Gender Dysphoria:A Therapeutic model for Children, Adolescents&Young People
Event Information
About this event
About this event
Talks discussions interaction about this controversial area of clinical work with two experienced clinicians. The emphasis will be on the psychological understanding of young children, adolescents and young adults who experience gender dysphoria.
The conference will be recorded and available to registrants who cannot attend due to it being BST ( British Summer Time).
A Day Conference
Saturday 5th June 2021
9.30-4 pm (BST) British Summer Time
Gender Dysphoria -A Therapeutic model for working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
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Sue Evans & Marcus Evans.
Timetable
Chair David Morgan
9.30 Welcome and introductions
9.45-10.30 What has happened here?
The interaction between the socio-political climate in gender identity and clinical work with the young person who identifies as trans.
The ‘Affirmation model’ and how it is interpreted. What is the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion therapy? Evidence base and why we are struggling to see the full picture. Understanding suicidal risk. In the first session Susan and Marcus will be joined by Dr Susan Matthews.
10.30-11.15
Questions and Discussion
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30 -12.30 A model for understanding gender dysphoria
A Therapeutic Model: understanding the pressures from the patient, their family and society. How we can think about and explore the symptoms and presentation of trans- identified children. During the second and third session Susan and Marcus will be joined by Dr Kirsty Entwistle and Stella O'Malley.
12.30-12.45 Questions and Discussion.
12.45-1.15 Lunch
1.15-2.15 Therapeutic work
The challenges of the clinical work. Understanding the effects of concrete thinking: Thinking versus pressure to act.
Who are the ‘gender experts’ and why do we refer children onto them? Can mental health clinicians/psychodynamic therapists assess and work with children and young people presenting with gender dysphoria.
2.15-3.15 Questions and Discussion.
3.15 – 4.00. Plenary. Discussion and feedback.
Biographies
Susan Evans: A psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She trained as a state general and then psychiatric nurse and worked for nearly 40 years in the NHS, in a variety of mental health services, including the national gender identity service for children. She now has a private practice in London. She is a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation, the London Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Service, and is registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Marcus Evans: Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society. He worked as a nurse in mental health services and as an adult psychotherapist in the NHS for forty years. For several years he was clinical lead of the Adult and Adolescent Departments at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust and head of nursing in the Trust for 20 years. He is the author of Making Room for Madness in Mental Health and Psychoanalytic Thinking in Mental Health Settings.
David Morgan is a Psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society, Training Analyst with the BPA BPF, he also organises events and chairs The Political Mind Seminars IOPA https://psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=1099&reset=1
He is editor of The Unconscious in Social and Political Life and A Deeper Cut. Further Explorations. (Phoenix Books).
Dr Susan Matthews is a cultural historian who has written on histories of gender and sexuality. She became involved in this area as she had seen a relative suffer gender dysphoria.
She has published recently on the rise of gender identity theory in the two Brunskell Evans and Moore collections.
Dr Kirsty Entwistle is a Clinical Psychologist from the UK, currently living in Portugal. She is registered as a Psychologist in the UK and in Portugal and works with mostly adolescent clients who are questioning their gender.
Stella O'Malley is a psychotherapist, best-selling author, public speaker and a parent with many years’ experience working in counselling and psychotherapy with gender dysphoric children. She also co-ordinates parent support groups.
Organiser Public Interest Psychology
Organiser of Gender Dysphoria:A Therapeutic model for Children, Adolescents&Young People