Psychological Assessment Considerations Series: Considerations for neuropsychological assessment with transgender clients

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Presenter: Colt St. Amand

  

Overview:

 

This webinar focuses on evidence-based guidelines and practice regarding affirmative assessment with transgender individuals. To prevent inaccurate and potentially harmful evaluations, assessors with insufficient knowledge and training on assessment with trans clients are to seek supervision and consultation from more experienced providers and communicate with experts. When conducting pre-hormone evaluations, providers are to be mindful of evidence for affective and cognitive modifications correlated with beginning hormone therapy (HT). Though future research may illuminate the specific mechanisms and predictors of these changes, it cannot be presumed that no changes will occur after initiating HT. Moreover, not providing HT to a trans adult due to suicidality or other mood disorder symptoms, which would likely ameliorate from HT, is not an affirmative practice and is likely to cause harm.

Presurgical evaluations for surgery related to gender transition are significantly distinct from presurgical evaluations for other conditions regarding goals. Therefore, a medical decisional capacity model is more concordant with an affirmative assessment approach.

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the gender-affirmative model (GAM)and the gender minority stress model that guide clinicians’ choice of psychological tools, scoring, interpretation and conceptualization of transgender individuals’ experiences, including strengths, when engaging in
  2. Distinguish mental health symptoms from clients’ unique experiences and strengths related to gender
  3. Apply a medical decisional capacity model consistent with an affirmative assessment
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Presenter: Colt St. Amand

  

Overview:

 

This webinar focuses on evidence-based guidelines and practice regarding affirmative assessment with transgender individuals. To prevent inaccurate and potentially harmful evaluations, assessors with insufficient knowledge and training on assessment with trans clients are to seek supervision and consultation from more experienced providers and communicate with experts. When conducting pre-hormone evaluations, providers are to be mindful of evidence for affective and cognitive modifications correlated with beginning hormone therapy (HT). Though future research may illuminate the specific mechanisms and predictors of these changes, it cannot be presumed that no changes will occur after initiating HT. Moreover, not providing HT to a trans adult due to suicidality or other mood disorder symptoms, which would likely ameliorate from HT, is not an affirmative practice and is likely to cause harm.

Presurgical evaluations for surgery related to gender transition are significantly distinct from presurgical evaluations for other conditions regarding goals. Therefore, a medical decisional capacity model is more concordant with an affirmative assessment approach.

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the gender-affirmative model (GAM)and the gender minority stress model that guide clinicians’ choice of psychological tools, scoring, interpretation and conceptualization of transgender individuals’ experiences, including strengths, when engaging in
  2. Distinguish mental health symptoms from clients’ unique experiences and strengths related to gender
  3. Apply a medical decisional capacity model consistent with an affirmative assessment

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