Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth (4 credit hours)
Participants who complete this course will receive 4 continuing education clock hours. 2 of these clock hours are Ethics and 2 of these clock hours are Social and Cultural Competence
Program Summary: This course explores issues of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in youth. The course provides a scientific overview of the best clinical and therapeutic practices for sexual minority youth and promotes interventions that focus on acceptance, support, and affirmative care. The course includes position statements from the ACA and the NASW and offers a discussion of relevant ethical principles and standards.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice.
Course Reading #1:
https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/endingconversiontherapy_course_readings.pdf
Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth (SAMHSA)
The ACA Ethical Issues Related to Conversion or Reparative Therapy (American Counseling Association)
2nd Reading:
http://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yH3UsGQQmYI%3d&portalid=0
NASW National Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues Position Statement (NASW)
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to affirming LGBTQ youth and self-actualization.
Learning Objectives: Identify treatment goals for working with LGBTQ children and adolescents. Describe the role that parental attitudes and behavior play in LGBTQ youth’s adjustment. Describe the ways in which conversion therapy is not consistent with the principles of behavioral health professionals. Describe the ACA and NASW positions on conversion therapy. Identify relevant ethical principles (NASW Code of Ethics and ACA Code of Ethics.)
Review our pre-reading study guide.
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 4 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.