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• Contextualizing the Gender Divergent Experience: Learning How to Help Your Gender Diverse Clients in Troubling Times

  • When
    May 30, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Live Zoom Webinar

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  UPA Presents:

  Contextualizing the Gender Divergent Experience: Learning How to Help Your Gender Diverse Clients in Troubling Times

  Friday, May 30, 2025
  1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
  4 CE credit hours
  This will be a Zoom presentation

  Course Description

  This four-hour course provides in-depth learning across areas critical to understanding and providing competent care to gender diverse individuals. The primary focus will be providing foundational information for starting or continuing your journey to becoming a culturally competent provider for gender-diverse clients. While primarily introductory in nature, the course is also intended to provide valuable resources and ideas for clinicians at every level of experience and competency. The topics covered will include vocabulary and concepts critical to providing competent affirmative care, understanding of the broader cultural context effecting gender diverse individuals, discussion of guidance offered by professional organizations, examination of current events, exploration of religious policies related to gender divergent individuals, and an examination of how existing clinical practices can be applied to the clinical needs of gender diverse patients.

  Learning Objectives:

  Identify at least 4 proper and 4 improper vocabulary words for working with gender diverse individuals. Be able to identify at least 4 major gender diverse identities.

  Be able to identify the major national and local laws impacting trans individuals. Be able to discuss in detail at least two major news events of the last 4 years related to gender diverse individuals.

  Know where to locate WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, statements from professional organizations and identify at least 3 community resources available in Utah.

  Identify a third wave CBT (DBT, ACT) concepts or intervention and how it addresses the therapeutic needs of the gender diverse individuals including identity development/early transition, internalized stigma and coping with minority stress.

  Presenter Bio:

  Dr. Marcy Porritt (She\They) received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University with a formal specialization in neuroscience and neuropsychology. Her clinical emphasis is assessment and treatment of severe psychopathology and developmental disorders in adults and children. Dr. Porritt’s work experience includes inpatient psychiatric hospitals, community mental health, homeless outreach, and Veterans Administration settings. She has worked at Huntsman Mental Health Institute and is currently employed at Primary Children’s where she splits her time between the acute inpatient units and outpatient clinic. Dr. Porritt identifies primarily as a contextual behavioral scientist focusing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Porritt is a member of the LGBTQ Affirmative Therapists Guild of Utah, has experience leading institutional DEI committees and is actively involved in issues of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

  Registration Fees:

  	UPA Members	Non-Members
  Early bird registration through May 23, 2025	$100	$125
  After early bird registration	$150	$175

  
  

  UPA Student/Resident Members	Non-Member Students /Residents
  No Charge	$15

  Register online at:   www.utpsych.org  OR Call Teresa Bruce at 801-410-0337

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• Internalized Weight Stigma

  • When
    June 06, 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Location
    Live Zoom Webinar

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  UPA Presents:

  Internalized Weight Stigma

  Friday, June 6, 2025
  9 am TO 11 am
  2 CE Credit Hours

  This will be a Zoom presentation

  Course Overview

  Weight stigma, whether internalized or experienced, has deleterious mental and physical health consequences for patients with overweight/obesity. Patients pursuing medical (e.g., GLP-1’s) and surgical (i.e., metabolic and bariatric surgery) weight management are at higher risks for these impacts. MBS is the most effective intervention to treat overweight/obesity and anti-obesity medication use is on the rise. However, outcomes from these interventions may be reduced due to weight stigma. Therefore, providers should understand the impacts and the complexity of weight outside of one’s individual control or ‘willpower’ and apply appropriate assessment and interventions to address and ultimately reduce these negative effects.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the contributing factors to internalized and experienced weight stigma.
  • Describe the mental and physical health impacts of weight stigma in persons with overweight/obesity.
  • Discuss the evidence-based interventions that can be used on individual, systemic, and organizational levels.

  Presenter Bio:

  Hannah Farnsworth, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and provider in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Utah specializing and Bariatric and Weight Management Psychology. Dr. Farnsworth performs pre-surgical psychological bariatric evaluations and provides psychotherapy services for individuals in the Comprehensive Weight Management Clinic. Her clinical and research interests include understanding the unique experiences of bariatric and weight management patients, such as stigma and discrimination, to inform treatment recommendations and healthcare services

  Registration Fees:

  	UPA Members	Non-Members
  Early bird registration through May 30, 2025	$50	$75
  After early bird registration	$75	$100

  
  

  UPA Student/Resident Members	Non-Member Students /Residents
  No Charge	$15

  Register online at:   www.utpsych.org  OR Call Teresa Bruce at 801-410-0337

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