70: Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP): Core Principles and Skills to Reduce the Mental Health Care “GAP” for Transgender Youths

Psychiatric Services From Pages to Practice

Maggi A. Price, Ph.D., M.A. (School of Social Work, Boston College) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss gender-affirming psychotherapy (GAP), a comprehensive, evidence-informed, and human-centered set of practices focusing on the treatment of transgender youth developed by Dr. Price and colleagues.

The training discussed in the podcast is available to the public at a reduced cost at https://www.affirmlab.org/gaptraining with the discount code “psychserv50."

Transcript

• 01:27 How did you end up on this project?
• 04:20 Gaps in care for transgender youths
• 05:47 Methods
• 08:47 Human-centered design
• 09:28 Stakeholders and focus groups
• 12:32 Domains
• 15:22 Key themes
• 18:17 Can you separate out gender identity from other goals of therapy?
• 20:38 Bringing in providers who are less supportive of potentially hostile
• 23:40 Providers who work in areas of transgender discrimination
• 26:03 First steps

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