Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth (3 credit hours)

Program Summary:   This course explores current research and evidence-based practices for supporting and affirming LGBTQI+ youth.  The course describes behavioral health concerns and stressors for gender diverse youth and offers client-centered approaches for youth and their families.  The course highlights the importance of ensuring access to gender-supportive and gender-affirming care while emphasizing the harms of SOGI change efforts.

This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.  

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Course Reading:  Moving Beyond Change Efforts:  Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth- Sections 2 and 3

Publisher:  SAMHSA

Course Objectives:  To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring best practices for supporting and affirming gender-diverse youth.

Learning Objectives:  Describe behavioral health concerns and stressors for gender diverse youth. Identify client-centered approaches for youth and their families.  Describe the process of gender affirmation and the importance of ensuring access to gender-affirming care.

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1: The number of people in the United States who feel safe or comfortable to self-identify as a sexual minority is
 
 
2: The increase in openly identifying as a sexual minority suggests that
 
 
3: The external way a person communicates their gender, such as with clothing, hair, mannerisms, activities, or social roles describes
 
 
 
4: It is now understood that gender diversity is
 
 
 
5: Processes of gender-related identity development among transgender and other gender-diverse populations are
 
 
 
 
6: A significant body of research demonstrates that affirming a child's current gender identity and gender expression, as well as supporting their process of understanding more about their identity, is beneficial for
 
 
 
 
7: An important area of focus for behavioral health providers who work with transgender and gender-diverse adolescents is
 
 
 
 
8: Compared to cisgender children, gender-diverse children appear to have elevated rates of mental health concerns, including
 
 
 
 
9: The use of a transgender or gender-diverse adolescent's chosen- rather than given- name has been linked to ___________ depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior.
 
 
10: Up to ___________ of all youth experiencing homeless and housing instability are youth of diverse sexual orientation and gender.
 
 
 
 
11: Research shows that _______________ are more likely to experience exclusionary discipline at school.
 
 
12: In the most recent National School Climate Survey of LGBTQ+ youth, GLSEN found that __________ felt unsafe.
 
 
 
 
13: Which school policies are associated with improved health and well-being of students of diverse sexual orientation and/or gender identity?
 
 
 
 
14: Affirmative approaches recognize that when behavioral health issues exist, they often
 
 
15: Therapeutic providers support LGBTQI+ youth in age-appropriate tasks, including all of the following EXCEPT:
 
 
 
 
16: Behavioral health providers should obtain informed consent with all parties- ________- minors for treatment.
 
 
17: Changing one's name is an example of
 
 
18: SOGI change efforts are ____________ practices that ___________ be provided to children or adolescents.
 
 
19: Which of the following key policy areas have been identified by the federal government, researchers, and advocates?
 
 
 
 
 
 
20: Available research indicates SOGI change efforts
 
 
 
 

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Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 3 cultural competence continuing education credits.

Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course.  She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience.  She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City.  She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work.  The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.

Course Created: April 7, 2023
Filed under: Children, Cultural Competence, LGBTQ+