Expert in Child Abuse & Neglect Lecture Series
The CARES Institute’s Expert in Child Abuse and Neglect Lecture Series:
Gender Affirming Healthcare for Minors: Separating Signal from Noise
Intended audiences: This presentation is intended for child protection workers, law enforcement personnel, attorneys, physicians, nurses, mental health professionals (including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers of all levels, and licensed counselors), and all other disciplines not listed.
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Presentation Description:
This program is meant to both situate pediatric and adolescent gender dysphoria within cultural and medical contexts. In the first half of the program, the presentation aims to discuss the definition, nomenclature, and very brief history of gender dysphoria, as well as basic aspects of medical management. This will include induction of testosterone- and estrogen-medicated puberty and pubertal blockade. The second half of the program is less didactic and meant to situate gender dysphoria within current cultural and media-related contexts, with a focus on how individual positionality impacts perceptions of medically necessary care.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:
- Recall the definition and diagnostic criteria for both gender dysphoria in adolescents and adults and gender dysphoria in children
- Identify at least two reversible medical interventions for adolescents and young adults who experience gender dysphoria
- Apply at least two current, evidence-based professional guidelines for the management of gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults
- Explain the impact of positionality on care
- Discover how various lived experiences may impact perspectives on gender and sexuality
Dr R Claire Roden is an assistant professor of Pediatrics and the Director of Adolescent Gender and Sexual Health Services at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate education at Haverford College, where she majored in biology, with a minor in French and a concentration in Africana Studies. She graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA in 2013, followed by her pediatric residency at Cooper University Hospital outside Philadelphia in 2016, and her adolescent medicine fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH in 2019. Her academic and clinical interests include contraceptive care, sexually transmitted infection and HIV prevention, gender dysphoria in teenagers, eating disorders, and the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents with disabilities. In her spare time, she loves gardening, hiking, knitting, and spending time with her husband Matt, daughter Rosa, and family dog Bobo.
Agenda
- 9:30 AM Gender Dysphoria: The Signal and Noise
- 10:00 AM Gender Affirming Care
- 10:30 AM Break
- 10:40 AM Management of Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Young Adults
- 11:20 AM How to be Neutral
- 11:40 AM Q & A
- 12:10 PM End of Presentation
Requesting Assistance: If you require assistance with hearing or vision to make this conference accessible to you, please contact the office at (856) 566-6744 three (3) weeks prior to the conference.
Accreditation: Please contact the CARES Institute at (856) 566-6744 or [email protected] for information about continuing education credits.
*To receive CE credit for this training, you must have attended the entire conference and completed the evaluation. Upon completion of the evaluation form, you will receive an attendance certificate including CE information. Please note it may take up to 3 weeks to receive the certificate via email.
Psychologists: Rowan University CARES Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rowan University CARES Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Social Workers: Gender Affirming Healthcare for Minors: Separating Signal from Noise, Course #5304, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Rowan Medicine CARES Institute, a division of Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 10/03/2023 — 10/03/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2.5 clinical continuing education credits.
Attorneys: An application has been submitted to the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Physicians: An application has been submitted to the Medical Society of New Jersey through the joint providership of Atlantic Health System and the American Academy of Pediatrics, New Jersey Chapter.
Nurses: Nurses seeking to continue will receive CME upon approval; see Physicians.
Time: 9:30 am — 1:00 pm EDT
Free!
