VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Working with Families of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth
Working with Families of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth
August 22, 2025
6 CEs available
Transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) youth who experience rejection by their families are at increased risk for depression and suicide nationally. Reducing family rejection is central to suicide and poor mental health prevention for TGNB adolescents. The Transgender youth who were supported by parents to express their accurate gender identity showed similar mental health to non-transgender youth. Thus, it is critical to locate the barriers and potential resources for reducing family rejection for TGNB youth living in varied contexts, geographic, and social locations.
Why is This Important?
The training will provide clinicians with background literature on the TGNB youth and their families from systemic resilience, developmental, and attachment perspectives. Clinicians will be challenged to self-reflect on their own cisgender and heteronormative assumptions. One critical, relational practice, gender affirming cultural humility, for clinicians and parents of TGNB youth will be introduced as key to effective intervention. Finally, systemic assessment and interventions will be introduced through video and small group practice for cultivating new clinical skills to engage parents, siblings, and TGNB youth.
Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this workshop, attendees will be able to…
- Participants will be able to describe a systemic conceptualization of transgender and nonbinary youth mental health.
- Participants will be able to describe the parent-child dynamics common with transgender and nonbinary youth.
- Participants will be able to assess for parent-child dynamics with transgender and nonbinary youth.
- Participants will be able to reflexively assess their own growth areas for practice with transgender and nonbinary youth and their families.
- Participants will be able to describe parental gender affirming humility as a primary area for growth and skill building.
- Participants will be able to describe and implement new skills for systemic intervention with transgender and nonbinary youth and their families.
6 CEs available
Special Early Bird Price (offer valid until August 15, 2025)
$299
* After August 15, the price goes up to $399
Course Curriculum
Dr. Katie Heiden-Rootes is a professor in the department of Family and Community Medicine in the School of Medicine and has a dual appointment as an Assistant Vice President in the Division of Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement at Saint Louis University. Her scholarship is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Missouri Foundation for Health, and the National Science Foundation. Her scholarship focuses on two areas. First, the advancement of clinical training and research on the health of the LGBTQIA+ community and their families. And second, intersectional faculty equity and culture change within higher education. Dr. Heiden-Rootes co-founded the Queer & Trans Wellness Clinic @ SLU in the Center for Counseling and Family Therapy, a community-facing and accessible resource for mental health services. In her academic home, she teaches courses and lectures on human sexuality and gender, cultural humility, and qualitative research methods. Her work today is marked by the celebration of difference, engaging in difficult dialogue, and becoming comfortable in discomfort. Presenter has no conflicts of interest of commercial support to report.
The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.
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Working with Families of Transgender and Nonbinary Youth
Early Bird (enroll before August 15, 2025)
$299.00
6 CE's Available
Regular price
$399.00
- Workshop
- Video recordings (available for 365 days)
- Course Slides
- Evaluation
- Certificate (6 CE's)
