UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Kevin T. Kuehlwein, Psy.D.
Staff Psychologist & Clinical Instructor, Center for Cognitive Therapy,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
Adjunct Associate Professor, Drexel University
Topic: "Understanding and Working
Better with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients"
CE Credits: PBTA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. PBTA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. PBTA is also an authorized provider for Continuing Education credits for Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Social Workers licensed in the state of Pennsylvania. CE credits are free for PBTA members ($25 for non-members).
Description of the Program:
Given the often different developmental pathways and unique pressures of lesbian, gay and bisexual clients (LGB)
clients, therapists need to be especially sensitive to how these clients experience the world and what effects minority
sexual orientation can have on such clients in their daily lives and in concert with psychological dysfunction.
Many well-meaning therapists still have a lack of awareness of many issues surrounding LGB experience and can
unwittingly convey unhelpful, implicit negative messages during the initial intake or therapy that interfere both with
the therapeutic alliance and with the ongoing treatment
This workshop is designed to help people understand key overarching issues in childhood and adult experience,
some subcultural differences, the correct terminology to use in speaking about sexual orientation, and some of the
more common presenting problems to watch out for in working with LGB clients. This will help interested therapists
better conceptualize LGB clients so as to work more effectively with them.
OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of this talk attendees will be
able to:
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Use correct terminology pertaining to LGB experience
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Identify and correct some areas of unintended bias that can occur in treatment
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Better conceptualize LGB clients
Dr. Kuehlwein has served as a protocol cognitive therapist for several different research trials. He has co-edited two books:
Cognitive Therapies In Action: Evolving Innovative Practice (1993) and Constructing Realities: Meaning-Making Perspectives
for Psychotherapists (1996), as well as a special issue on creativity for the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International
Quarterly. He has also authored several chapters in books, as well as scholarly articles for Cognitive & Behavioral Practice and
the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly.
PHILADELPHIA BEHAVIOR THERAPY ASSOCIATION