Prior to European colonization, 2-SQT communities were celebrated and venerated in Indigenous and many communities worldwide. Despite this critical historical context, 2-SQT communities in the US and worldwide continue to be targeted politically and discriminated against daily. This undue stress has been linked to higher, and now rising rates of suicide among 2-SQT communities. For example, The Trevor Project (2022) reported that 45% of 2-SQT youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year and nearly 1 in 5 transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide. Furthermore, rates of suicide attempts were generally higher among 2-SQT youth of colour, and particularly among Native/Indigenous 2-SQT youth (The Trevor Project, 2022). Mental health providers have a unique responsibility in mitigating suicidal risk among 2-SQT communities, however, are often operating in a system of gatekeeping that can further hinder the health and well-being of 2-SQT communities. This training will review clinical applications for providing affirming support and language, discuss why intersectionality and anti-racism matters as we employ 2-SQT affirming models of care, and learn how these culturally responsive clinical applications are critical to cultivating communities where 2SQT people can thrive.
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Introduction
Using 2-SQT Affirming Language
Intersectionality and 2-SQT Communities
Anti-Racism and 2-SQT Communities
Integrating Intersectionality and Anti-Racism in Support for 2-SQT Communities
Conclusion
This workshop was created to deepen the clinician’s understanding of how their own identities and cultural underpinnings affect their work consciously and unconsciously, and what are some strategic tools to use when needing to shift one’s practice to be more intentional and inclusive of those with marginalized identities. Join Dr. Thomas in developing a solid understanding of how intersectionality impacts LGBTQ+ clients and apply practical clinical tools to explore, validate and transform deep-seated inequities in clinical practice. We will combine clinical knowledge, skills and techniques and create for an anti-racist and anti-oppressionist framework to help support your practice but also your own health and well-being. The participant will walk away with an intentionally intra-inclusive framework used to help guide yourself in practice during this difficult time for all.
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Introduction
Intersectionality and Intra-inclusive Practice
Covering and Passing as a Survival in Social Environments
Creating Our Own Framework: Tools Needed to Formulate Affirming Practices
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Trans 101
Trauma in Trans Communities
The Triphasic Model of Trauma Treatment
Case Studies
Copyright : 24/05/2023Disabled people constitute 15% of the population globally and 26% of adults within the United States alone. Despite being one of the largest minoritized groups, disabled people are often overlooked and underserved within the field of mental health, given that ableism and sanism are ubiquitous in clinical practice. Disabled LGBTQ+ people are no exception. In this presentation, Dr. Iantaffi will provide a brief overview of the issues impacting disabled LGBTQ+ clients and clinicians and use the Disability Justice framework to offer some guiding principles that clinicians can apply to their own practice.
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Understanding models of disability
What are ableism and sanism?
The intersection of disability and LGBTQ+ issues
Disability Justice Principles
LGBTQ+ Clients of Colour confront multiple systems of social oppression, such as racism, cissexism, and heterosexism, which results in unique, intersectional stressors and compounding stress. These experiences are thought to contribute to high rates of mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Nevertheless, LGBTQ+ Clients of Colour have distinctive strengths that buffer the worst of societal oppression’s consequences. Due to bias, mental health and behavioural health settings have either neglected or ill-treated this community leading to further harm. Therefore, there remain opportunities within these environments for mental health practitioners and mental health systems to alleviate these toxic stressors and leverage LGBTQ+ Clients of Colour’s strengths to improve mental health outcomes. During this workshop, Hayden Dawes demonstrates how practitioners can identify these stressors while bolstering the client’s inner resources. The workshop will focus on key frameworks such as intersectionality and cultural humility with an overview of transdiagnostic dimensions and applications in working with LGBTQ+ People of Colour.
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Importance of racial identity to understanding sexual and gender orientation
Although knowledge on affirming therapy for sexual and gender diverse people has expanded in recent decades, clinician lack accurate knowledge about the diverse relationship styles of this population related to forms of consensual non-monogamies (including swinging, polyamory and open relationships). With rapidly expanding literature on CNM relationships within LGBTQIA+ populations, insights on the individual and relational strengths of this population and emerging best practices in CNM-affirming clinical work will be explored to identify, nurture, and integrate these resources for flourishing into practice with CNM sexual and gender diverse clients.
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Definitions, terms, & demographics
Mononormativity & CNM stigma
Positive psychology, strengths & thriving
Tools & strategies for CNM thriving
Copyright : 25/05/2023This workshop focuses on gay male sexual fluidity While sexual fluidity is emerging and becoming more prominent in both the academic and clinical realms, many health care professionals are still largely confused and unaware of some of the complexities and scenarios that exist among a population that does not fit neatly into the over-simplified understandings that traditionally exist around sexual orientation, sexual identity, sexual attraction and sexual pathology. Other than simply being “in the closet”, the presentation reviews some of the common scenarios and categories of men who fall into the emerging sexual classification of male sexual fluidity, who may identify as even straight or heteroflexible.
