Working with Gender Diverse Children
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
6:00pm to 7:30pm
LIVE WEBINAR
Presenter: Acey Mercer, LMSW
NASW Members: Free | Non-Members: $30
This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists
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Date: Wednesday, 13, 2020
Presenter: Acey Mercer, LMSW
NASW Member Fee: Free
Non-Member Fee: $30
Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Workshop Description
Social workers are aware that not everyone follows a linear pathway to gender identity formation. Individuals may experience a progression through several stages of gender awareness, exploration, expression and identity. Attendees will receive an overview of sexual identity and gender expression of gender diverse children. Case exploration will be used to illustrate differences between sexual orientation, gender identity and the developmental process children experience. This workshop frames transgender emergence as a normative process of identity development and challenges the view that gender variance is pathological. Clinical interventions that support these views are explored.
Learning Objectives
After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify the therapeutic needs of transgender and gender diverse children
- Evaluate the value of effective affirmative therapeutic tools used to assess transgender and gender diverse children
- Apply clinical interventions that affirm and support transgender and gender diverse children.
- Apply affirmative therapeutic interventions to support parents/caregivers of transgender and gender diverse children
This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours.
NASW-NYS 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 social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), and licensed marriage and family therapists. (Provider ID #MFT-0037)
Acey A. Mercer, LMSW is a graduate of the University at Albany School of Social Welfare, where he obtained his Master’s in Social Work. Prior to graduate school Acey studied at Radboud Universiteit in the Netherlands where his academic focus was in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Acey is currently Practice Manager and a therapist at Choices Counseling & Consulting in Albany, NY. He works with adults, youth, and their families as they navigate questions and challenges related to the emotional, social, legal and medical aspects of gender transition. Acey’s clinical lens gives a strong compliment to the professional education services he delivers as Senior Consultant of the Training Institute for Gender, Relationships, Identity, and Sexuality (TIGRIS). Acey specializes in providing clinical training and policy development as it relates to best serving transgender and nonbinary populations in medical, mental health and educational institutions.
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NASW-NYS Member | $0.00 |
NASW (Non-NYS) Member | $20.00 |
Non-Member | $30.00 |
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