4/21/2022 Grand Rounds

Affirming Care with and for LGBTQIA+ People: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion

Speaker:

Whit Ryan, MA Moderator Intern, center for multicultural Training in Psychology Carl Streed Jr., MD, MPH, FACP Assistant Professor of medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Attending, Department of Medicine, BMC, Evan Medical Foundation, Inc Konjit Pag, Ph.D Core Faculty, Clinical Psychology PhD Program, Fielding Graduate University Cecil Webster, MD Lecturer in Psychiatry, Part-Time, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital Li Brookens, LCSW Founder and Psychotherapist, the Umbrella Collective

In this interdisciplinary presentation, panelists will speak to their experiences in providing affirming care to LGBTQIA+ people. Each member of the panel represents a distinct field of care — primary care, psychiatry, social work, and psychology — and each dedicates a significant portion of their professional focus to working with sexual and gender minorities. Topics to be covered by panelists include the importance of providing affirming care, intricacies of being a member of a small community even in a large city, professional benefits of working with queer and trans people, how intersectional identities can affect clinical relationships, and experiences of interdisciplinary mental and physical healthcare.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss an applied definition of affirming practice form four professional perspectives

2. Identify professional benefits of providing affirming care for members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

3. Define at least one way they can apply affirming care within the fields pf psychology, primary care, psychiatry, and social work.