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LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Disparities and Minority Stress: Clinical Implications and Interventions

Virtual
1.5 CE Hour
Clinical
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$18.75
SAIGE Non-Member
$26.25

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Description

In this presentation, participants will learn about the mental health disparities that exist for LGBTQIA+ individuals. We will discuss how these disparities can be understood in the context of the minority stress model. Finally, clinical implications and affirmative interventions will be presented. 

Target Audience
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • • Psychologist
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to teach participants about LGBTQIA+ mental health disparities resulting from minority stress.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Identify 3-5 mental health disparities that exist for LGBTQIA+ individuals.

  • Describe the minority stress model and how it is used to understand the mental health disparities.

  • Identify 3-5 ways to use understanding about the minority stress model to provide LGBTQIA+ affirmative care.

References

  • DeBord, K.A., Fischer, A.R., Bieschke, K.J., & Perez, R.M. (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Counseling and Psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

  • Ginicola, M.M., Smith, C., & Filmore, J.M. (Eds). (2017). Affirmative Counseling with LGBTQI+ People. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.

  • Matsuno, E. & Israel, T. (2018). Psychological interventions promoting resilience among transgender individuals: Transgender resilience intervention model (TRIM). The Counseling Psychologist, 46(5), 632-655.

  • Meyer, I.H. (2003). Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence. Psychological Bulletin, 129(5), 674-697.

  • Mustanski, B., Garofalo, R., & Emerson, E. (2010). Mental health disorders, psychological distress, and suicidality in a diverse sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths. American Journal of Public Health, 100(12), 2426-2432.

  • Vargas, S., Asarnow, J.R., Zullo, L., Goldston, D., & Miranda, J.M. (2019). Suicide, self-harm, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) youth: Tips for therapists. ASAP Center, “Partner in NCSN” product.

Intermediate
Clinical
Counselor

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is a CAMFT-approved continuing education provider, provider #1000101.

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 1.5 Clinical continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

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.

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: Counseling Services

Psychologist

Pending approval.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by SAIGE (Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities). There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Jessica Stahl, PhD, LP

Dr. Jessica Stahl (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Counseling & Behavioral Health Department at William James College, in Newton, Massachusetts. In this position, she developed and directs a college-wide concentration in LGBTQIA+ Studies. This concentration trains future mental health providers to specialize in providing affirmative therapy for LGBTQIA+ people and their families. She earned her BA in Psychology from Middlebury College and her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Stahl completed her pre-doctoral internship at Counseling & Consulting Services at the University of Minnesota and her postdoctoral fellowship at Counseling & Health Services at Salem State College in Massachusetts. Her clinical interests center on career counseling and LGBTQIA+ individuals; she has a small private practice focused on these concerns

Ann Bruck, MA

After over 20 years in the health and wellness industry as a personal trainer and yoga instructor, Ann Bruck (she/they) returned to school when they recognized the importance of interweaving mental health into our lives. Ann earned an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in LGBTQIA+ studies from William James College in 2024. They are a Behavioral Health Therapist at Bridge Over Troubled Waters working with transitional-aged youth. Using their lived experiences as a queer person and having loved ones with substance use disorder, Ann aims to dismantle systems that have created barriers to all marginalized and oppressed individuals and communities by helping to destigmatize and decolonize the mental health world by providing culturally competent psychotherapy. 

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