We are honored to offer a training in Spring 2020 with Kate MacShane, LCSW-C, founder and clinical director of the Maryland Center for Gender & Intimacy in Frederick, Maryland. Improving our competence as therapists in our work with LGBQ+, transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming (T/NB/GNC) individuals from a gender-affirming perspective is essential.

This 3 credit in person course will focus on providing affirmative therapy with transgender, nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and otherwise gender-diverse clients. A foundational understanding of the difference between sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation will be presented. Discussion will include development an affirming therapeutic perspective; mental health risks and protective factors for transgender people; special issues in working with transgender and gender nonconforming youth; supporting families through gender transition; and supporting clients in accessing gender-affirming medical treatment. (Target Audience: Cisgender Social Workers and Counselors; gender-diverse clinicians welcome – Content Level: Intermediate)

About the Instructor

Kate MacShane, LCSW-C, is the founder and clinical director of the Maryland Center for Gender & Intimacy in Frederick, Maryland, where she specializes in sexuality and gender. Kate is a queer, cisgender, biracial therapist who practices from an anti-oppressive framework that incorporates feminist, queer, anti-white-supremacist, and other liberatory perspectives. Kate’s approach to working with clients incorporates relational, psychodynamic, attachment-based, and narrative therapies. Kate is a member of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) and the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. She received a MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work and an M.Ed. from American University.

Learning Objectives

1. Define and cultivate an affirming stance toward people of diverse gender identities

2. Differentiate between sex, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation

3. Identify mental health risks and protective factors for transgender people

4. Support parents and families as they navigate gender exploration and transition

Course Outline:

Friday, May 22nd — 8:30-11:30 (3hrs)

8:30-8:50: 

-Overview of the spectra of identity sex, gender identity, gender expression, gender attribution, and sexual orientation

8:50-9:25:

- Privilege and power with respect to sexuality and gender in therapy

- Barriers to treatment for transgender and gender-nonconforming people

- The affirmative stance

9:25-9:55:

- Gender terminology

- Understanding gender dysphoria

9:55-10:50

- Overview of gender transition (social and medical)

- The role of the clinician in providing support for clients in transition

10:50-11:30

- Case studies

- Special considerations for children & adolescents

11:30: Q & A

Registration & Info

The cost to attend this training is $69, until March 1st, in which it will increase to $79. The cost of this event includes coffee/tea, continental breakfast from local vendors, afternoon snacks and certificate. Register online at www.marylandceus.com and contact MACCE at info.macce@gmail.com if there are questions, concerns or special accommodations needed. Space is limited, and registration closes on May 15, 2020. Cancellations for a full refund must be made by May 15, 2020. Please email info.macce@gmail.com.

Course Completion and CE info.  

Social workers and Counselors must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to earn a CE credit. Certificates will be handed out at the end of the workshop. 

This training has been approved by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors for Category A continuing education credits for this course for licensed counselors in Maryland. It has also been approved by the Board of Social Work Examiners for Category I continuing education units. The Mid-Atlantic Center for Continuing Education maintains full responsibility for this program.

Grievance and Satisfaction Policy.  

The Mid-Atlantic Center for Continuing Education (MACCE) regards customer satisfaction in delivering high quality continuing education courses as our main priority. It is our goal to detect what our customers expect from our company and to fulfill these expectations unconditionally.

We ensure 100% customer and trainer satisfaction and welcome any feedback. For our full grievance and satisfaction policy, please request a copy at info.macce@gmail.com.

Come join us in what will prove to be one of the most engaging, thought provoking, and entertaining ethics workshops you've attended. Being engaged in the true spirit of ethics is not just checking off the boxes.  In fact, ethical considerations are at the heart of working with clients, especially when complications arise.  In this training, we will reference the idea of ethical intelligence* in order to provide a change of mindset when engaging with clients.

This 6 credit in person course is developed to help social work and counseling professionals learn how to better integrate ethical and legal considerations into their practices. We will work with an updated ethical and caring mindset that will help make being a therapist less stressful when ethical dilemmas arise.          *As written by Kenneth S. Pope and Melba Vasquez

(Target Audience: Social Workers and Counselors – Content Level: Intermediate)

About the Instructor

Michael Southers, M.S., LCPC is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 19 years of experience working with people, and with 14 years of experience working in the mental health profession both at a non-profit and currently at his own private practice working with clients. He also provides supervision, and serves as an adjunct faculty at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland.  He has worked with a variety of clients including adults and children from mild to severe mental health diagnoses, families, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and people on the autism spectrum, and facilitates groups all while being mindful of best practices and exercising ethical thinking.

Michael’s B.A. degree is in philosophy with a concentration in critical thinking and ethics. Michael continues to remain passionate about living an ethical life personally and professionally, and has maintained an extensive background in ethical considerations involving healthcare, diverse populations, and business.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify and list legal and ethical obligations when providing therapy as relevant to state and federal laws.

2. Participants will be able to review and describe confidentiality requirements for clients, distance counseling, and working with children.

3. Participants will be able to define multi-cultural awareness as it pertains to ethics and will be able to list personal barriers that may arise during work with clients. 

4. Participants will be able to name current procedures and policies regarding informed consent and best practices to protect the clinician and client. 

5. Learn and summarize the requirements for giving and receiving ethical supervision and peer consultation.

Course Outline

8:30-9:00am: Registration

9:00-10:30am:

Introduction

Why ethics and multicultural perspectives are important throughout training 

Defining ethics and laws

Define and explore nuances of ethical intelligence

10:30-10:45am: 15 Minute Break

10:45-12:00pm:

Informed Consent

Distance counseling

Confidentiality expectations and limits

Supervision and Peer Consultation

12:00-1:00pm: 1 hour lunch on your own

1:00-2:30pm:

Review

Examine ethics of practice in various therapy settings

Ethical Imperatives

Decision models to assist making ethical decisions

2:30-2:45pm: 15 Minute Break

2:45-4:30pm:

Physical Contact/Touch

Professional Boundaries

Evaluation

Registration & Info

The cost to attend this training is $89, until May 1st, in which it will increase to $99. The cost of this event includes coffee/tea, continental breakfast from local vendors, afternoon snacks and certificate. Register online at www.marylandceus.com and contact MACCE at info.macce@gmail.com if there are questions, concerns or special accommodations needed. Space is limited, and registration closes on May 8th, 2020. Cancellations for a full refund must be made by May 8th, 2020. Please email info.macce@gmail.com.

Course Completion and CE info.  

Social workers and Counselors must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to earn a CE credit. Certificates will be handed out at the end of the workshop. 

Being an Ethical Therapist Without Terror: Knowing the Risks and Providing Ethical Care to Our Clients, Course #2761 is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by The Mid-Atlantic Center for Continuing Education as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: (1/6/2020-1/6/2022) Social Workers completing this course receive 6 Ethics continuing education credits.

The Mid-Atlantic Center for Continuing Education has been approved by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors for Category A continuing education credits for this course for licensed counselors in Maryland.  The Mid-Atlantic Center for Continuing Education maintains full responsibility for this program.

Grievance and Satisfaction Policy.  

The Mid-Atlantic Center for Continuing Education (MACCE) regards customer satisfaction in delivering high quality continuing education courses as our main priority. It is our goal to detect what our customers expect from our company and to fulfill these expectations unconditionally.

We ensure 100% customer and trainer satisfaction and welcome any feedback. For our full grievance and satisfaction policy, please request a copy at info.macce@gmail.com.