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Learn the difference between sexual orientation and erotic orientation
Recognize the wide variety of sexual expression amongst gay men
Intercourse vs. Outercourse
Copyright : 25/05/2023CBT, CFT, and DBT are prominent therapeutic approaches for the treatment of common mental health diagnoses, like depression, anxiety, and trauma. However, these approaches are often applied in ways that do not always consider the context of being an LGBTQ+ person. This presentation will cover the basic foundations of these modalities, review potential limitations of these approaches when working with LGBTQ+ people, and offer ways to consider the full intersectionality of LGBTQ+ people using these modalities.
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Definitions and Statistics
Prevalence and relevance
Growing Up and Living as Queer
Questions for Heterosexual People
Systems of Oppression
Applied CBT
Adapting CBT, DBT, and CFT Skills
Challenging Oppression
Challenging Discrimination
Psychotherapists often presume that most forms of deep healing can take place only after we support a client in establishing a sense of safety. However, insisting on establishing a sense of safety can be countertherapeutic and invalidating for clients who are members of marginalized groups. A reliance on feeling safe may set up an impossible expectation for our clients, namely, that they can—and should be able to—feel safe in a profoundly unsafe world. In place of the safety axiom, this workshop will propose engaging our clients, and particularly those from marginalized communities, in nurturing a sense of boundedness. I propose boundedness as a framework that is more culturally humble and allows us to support a client in sitting in the kinds of decidedly queer ambivalence, ambiguity, and uncertainty that are essential to growth, change, healing, and coming into relationship with our embodied selves.
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The Safety Axiom in Psychotherapy
Problems with the Discourse of Safety
The Therapeutic Situation as “Bounded Chaos”: From Safety to Boundedness
Strategies for Nurturing Boundedness
Tools for Building Embodied Awareness
What would happen if we thought of our work as helping clients imagine into the radical and transformative possibilities of their being and their relationships, rather than merely “resolving problems”? How might our work shift toward liberation and pleasure, rather than merely resolving distress and pain? In this session, we’ll learn how we can expand our imaginations as therapists—and help our clients dream of horizons beyond what queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz called the “prison house” of the here-and-now. You’ll discover how to:
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Gender- and sexual orientation-based violence at the hands of colonizers has been a lived experience for the Indigenous people of the North American continent since the invasion of 1492. Despite centuries of genocide and forced assimilation, a community of people now commonly referred to as Two-Spirit have survived.
This recording will examine the role of community in Two-Spirit survival narratives and offer interventions for working with Two-Spirit people and community in mental health, medical, substance abuse, social work, and school-based settings. You’ll learn new concepts, such as sexual sovereignty and erotic survivance as well as how to use culture as treatment and prevention.
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As a culture, we are starting to increase understanding of transgender people who fall within the gender binary (i.e., people who are assigned female/male at birth and who socially and/or medically transition to the other binary category). However, nonbinary people are often misunderstood, invalidated, and misgendered. As a result, they are often at higher risk for negative mental health outcomes when compared to binary trans people. Helping professionals often lack understanding of the unique experiences of nonbinary people, and therefore may add to the mistreatment of this population. This presentation will provide helping professionals with knowledge about the developmental process of growing into a nonbinary identity and strategies for supporting nonbinary people in their process of coming out and managing identity. Participants will learn how to support and advocate for nonbinary people in personal and professional relationships as well as the societal level.
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Identity Development
Coming Out and Identity Management
Strategies for Supporting Nonbinary People
Body dissatisfaction is a primary driver of eating disorders, and when eating disorders occur in marginalized individuals, related dynamics are increasingly complex. Marginalized people seeking professional help may find eating disorders services – which were constructed for cisgender, heterosexual, affluent, thin, able-bodied women – unequipped to provide intervention and treatment for their intersecting identities. This session focuses on practical interventions informed by social justice principles to ensure all individuals with eating disorders can access safe treatment options.
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In the last two years several hundred anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced into state legislatures across the United States, most of them targeting gay and transgender young people. Moreover, the American Library Association notes that nearly 2000 requests to remove books from libraries were made last year, the largest number ever reported, and most requests have targeted books with LGBTQ+ content. It’s no wonder that gay, lesbian and transgender young people feel especially threatened, unsupported, and victimized. Surveys find that the majority of ‘queer’ youth desire counselling services, putting therapists in an ideal position to help with these fears and anxieties. In this webinar, you will learn how you can help the LGBTQ+ young people in your practice, your schools and communities – and your own families.
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Introduction
The Scope of the Problem
How LGBTQ+ Youth are Impacted
Clinical Strategies with Youth
Clinical Strategies with Families
Impacting Schools and Community
Conclusion
Join Clinical Psychologist and author of The Queer Mental Health Workbook, Dr. Brendan Dunlop, to learn the unique stressors and causes of self-injury among LGBTQ+ people. Walk away feeling confident in knowing how to assess for and treat self-injurious behaviour with your LGBTQ+ clients in a way where they feel seen and understood.
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Definitions and Myth Busting
The Spectrum of Self-harm
Prevalence & Risk Groups
Theories
Functions
Example of Understanding
Rick Assessment
Working with self-harm: Impact on Staff
Working with self-harm: Self care
Copyright : 12/04/2023