Webinar: Supporting Transgender Adult Patients 

After the successful delivery of our webinar with RCPsych in Scotland and the North West Division back in February 2022, the Trent and West Midlands divisions are pleased to announce their webinar 'Supporting Transgender Adult Patients' on 8 December from 9.30am-12.30pm.

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Topics in the webinar will include:

  • assessment of complex patients
  • ASD and transgender people
  • trans folk in general psychiatric services – what to do differently if anything?
  • improving the admission process to impatient wards for gender diverse service users – service evaluation
  • attention to autism in the clinical care guidance for transgender and gender-diverse people: A scoping review
  • intersectionality, communication, and safe spaces: Lived experience perspectives.

The session will be recorded and available afterwards to those who register. Further information and bookings can be made via our Supporting Transgender Adult Patients event page.

Medical students can attend for free. Please contact division.events@rcpsych.ac.uk to book your free place.

This session is part of the LGBTQ+ Mental Health Webinar Series with the RCPsych Trent and West Midlands divisions, which commenced on 28 September with a session 'Trauma, substances, and suicide', which was met with great success. One delegate in attendance described the event as “one of the best webinars I've ever been to”.

The full series can be booked, giving access to all four sessions, or alternatively each session can be booked individually.

  • Session 1 – Trauma, substances, and suicide – 28 September 2023
  • Session 2 – Supporting Transgender Adult Patients – 8 December 2023
  • Session 3 – Intersectionality and LGBTQ+ Mental Health: A closer look- 25 January 2024
  • Session 4 – LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health – 23 February 2024

For further information and to make a booking, please visit our LGBTQ+ Mental Health Webinar Series event page.

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