Maggi A. Price, Ph.D., M.A. (School of Social Work, Boston College) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss gender-affirming psychotherapy (GAP), a comprehensive, evidence-informed, and human-centered set of practices focusing on the treatment of transgender youth developed by Dr. Price and colleagues.

The training discussed in the podcast is available to the public at a reduced cost at https://www.affirmlab.org/gaptraining with the discount code “psychserv50."

Transcript

• 01:27 How did you end up on this project?
• 04:20 Gaps in care for transgender youths
• 05:47 Methods
• 08:47 Human-centered design
• 09:28 Stakeholders and focus groups
• 12:32 Domains
• 15:22 Key themes
• 18:17 Can you separate out gender identity from other goals of therapy?
• 20:38 Bringing in providers who are less supportive of potentially hostile
• 23:40 Providers who work in areas of transgender discrimination
• 26:03 First steps

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