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Cultural Competence 101 with LGB, Non-Binary, and Transgender Clients

Virtual
1 CE Hour
Cultural Competency
Free

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Description

This course will focus on working with LGBTQ clients, addressing mental health issues and the impact of discrimination, exploring significant social and historical issues in the medical/mental health profession, and discussing best practices. The course will briefly touch on the experience of spouses/partners, and parents of LGBTQ people and explore the lexicon of LGBTQ terminology.

Target Audience
  • Social Worker
  • Psychologist
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Counselor
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the difference between transgender and non-binary individuals.
  • List three issues that face spouses when their spouse comes out as LGBTQ.
  • Explain historical factors that have negatively impacted the relationship between mental health providers and LGBTQ people.
  • Identify societal challenges LGBTQ people face that negatively impact their health and well-being.
  • Understand the lexicon of LGBTQ terminology and provide culturally sensitive therapy to individuals, couples, and families.
Introductory
Cultural Competency
Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, 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. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credits.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Psychologist

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Psychologists (APA) Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 Psychologist contact hours. The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Counselors: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY MI: No CE requirements The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY MI: No CE requirement The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals: AK, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (outstate held)*, OK, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY MA / MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review. The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY

  • If the activity is held live in the state of NY, then direct addictions board is required, ie: NAADAC. If the activity is held outside NY, is virtual, enduring or remote, it is considered “outstate” and this reciprocity applies.
Marriage & Family Therapist

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Cultural Competency

Counselor

The Louisiana Counseling Association is approved by the Louisiana Licensed Professional Board of Examiners to offer continuing education clock hours. This presentation has been reviewed and has been approved for 1 CE clock hours for Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Dr. Davina Kotulski

Davina Kotulski Ph.D.is a licensed psychologist, life coach, spiritual counselor, award-winning author and speaker, and nationally known LGBT rights leader. Dr. Kotulski received the Saints Alive award from the Metropolitan Community Church for her national leadership in the marriage equality movement and for her seminal book Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage, Advocate Books, 2004.

In 2018, she played a psychologist on Please Understand Me, a Sarah Silverman production, where comedians hash out the problems of their fake relationship with a real therapist. Her book It’s Never Too Late to Be Your Self: Follow Your Inner Compass and Take Back Your Life won the Nautilus Silver Award for Self-Help in 2018, was a finalist in the International Book Awards for Inspirational Self Help in 2019 and a Finalist in Motivational Self-Help in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Her newest book The Manna Paradigm Shift: Creating the Consciousness of Abundance and Freedom was released in 2021.

She lives in Los Angeles and has a therapy and international coaching practice. She facilitates spiritual and psychological self-empowerment webinars and workshops around the country.

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