TransYouth Care Comprehensive Training Course
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Educational Goal
This symposium explains the clinical needs of transgender youth, ranging from young children, adolescents, to young adults. Topics include but are not limited to:
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• The history of the provision of gender-affirming medical and mental health care
- • Development of gender identity and how one’s relationship with being transgender can evolve over time
- • Evaluating the role of distress in the process of affirmation
- • Considering affirmation as a compassionate intervention
- • Current understanding of best practices re: medical and mental health support for trans youth
- • Puberty development and the role of pubertal blockers
- • Adolescent brain development and an overview of gender-affirming hormones
- • How gender dysphoria is experienced and its impact on development, particularly on the psychosocial well-being of trans adolescents
- • Understanding and reframing the role of gender dysphoria and how dysphoria may present clinically
- • Parent/guardian/caregiver emotional process and the role of their support for their youth
- • Evaluating the impact of the historical “gate-keeper” model of trans care
- • The process of writing letters of recommendation for needed gender-affirming medical interventions
Description
TransYouth Care Symposium is a comprehensive 14.5-hour training designed for providers & professionals interested in providing sensitive and competent mental health and medical care for gender-diverse children, transgender youth and young adults. Parents, guardians, and caregivers are also welcome to attend and learn about the many facets of caring for transgender youth, including the parent/guardian/caregiver’s process, supporting the youth with dysphoria, and best practices needed to inform and guide their care.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD is an Adolescent Medicine physician specializing in the care of gender non-conforming children and transgender youth. Board-certified in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Dr. Olson-Kennedy has been providing medical intervention for transgender youth and young adults, including puberty suppression and cross-sex hormones, for the past 17 years and is considered a national expert in this area. She is the Medical Director of The Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, the largest transgender youth clinic in the United States. Dr. Olson-Kennedy is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.
Darlene Tando, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, has a private practice in San Diego and has worked with transgender youth and adults since 2006. Darlene provides consultations and ongoing therapy for gender-expansive/transgender children, adolescents, and adults. Darlene is a proponent of the Informed Consent model and believes the individual is the “expert” on one’s gender identity. She believes it is her role to support the individual and family to assist in making one’s journey easier. Darlene is the author of the book “The Conscious Parent’s Guide to Gender Identity: A Mindful Approach to Embracing Your Child’s Authentic Self.”
Dr. Aydin Olson-Kennedy (he/him) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than fifteen years of experience delivering mental health support to transgender and non-binary communities. His therapeutic approach and educational methods are guided by anti-oppressive critical theories focusing on intersectionality, power dynamics, and oppressive systems. Dr. Olson-Kennedy specializes in providing therapeutic support and psychoeducation to parents, caregivers, and guardians of trans and non-binary individuals across all age groups. Central to his practice is exploring the experiences and impact of gender dysphoria outside the diagnostic framework of the DSM-V.
Financially Sponsored By
- Trans Youth Care