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How to Support Parents with Kids on the Gender Spectrum: Non-Binary, Transgender, Genderqueer, and Gender Variant Children
Recorded on April 25, 2022
On Demand Education
Free
1 CE Hour
Clinical, Cultural Competency
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Description

This course is focused on helping clinicians provide emotional support to parents with transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer children. This course will help clinicians provide resources to parents and assist them in coping with their feelings and address challenges related to caring for a transgender and nonbinary child. It will help clinicians support parents in moving through their own coming out process and guide parents in advocating for their transgender and non-binary child. It will help clinicians and parents understand the basic lexicon of LGBTIQ2NB terminology and understand concepts like dead-naming, misgendering, and the correct use of pronouns. This course will also focus on the high-risk mental health challenges transgender and non-binary kids experience

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

Participants will gain competency in working with parents of nonbinary, transgender, and genderqueer children.

Learning Objectives

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

  1. Articulate 3 major mental health challenges experienced by transgender and non-binary kids
  2. Define the basic lexicon of LGBTIQ2NB terminology
  3. List the 6 stages of coming out
  4. Name 4 LGBTIQNB resources for parents
  5. Explain dead-naming and misgendering
  6. Utilize discussions of pronouns in all introductions with clients
CE Details
Introductory
Clinical
Cultural Competency

This live webinar has been approved for 1.0 CE clock hours by the Louisiana Counseling Association as authorized by the Louisiana Professional Counselor Licensing Board of Examiners.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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 mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

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. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

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: 03/31/2021 – 03/31/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credits. ASWB ACE credit is not available in NY and NJ.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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.

This workshop meets the requirements and has been approved for 1 hour for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists in Louisiana by the Louisiana Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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.

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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.
Dr. Davina Kotulski

Davina S. 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 was 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.
Dr. Kotulski has appeared on LA Today, Good Morning La La Land, and Wake Up to the Sound of Transformation with new thought leader, Michael Bernard Beckwith.

She has a therapy and international coaching practice. She facilitates spiritual and psychological selfempowerment webinars and workshops around the country.

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