Our transgender and non-binary youth are being hurt by overt discrimination, microaggressions, and health disparities. It’s a heartbreaking reality—society attacks them for just trying to be themselves.
If you’re not already seeing trans and non-binary young clients facing mental health issues, you will. Statistics show this is a growing population, with increasing cases of trauma, shame, fear, depression, and suicidal ideation. Your ability to provide gender-affirming mental health care could be lifesaving.
It’s critical that you’re prepared. An LGBTQ-friendly practice is not the same as one that is LGBTQ-informed. It’s time to become an ally.
This one-day training is your chance to de-pathologize treatment and reduce the vulnerabilities that can lead to significant negative outcomes for kids and teens. Susan Radzilowski, MSW, LMSW, ACSW, is a therapist, advocate, and ally whose decades of experience as a practicing clinician, along with her personal experience as a mother of a transgender child, make her uniquely qualified to teach you about working with trans and non-binary young clients.
From learning safe language, knowing the fine-points of assessment, gaining knowledge about hormones, navigating transitions, managing stigma, and beyond – Susan will cover all the bases so you not only understand these young people, but can truly advocate for them!
Watch this seminar and you’ll learn:
Tangible ways to create a welcoming clinical space
Interview strategies and questions for youth and parents
Essential strategies for support through transitions
Child-specific gender support plans for all settings
The most effective guidance and planning recommendations for parents
How to reconcile parental disagreements related to youth’s transition
主講專家介紹
Susan Radzilowski，MSW，ACSW，LMSW，心理健康和教育環境執業 30 多年，並持有性別認同和臨床問題證書。她在密歇根州有私人診所，並且是密歇根大學和韋恩州立大學社會工作學院兼職教師。Susan 為密歇根衛生與公共服務部、NASW、密歇根州立大學、密歇根醫學院、韋恩州立大學、密歇根大學、當地學區和 PESI, Inc. 就跨性別青年工作相關問題提供諮詢和培訓。她為心理健康提供者提供每月一次的免費在線兒科性別諮詢小組。Susan 發表了多篇關於為跨性別青年提供社會工作服務的臨床和倫理問題的文章，並且是新千年中十分之一的教師（信標出版社）的特約作者。她是 GLSEN SE Michigan Chapter（發音為 glisten；前身為 Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network）的創始聯席主席；是 GLSEN 國家諮詢委員會的前任成員；自 2010 年以來一直是 NASW-Michigan Chapter Ethics Committee 的成員。Susan是一名變性成人的父母，她於 2005 年出櫃，當時年僅 15 歲。她作為變性青年父母的經歷促使她轉變了自己的職業重心與跨性別青年和設施以及培訓專業人員合作，以改善獲得稱職的、富有同情心的護理的機會
