Helping Families to Support their LGBT Children (1 Credit Hour)
Program Summary: This course describes a family-oriented approach to services and care for families with LGBT children and adolescents. It provides information about when children begin to identify as LGBT, describes the relationship between rejecting behaviors from families and health risks for LGBT children, and it provides seven practical approaches to help practitioners work with families with LGBT children.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Reading: A Practitioner’s Resource Guide: Helping Families Support Their LGBT Children
Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Find the reading at: https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/PEP14-LGBTKIDS.pdf
Program Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by describing a family oriented approach to services for and care for families with LGBT children.
Learning Objectives: Define basic terms and facts related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Describe the relationship between rejecting behaviors from families and the health risks for LGBT children. Identify practical approaches to help practitioners work with families with LGBT children.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
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.