Trauma Factors in Transgender and Non-Binary Clients: Treating Addiction through a Gender Affirming Lens

Transgender and gender non-binary individuals (Trans*/NB) comprise one of our culture’s most vulnerable populations experiencing higher rates of mental health issues, suicidality, and addiction. These negative impacts are primarily due to family rejection and the enduring systemic cultural oppression, discrimination and stigma that still exist within our society. When seeking mental health or substance use treatment Trans*/NB individuals are challenged to also contend with the interpersonal stigma among treatment providers and client populations as well as structural stigma due to transphobic...Read more institutional policies. To better understand how to provide Trans*/NB patients with compassionate, culturally competent client-centered treatment, this workshop is designed to 1) deepen your understanding about the developmental and cultural factors that differentiate this population from cisgender clients, 2) illuminate the ways trauma influences symptom etiology, and 3) and equip addiction counselors and clinicians with a framework for treatment through a gender affirming lens.

*The Williams Institute – Jan. 2017: Age of individuals who identify as transgender in the United States. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Identify three ways that institutional and familial cisnormativity, cisgender privilege, and internalized transphobia influence identity formation and contribute to maladaptive behaviors and mental health issues, including addiction.
  • Identify four developmental trajectories that are negatively impacted for TRANS*/NB adolescents in ways they are not for cisgender teens.
  • State three risk factors that result from minority stress experienced by TRANS*/NB individuals.
  • 4. Describe two examples of how a clinician's biases and privilege may influence their assessment with a transgender client.

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Live Interactive Webinar

09:00 AM PDT - 10:30 AM PDT

Register for this Webinar
EARN 1.5 CE Credit Hours

About the speaker

Agenda

Outline 

  • Speaker Introduction
  • Gender
    as a Cultural Construct: Where Trauma Originates & Why it Perpetuates
  • Overview
    of Gender Identity Development: Trauma Through the TRANS*/NB Life Span
  • How
    Heteronormativity and CIS genderism Leads to Minority Stress and Increased Risk
    Factors for Addictive Behaviors
  • Statistics
    on Gender Diverse Population, Bullying, Suicidality, Alcohol and Substance
    Abuse
  • What it
    Means to Provide Treatment Through a Gender Affirming Lens: Self-Analysis -
    Checking your Passing Privilege and Internalized Bias

CE Information - Earn 1.5 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

American Psychological Association
CE Learning Systems, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
CE Learning Systems SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0060.
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
CE Learning Systems, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
CE Learning Systems dba CE-Credit.com & AddictionCounselorCE.com is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0016.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) to earn CE credits.

Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE-Go process, please contact CE-Go at 888-498-5578 or by email at support@ce-go.com Please Note: Emails for this event will come from "support@ce-go.com".

Please make sure to check your spam/junk folder in case those emails get "stuck". We'd also suggest "whitelisting" support@ce-go.com. This tells your email client that you know this sender and trust them, which will keep emails from this contact at the top of your inbox and out of the junk folder.