Suzanne M Dunn, MSW, LICSW, CST shares with practitioners her vast personal and professional experience working with families of transgender, gender-queer, and non-conforming youth. Participants will gain insight around management of grieving expectations, important differences between curiosity and intrusivity when supporting families with trans or gender-queer children/family members, as well as useful tools and practices for social workers and mental health professionals who wish to strengthen their knowledge and become positive allies in the community for people who identify within the LGBTQIA+ population. *This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits – LGBTQ Cultural Competency.*

Join Deborah Levinson,LCSW as we examine the changing cultural landscape and corresponding reevaluation of the values that shape our lives. Participants will explore ethical insights surrounding adjustment, manifestations of ambiguous loss, layers of grief, as well as navigating the resulting strain on family and interpersonal relationships when conflicting individual judgements and actions may not align, as well as maintaining cognizance of associated counter-transference in the therapeutic relationship. *This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits – Ethics.*