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PROGRAM: Advanced Clinical Training for Interventions With LGBT
Individuals And Communities 
DATE:  February 23, 2007
TIME:  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.          
LOCATION:  Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, Charleston, WV
CEUs:  Approved for 7 social work CEUs 
PRESENTER:  Kathleen Carrick, MSW, Ph.D. Candidate, University of
Pittsburgh School of Social Work SPONSOR:  WVU Division of Social Work 
COST:  $80 (Lunch Included)
 
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:This program is designed to help participants
develop a critical understanding of issues faced by lesbians, gays,
bisexuals, and transgender clients.  The course will take a broad view,
examining LGBT sexuality from legal, psychological, biological,
cultural, ethical, and philosophical frameworks with a particular
emphasis on appropriate clinical interventions with LGBT clients.  
Topics to be examined include an overview of  LGBT history in the United
States, LGBT culture and community resources, the coming out process,
LGBT health disparities,  legal issues that affect LGBT clients, LGBT
parenting and family concerns, diversity within the LGBT community, and
social policy implications.This workshop is intended to help
participants evaluate and improve critical analytical skills, and apply
them to issues relating to sexuality. The emphasis is on how, not what,
to think. That is to say, everyone's opinion and point of view will be
respected in lectures and class discussions, but we will be challenging
each other to examine critically the processes by which we reach and
hold opinions and how these opinions impact our work with LGBT clients. 
This session will challenge us to examine our clinical training and/or
personal assumptions about the role gender, sexism, and heterosexism
play in how we interact with our clients. 
 
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:  Upon completion of this workshop, participants
should be able to: explain the role that LGBT history and culture have
played in meeting the needs of LGBT individuals in our society;
recognize the multiple social and institutional barriers faced by
members of the LGBT community; screen for LGBT health/mental health
issues; and describe appropriate clinical and referral responses for
LGBT patients during a mental health evaluation and/or treatment. 
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER, GO TO
http://sw.as.wvu.edu/continuing or call Jacki Englehardt at
304-293-3501, ext. 3109 


Jacki Englehardt, MSW, ACSW
Coordinator of Professional and Community Education
Division of Social Work
West Virginia University
PO Box 6830
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-3501, ext. 3109
fax:  304-293-5936
cell: 304-282-0321
Summer Institute on Aging Website:  www.wvsioa.org