MF 760 Gender Affirming Couple and Family Therapy: 3 semester hours
This course is designed to deepen students’ understanding of best practices for offering gender affirming care for transgender and gender non-binary individuals and their couple and/or family system. Students will be challenged to deconstruct gender norms, learn best practices for supporting youth and adults in exploring their gender identity and expression, and learn how to assist parents and partners in exploring what it means to be transgender or gender non-binary. Students will learn the GRACE model, a family therapy model for transgender youth and their families. Student will explore the intersectionality of gender diversity and neuro divergence. Students will also explore how to assist couples and families in navigating social and medical transitions and ways to best support their child or partner.