Session Five – Content Level: Advanced
Master Topic: Challenges to Transformative Leadership

The session will focus on leadership both its transformation and new vision, particularly as related to transgender and gender diversity 

Objectives:
1.    Identify positive disruption of greater understanding of gender diversity in current clinical practices.
2.    Describe how current negative and positive disruptions are challenges 
3.    Prepare and present case reports and process therapeutic options.

Readings:

• Quiros, L. (2021) Incorporating Diversity and Inclusion into Trauma-Informed Social Work:  Transformational Leadership.  Routledge, New York, NY. Chapters 5-6 (pp. 82-141).
• Leah Keating & Robert T. Muller (2020) LGBTQ+ based discrimination is associated with ptsd symptoms, dissociation, emotion dysregulation, and attachment insecurity among LGBTQ+ adults who have experienced Trauma, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 21:1,124-141, DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2019.1675222
• Seventy F. Hall & Maur J. DeLaney (2019): A Trauma-Informed Exploration of the Mental Health and Community Support Experiences of Transgender and Gender-Expansive Adults, Journal of Homosexuality, DOI:  10.1080/00918369.2019.1696104

Timed Outline:
30 minutes: Discussion of Chapters 5-6 in Incorporating Diversity and Inclusion into Trauma-Informed Social Work
45 minutes: Discussion of “LGBTQ+ based discrimination is associated with ptsd symptoms, dissociation, emotion dysregulation, and attachment insecurity among LGBTQ+ adults who have experienced Trauma” and “A Trauma-Informed Exploration of the Mental Health and Community Support Experiences of Transgender and Gender-Expansive Adults, Journal of Homosexuality”
45 minutes: Case presentations