Deb Coolhart – LGBTQ Youth

It can be difficult to work with families and youth, as it requires a balance of seemingly different viewpoints. It is rewarding to be able to help families understand and make these changes as a clinician.

 Deb Coolhart – LGBTQ Youth

Coming Into an LGBTQ Identity and coming out to others

• Identity development
• Homo intracellularis-bi-trans-Phobia
• The decision to go out
• Fears about the future out process
• Youths’ safety

Clinical Considerations

• Intervening in depression, shame, self-Harmful behaviors and suicidality
• A solution to anxiety
• Transgender approach compared to LGBQ
• Family acceptance is important
• Intersections between cultural identities
• Psychotherapeutic approaches and their risks: Research limitations

There are differences within the LGBTQ Spectrum

• Lesbian Youth
  • Confronting Invisibility
  • Encourage positive self-talk-Intimacy
• Gay Youth
  • Discussion of gender roles expectations
  • Sexual health
  • Substance abuse
• Bisexual Youth
  • Bisexuality can be understood as a legitimate identity
  • Harmfulness of bisexual extermination
• Transgender Youth
  • Assessment of the need/desire to transition gender
  • Exploring options for gender expression
• Questioning Youth
  • Exploration and fluidity require space
  • Self-care: How to reduce pressure-Label

Working with Families

• Coming Out
• Creating space for parents’ reactions and resistance
• Supporting youths’ LGBTQ Identity
• Supporting parents to achieve greater acceptance and support
• Navigating religious beliefs
• Supporting parents’ own process of coming out
• Siblings and extended family members are taken care of
• Facilitating support networks

LGBTQ-Affirmative School Environments

• Importance of safe schools for youths’ well-being
• Assisting parents in school advocacy
• Encourage youth to become self-sufficient-Advocate
• How to deal with bullying and maltreatment
• Considerations for transgender youth

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Description:

The recent developments in the LGBTQ For difficult issues such the choice of bathroom for transgender persons, the increased suicide rate among youth, and the Pulse tragedy at nightclubs, community has been the focus of national attention. It’s no wonder that youth in our communities are afraid to share their identities.

How can you help a patient as a physician? LGBTQ Youth who aren’t supported by their parents. As a clinician, how do you suggest treatment to a transgender teenager who wants to delay puberty? These are the questions that clinicians have to wrestle with.

Assist expert and author Deb CoolhartLMFT, Ph.D. LGBTQ youth. Deb We will demonstrate you how to use clinical strategies to:

• Coming out
• Bullying
• Suicide, suicide, anxiety, shame and depression.-Doing harm
• Healthy choices
• School success
• There are many options for supporting gender transition

It can be difficult to work with families and youth, as it requires a balance of seemingly different viewpoints. It is rewarding to be able to help families understand and make these changes as a clinician.

Help LGBTQ kids and adolescents know that it’s their right to be themselves!