MPS Scientific Meeting October 21, 2023

THE INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTAL EXPERIENCE OF PARENTS WHO HAVE A GENDER VARIANT CHILD

Barbara L Gamble, MS

Graduate, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute

Discussant: Hannah Wallerstein, PhD

Faculty, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute

Adjunct Faculty, Austen Riggs Center

Saturday, October 21, 2023

2:00 – 4:00 PM (Eastern time)

2 CME and CE Credit Hours

$25 per credit hour for non-MPS members. Call or email Monica Evans at 248-851-3380, mevans@mpi-mps.org to arrange continuing education credits.

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About the presenter and discussant:

Barbara L Gamble, M.S., is an Adult Psychoanalyst and Advanced Candidate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis at the MPI. She has a private psychoanalysis and psychotherapy practice in Ann Arbor, MI, teaches through the MPI ACAPP Program, and provides clinical supervision. Barbara has MS degrees in Educational Psychology and Clinical Psychology.

Hannah Wallerstein, Ph.D., FABP is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Ann Arbor, MI. She serves as faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, adjunct faculty at the Austen Riggs Center, clinical supervisor for the CCNY Doctoral program, and on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Hannah has published on gender identity and transgender phenomena, psychosis and historical trauma, and most recently the collapse between biology and ontology in psychoanalytic thinking on the body. 

Practice Gap/Need and Course Description:

There is little in the psychoanalytic literature that directly addresses the parenting experience with gender variant youth. Drawing upon the psychoanalytic literature on parenting and gender, and a personal parenting case study and clinical case study, the presenter explicates this parenting experience, to expand clinicians’ competence working with parents of gender variant youth.  

After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Apply developmental stages and tasks of parenting to recognizing the challenges a gender variant youth poses to parents throughout their childhood. 

2. Discuss the importance of parents’ working through their own internal conflicts evoked by parenting in order to optimally address challenges for their children. 

*** No Partial Credit Given. You must arrive within 10 minutes of the start time and stay until 10 minutes of the end time to receive credit.

PHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Updated July 2021

PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

SOCIAL WORKERS: The Michigan Psychoanalytic Society is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative.

The views of the speakers do not necessarily represent the views of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society.