The Essential Guide to Gender Diversity in Children and Adolescents: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
Led by Sarah Burgamy, Psy.D.
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A licensed clinical psychologist and the founder of PhoenixRISE, Sarah Burgamy, Psy.D. focuses on identity development, sexual minority competency, and transgender and gender diverse issues with children, adolescents, and adults. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Graduate School of Professional Psychology at the University of Denver. Dr. Burgamy has served on the Board of Directors for the Colorado Psychological Association (CPA) since 2008 and as former Chair of the Society for the Advancement of Multiculturalism and Diversity (SAMD), a division of the CPA.
Sarah has provided presentations and trainings in healthcare settings and the public community sector for organizations. Sarah has previously instructed courses as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Denver in the Psy.D. program and the International Disaster Psychology Master’s program focused on areas of development and culture, LGBTIQQ cultural competency, and cross-cultural analysis.
Module 1: The Gender Regime - Navigating “Gender-Land”
Gender includes gender assigned at birth, gender identity, and gender expression. Perhaps one of the strongest cultural categorizations, gender is both socially defined and, as research suggests, intrinsically experienced. This module focuses on how to understand, conceptualize, and navigate a shifting societal gender landscape. We will look at the socio-cultural roots of the category of gender, as anthropologically identified, and further define how it relates to sex assigned at birth, human development (cognitive and physical), and generational influences -- most of which, we as clinicians feel ill-prepared to address.
Module 2: Alphabet Soup & the Gender Collision Course
Terminology: giving something a name is meant to help the human brain understand, synthesize, relate, and contextualize information. Specifically, acronyms are uniquely designed to help us simplify complex names and terms to better navigate our social sphere. What are we to do when an acronym of identity becomes unwieldy and a veritable “alphabet soup?!” This module will begin to identify common terms in gender identity, sexual orientation, and considerations of sex assigned at birth.
Module 3: Who Will I Be When I Grow Up? - Understanding Developmental Implications in Gender Diversity
“Isn’t that child too young to know who they are?” … “When I was a teenager, I tried on different identities like I was trying on new hairstyles.” … “When I think about myself at 20, all I can think is how much better I know myself now.” Identity development is necessarily a process over time. However, often, in gender identity-related work with children and adolescents, the advantage of knowing something over time can be truncated by presenting gender-related distress, clinically known as gender dysphoria.
Module 4: Playing by the “Rules” - Guidelines, Standards of Care, and Beyond
“Help! Isn’t there an instruction manual for this?!”
Evidence-based practices (EBPs) have come to be more than benchmarks of quality care. In many instances, EBPs are required in healthcare workplace settings or by managed care. This module focuses on current guidelines for practice and internationally established standards of care for gender-diverse people. Additionally, we will focus on where we lack the breadth of research and possible clinical conundrums in working with minors.
Module 5: Kids Come with Adults 😱 - Ensuring Culturally Competent Gender-Related Care in Family Systems
Social creatures by nature, and dependent on adults as minors, children and adolescents in contemporary societies very necessarily come to treatment with pivotal caregiving adults. Whether parents or caregivers designated by the state, gender-diverse children and adolescents will benefit from a provider who can successfully and skillfully navigate complex relational considerations and interactions without ostracizing caregiving adult figures. This module will examine common considerations of family systems of gender-diverse youth, as well as possible conflicts, barriers, or blockades in understanding.
- Differentiate gender, gender identity and gender expression
- Indicate the limitations of the binary conceptualization of gender as a human identity category
- Summarize contemporary model of gender identification in youth
- Identify conceptually different aspects of human identity - gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, sex assigned at birth, relational orientation and sexuality - which are commonly conflated in the acronym LGBTQI+
- Describe clinical conundrums of navigating gender affirming healthcare in the midst of cognitive and physical development
- Name prevailing guidelines for practice - American Psychological Association Guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people, 2015
- Explain the International Standards of Care - World Professional Association for Transgender Health, Standards of Care, version 7
- Cite evolving research in the arena of implications for gender affirming health care
- Discuss current controversies pertaining to gender competent care for developing children and adolescents
This course is held online via pre-recorded teaching content and live call recordings. The agenda for this online course is below.
Session 1: The Gender Regime - Navigating “Gender-Land” - 1.5 CEs
1.5 Hours recorded live call with Sarah + 1 Hour Teaching with Sarah
Session 2: Alphabet Soup & the Gender Collision Course - 1.5 CEs
1.5 Hours recording live call with Sarah + 1 Hour Teaching with Sarah
Session 3: Who Will I Be When I Grow Up? - Understanding Developmental Implications in Gender Diversity - 1.5 CEs
1.5 Hours recorded live call with Sarah + 1 Hour Teaching with Sarah
Session 4: Playing by the “Rules” - Guidelines, Standards of Care, and Beyond - 1.5 CEs
1.5 Hours recorded live call with Sarah + 1 Hour Teaching with Sarah
Session 5: Kids Come with Adults 😱 - Ensuring Culturally Competent Gender-Related Care in Family Systems - 1.5 CEs
1.5 Hours recorded live call with Sarah + 1 Hour Teaching with Sarah
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