Mental Health for Transgender and Gender-diverse People | AIDS Education and Training Centers National Coordinating Resource Center (AETC NCRC)

Publish date:

March 04, 2021

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On 3/2/21, Dr. Alex Keuroghlian MD, MPH, lead this webinar on Mental Health for Transgender and Gender-diverse People.

This session contextualized mental health inequities across diagnostic categories and HIV risk within a gender minority stress framework, propose culturally responsive tailoring of evidence-based clinical practices, and offers strategies for building inclusive, affirming, and trauma-informed environments within healthcare organizations in order to optimize mental health and HIV-related outcomes.

At the end of this session, participants were able to:

Explain the context for mental health inequities across diagnostic categories and HIV risk within a gender minority stress framework
Describe culturally responsive tailoring of evidence-based clinical practices for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people to reduce risk of HIV transmission
Apply strategies for building inclusive, affirming, and trauma-informed environments within healthcare organizations to optimize mental health outcomes and reduce HIV transmission for TGD people.

Link to Recording