending your clients? How do you navigate the LGBTQ spectrum, with its unique terminology and challenges? How are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth client when their parents are not on board?

You are not alone in struggling with these types of questions. Join expert Tristan Martin, PhD, LMFT, as he draws on his many years of working with LGBTQ youth. Tristan will show you effective clinical strategies for:

• The coming out process

• Bullying

 • Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming

• Making healthy choices

• Thriving in school

• Developing support networks

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.

Help LGBTQ kids and adolescents know that it’s their right to be themselves!

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.

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