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Title: Affirmative Counseling With LGBTQI+ People
Title: Affirming Counseling Practice with Queer People of Color: From Margins to Center
Presenters: Adrienne N. Erby, PhD and Christian D. Chan, PhD
Description: Within the diverse LGBTQ+ community, queer people of color (QPOC) represent a variety of gender, affectional and cultural identities and experiences. Intersectionality offers a unique lens for understanding multiple minority identities, cultural strengths and resilience. Using intersectionality as a conceptual framework, the presenters will review current research, share personal and professional reflections from the field and identify culturally relevant affirming counseling practices with QPOC.
Title: An Affirmative Approach in Evaluating and Recommending Candidates for Gender Transition
Presenter: Varunee Faii Sangganjanavanich, PhD
Description: This session provides: (1) an overview of gender dysphoria and gender transition; (2) strategies on affirmative clinical evaluation of gender dysphoria; and (3) affirmative clinical assessment and recommendations for clients pursuing social and medical transition. Examples of clinical management and a letter of recommendation for gender transition are provided. Practical considerations for affirmative practice, including ethics and cultural diversity, are discussed.
Title: An Exploration to Inform Clinical Practice: Examining Mental Health Care Experiences of Trans Service Members and Veterans
Authors: Megan J. Doughty Shaine, Deanna N. Cor, Andrew J. Campbell, and Abbey L. McAlister
Description: Mental Health Care Experiences of Trans Service Members and Veterans: A Mixed-Methods Study (Shane et al., 2021) explores the mental health care experiences of trans service members for the purpose of identifying training and practice recommendations for mental health providers. This study examines experiences with military and nonmilitary providers with a focus on stigma and barriers to care. Stigmatization significantly contributes to psychological distress for trans service members and veterans. Furthermore, trans service members and veterans experience high rates of depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress, suicide, and military sexual trauma. The authors conducted semistructured interviews with 10 participants. This CE provides professional counselors with information to better understand the lived experiences of trans service members and veterans and research findings to inform how to better serve these individuals.
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Title: Casebook for Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons and Their Families
Title: De Opresso Liber, Part II: Counseling and Advocating for Trans* Military Service Members During Uncertain Times
Presenters: Deanna N. Cor, PhD and Megan J. Doughty Shaine, PhD
Description: Following up on a presentation at the 2017 ACA Annual Conference and Expo, this educational session will provide attendees with contextually informed strategies for working with and advocating for trans- military service members and veterans during an uncertain time. In 2016 the Pentagon ended the ban on trans-people serving openly in the U.S. military—yet recent moves by the Trump Administration leave trans-service members feeling uncertain and fearful about their future. All counselors must be prepared for those service members, in the face of this uncertainty, to continue to seek services outside of the military. The authors will review background information in the context of the current political environment, followed by two case studies, based on original qualitative interviews with trans-military service members. They will then lead audience members in a workshop-style, small-group activity in which they will apply the information presented to the presented cases.
Title: Developing Competence in Working With LBGTQI+ Communities: Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action
Authors: Misty M. Ginicola, PhD; Joel M. Filmore, EdD; and Cheri Smith, PhD
Description: The chapter will assist counselors and other mental health professionals in gaining competence in working with LGBTQI+ clients.
Title: Group Counseling With LGBTQI Persons
Title: Identity Development of South Asian Same-Sex Attracted Women: Implications for Counseling
Presenter: Surinder Bal, PhD
Description: Asians are the fastest growing minority population in the USA; their population is projected to double to eight percent by 2050 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). South Asians comprise approximately a third of this population. By inference then, the South Asian LGBTQ population will also become a significant minority in the larger LGBTQ population. South Asian cultural values and beliefs significantly influence sexual identity development for both first- and second-generation same-sex attracted women, leading to unique experiences of discrimination and marginalization. Counselors working with this population must, therefore, sensitively incorporate these cultural factors for effective treatment planning and to avoid further harm by unintentionally reinforcing existing experiences of injustice and oppression.
Title: If You See Something, Say Something: Responding to Student and Supervisee Microaggressions
Presenters: Anita A. Neuer Colburn, PhD; John Marszalek, PhD; Kevin Snow, PhD; and Mary Aab
Description: Counselor educators and supervisors train students and supervisees to become professional, ethical and competent counselors. However, some trainees are adamantly against working with LGBT people, some are insensitive about their language, and others don’t understand the inappropriate nature of their jokes. In this panel discussion LGBTQQIA counselor educators and supervisors discuss their own responses to slanderous speech, microaggressions, and overt ridicule regarding LGBTQQIA persons by students and supervisees. We will talk about our own emotional reactions and how they’ve changed over time, along with helpful and unhelpful responses to students/supervisees based on their own developmental level. Each panelist will briefly discuss one aspect of their experience, and we will then facilitate a discussion with attendees around best practices for managing emotional reactions while still offering appropriate responses to students and supervisees.