About the Course
The concept of informed consent has its roots with both legal and ethical realms. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care version (SOC-8) advocates for informed consent in which access to transgender-related healthcare is based on providing adequate information to make an informed decision, balancing out risks and benefits. Mental health professionals are called on to both assess for capacity to consent and to work with transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) clients to address any mental health considerations that may impact the ability to provide consent prior to initiation of GAMST (gender affirming medical and/or surgical treatment). The same symptoms that interfere with capacity for consent may also interfere with perioperative care, post operative instructions, and long term follow up medical recommendations. Informed consent honors our ethical duty to respect client autonomy, but few psychotherapists have received training on how to assess capacity to consent. This course will explore the 4 components of decisional incapacity for decisional incapacity found within US statutory and case law: understanding of the treatment, appreciation of the nature of the medical condition and possibility of treatment being helpful, reasoning to rationally consider risks and benefits, and communication of the choice. Autonomy of patients is respected when all components of decisional capacity are considered and informed consent is explicitly ensured rather than implied.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss the components of decisional incapacity within US statutory and case law 2. Explicitly assess for capacity for informed consent for GAMST 3. Address mental health symptoms that may impair capacity to provide informed consent 4. Discuss two ethical issues involving informed consent for affirmative psychotherapists
What people are saying
Feedback from the live course in September 2023
The information was great. I will be thinking about consent differently.
This course was helpful and engaging. Even though i watched the recording i felt like i was there.
The course was very thought provoking and got into so much of the nitty-gritty of the whole informed consent topic.
This was way more fun and interesting than I expected. I appreciate have clear models of informed consent moving forward.
Your Presenter
Cadyn Cathers, PsyD, MBA (he/him/his) has been teaching courses on human sexuality, psychotherapy with LGBTQIA+ communities, and psychodynamic theory for over 10 years, and served as teaching faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles in the LGBT Specialization. He was the founder and CEO of The Affirmative Couch, which provided online continuing education on clinical work with LGBTQIA+, CNM, and kink communities. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice at the Out Couch Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, P.C., where he focuses on psychoanalytic psychotherapy with transgender and nonbinary patients.
Additional Information
Intended Audience This course is meant for an intermediate to advanced audience of psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists and social workers working affirmatively with TGNB clients. Completion Requirements To get CE credit you must complete the entire webinar and complete the post test with at least 75% Refunds No refunds will be offered on the purchase of this course. Accommodations We will work to accommodate reasonable accommodations requests. Requests can be emailed with “accommodation request” within 48 hours of course purchase. Requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
APA Approved Sponsor
Out Couch Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, P.C. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Out Couch Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, P.C. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Curriculum
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Course Overview
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Abstract
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Learning Objectives
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About the Presenter
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Slide Deck
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Transcript
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Practice Vignettes
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Recorded Homestudy
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Post Test
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Ethics of Informed Consent Post Test
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Post Course Survey
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Post Course Survey: Ethics of Informed Consent
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