2024 Annual Meeting - Extension Division Program Only

Four Seasons, Baltimore, MD

200 International Dr, Baltimore, MD 21202 

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Extension Program

The Internal Developmental Experience of Parents Who Have a Gender Variant Child

Presenter: Barbara Gamble, MS 

Moderator: Susan Baxt, PhD

Discussant: Carla Neely, PhD

Open to all licensed psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

1.5 CEs available

In person only. No virtual option.

REGISTRATION CLOSES APRIL 21st

Course Objectives:

Parenting gender variant children presents particular challenges both to parents’ internal development and to their tasks of parenting. In a review of the literature, parenting processes most salient to parenting gender variant youth are delineated. Parental capacity to work through internal conflicts and to see their child as separate from themselves helps them to navigate the experience of their child's unfolding gender identity in a growth promoting way for both parents and child. As a single case study, the author describes her developmental experience of parenting a gender variant child, augmented by experiences of others she has encountered personally and in her practice.

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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditationrequirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the Association for Child Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”