Mental Health for Transgender and Gender-Diverse People

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 – 12pm-1pm EST

Dr. Alex Keuroghlian MD, MPH, will lead this webinar on Mental Health for Transgender and Gender-diverse People. This session will contextualize 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 offer 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 will be 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.