Date: 8/26/24 8:45am-2pm (EST) Cost: $125 Instructor: Jennifer Recko M.S. Ed., LPCC-S & Anna Schwartz, M.Ed., LPCC-S; Expert Guest Speaker
CE Credit Hours: 5 ethics
Training Description: Human sexuality and gender expression are ever changing and fluid components of all human beings. In the mental health field, it is imperative that practitioners understand the scope of these identity characteristics and how they impact mental health and treatment. This live webinar aims to present human sexuality and affirmative care as a foundational skill for all practitioners regardless of client population.
Goals:
- How to provide affirmative and inclusive mental health treatment
- Increase understanding of human sexuality terms and definitions
- Gain awareness of held biases and assumptions and how to minimize their impact on treatment
- Gain awareness of systemic impact upon these communities
- Increase understanding of ethical behavior/decision making when working with individuals in these communities.
- Increase ability to guide clients and their support systems through conflict and change associated with sexual, gender, and affectional identity.
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to differentiate and define sexual orientation, gender, sex, and affectional orientation.
- Participants will be able to define affirmative care and utilize treatment modalities that demonstrate affirmative and inclusive care.
- Participants will gain an understanding of how biases and assumptions impact clients (within the therapeutic relationship, and in everyday life)
- Participants will be able to identify and demonstrate ethical decision-making when providing affirmative care.
- Participants will be able to manage difficult situations related to support system hesitancy and fear regarding sexual, gender, and affectional identity.
Workshop Outline:
8:45 – 9am – Introductions and Overview
9-9:45am - Affirmative Care
9:45-10:30am – Gender + Sexuality
10:30-10:45am - Allyship
10:45 – 11am – Break
11-12pm – Guest speaker from Kaleidoscope Youth Center
12-12:45pm – Sexual Communities
12:45-1:30pm - Clinical Challenges + Recommendations
1:30-1:45pm – Time to practice
1:45-2pm – Wrap Up
*All training content is co-facilitated unless otherwise specified.
Level: Intermediate
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc. has been approved as a CE provider by the Ohio Psychological Association (#311358292), the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board (RCS060502), and as a NBCC ACEPTM No. 7265.
- Teacher: Jennifer Recko
- Teacher: Anna Schwartz
