Abstract and VIDEO of presentation at International Family Therapy Association, Hawaii 2016_Family Therapy with Transgenders
01/01/2020, 01:18:00 –
Abstract of Presentation at International Family Therapy Association - IFTA 24th World Family Therapy Conference 2016
Presenters: PhDr. Eva Smidova
Title: Inside-Out: Natural Systems Family Therapy Program for TRANS+GENDER Questioning Families
Short title: Inside-Out
Group Therapy Program for Trans + Gender Questioning Families informed by the Natural Systems approach to Family Therapy
Short description (50 words): The purpose of this workshop is to introduce a unique group therapy program for families of trans and gender questioning children, the youth, and adults. The program involves entire family system and is based on Bowen’s Natural Systems therapeutic approach. The program targets significant decrease of anxiety and psychological distress.
Long description (350 words):
Inside-Out workshop offers an invitation to a unique world of fluid and transitioning genders and brings a profound insight into a clinical work with transgender and gender questioning families. The workshop introduces a newly developed group therapy program for trans and gender questioning families. Involvement and support of a family of a questioning or transitioning family member is crucial and it is a predictor of successful transition and life satisfaction. Group therapy involves the close family system of transgender or gender questioning individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria as classified by DSM-V. The program has been developed based on Bowen’s Natural Systems Family Therapy approach to guide families of transgender and gender questioning members through the whole process of their transition and/or gender challenging journey. The program has been examined on family members of five respective ongoing support groups that have been meeting regularly monthly since September 2014. The total sample consisted of 35 participants. The program targets decrease of emotional distress caused by gender dysphoria, alleviate anxiety, depression, and uncertainty about affordable life satisfaction.
Implications for family therapists will be shared with participants. The program enhances respect for diversity, equality, pride, and dignity.
Learning objectives:
- provide participants with the opportunity to recognize and increase awareness of diverse issues in day-to-day life of transgender and gender questioning families, and bring a clinical insight to clinicians
- introduce a unique, specially developed group therapy program based on the Natural Systems approach to family therapy for transgender and gender questioning families and its clinical application in group therapy with this population
- explore and prove efficacy of the program, and how it affects the decrease of emotional distress, alleviates anxiety, depression, and uncertainty about satisfaction life of this population
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