Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents

Live Online Workshop

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
9:30am - 12:30pm ET

NYSED and ASWB/ACE Approved for 3 CE contact hours

This workshop aims to teach providers how to differentiate between gender identity, gender expression, and assigned sex at birth. The will also provide learners the opportunity to learn about the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria and the treatment of gender dysphoria including psychosocial treatment recommendations as well as medical interventions. Medical interventions that will be included are puberty blockers, gender affirming hormones including testosterone and estrogen, and gender affirming surgeries. In addition, guidelines for referrals in line with the World Profession Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care Version 7 will be reviewed. Presenters will also provide clinical training on engaging family members of gender expansive youth, the importance of family acceptance, and parental processes and dilemmas in supporting gender expansive youth.

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Learn the difference between assigned sex at birth, gender identity, and gender expression.
2. Understand how to diagnose for gender dysphoria in children and adolescents.
3. Understand the medical intervention that are available to youth with gender dysphoria.
4. Learn how to engage and support family members of gender expansive youth.

Samantha Busa, PsyD

Samantha Busa, PsyD, is the clinical director of the Gender and Sexuality Service and Clinical Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Child Study Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone. Dr. Busa follows a gender-affirmative model of care and provides gender assessments for transitional care working with children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. Dr. Busa also conducts individual and group therapy as part of the Anita Saltz Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders. Specifically, she treats patients who have anxiety disorders, mood disorders, tics and Tourette disorder, trichotillomania and body-focused repetitive behaviors, and school refusal using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and habit reversal training. In addition to clinical care, Dr. Busa is committed to teaching and training future mental health workers. She teaches undergraduate students at New York University, as well as psychology interns, psychology externs, and psychiatry fellows at the Child Study Center. She also provides clinical supervision to predoctoral psychology interns, externs, and postdoctoral fellows.; PhD Postdoctoral Fellow.

Elizabeth Glaeser, PhD

Dr. Elizabeth Glaeser is a postdoctoral fellow within the Anxiety and Mood Disorder Service and the Gender and Sexuality Service at NYU Langone Child Study Center. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at NYC Health and Hospitals Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, focusing on crisis management and care for children and adults. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University in the Counseling PhD program. Her research focused on antiracism education for allies and accomplices and multicultural and social justice interventions in mental health systems, specifically with the gender-expansive community. She has worked in LGTBQ mental health for 12 years and worked at The Ackerman Institute’s Gender & Family Project from 2014 – 2020. In addition, she completed clinical practicum experiences at the Central New York Psychiatric Center, Office of Mental Health New York State Transgender Identity Program, Manhattan Veterans Affairs Hospital, and college and community settings. Her work has been featured in journals, textbooks of cultural humility, and guides on how to support and empower transgender individuals and address racial microaggressions. She previously worked in intervention development and implementation, and dissemination at NYU Child Study Center.

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General Admission: $60.00

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before July 20 (by midnight): full refund

• Refund requests made on or before July 22 (by midnight): 50% refund

• Refund requests made on or after July 26: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 3 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

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