Supporting families of transgender and nonbinary youth is crucial for positive mental health outcomes. Join Sabra L. Katz-Wise,PhD,Associate Professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, for an exclusive webinar on how family environments shape the mental health of transgender and nonbinary youth. As Director of the SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative and GenderWise Lab, Sabra L. Katz-Wise,PhD, is a leading researcher on LGBTQ+ health and family functioning.
This session will present key findings from the NIH-funded Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project, a longitudinal, community-engaged study exploring how family dynamics impact youth well-being. Attendees will also gain insights into a family-level intervention designed to support families in fostering affirming, healthy relationships.
With extensive research and advocacy experience, Sabra L. Katz-Wise,PhD,will provide practical, evidence-based strategies for clinicians, educators, and professionals seeking to improve support for transgender and nonbinary youth and their families.
About the session
This webinar will present findings from the Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project, a National Institutes of Health-funded community-engaged longitudinal mixed methods study to understand how the family environment affects transgender and nonbinary youth’s mental health and wellbeing. Findings will be presented from the longitudinal component of the study as well as the development of a family-level intervention to support families with transgender and nonbinary youth. Clinical implications for supporting transgender and nonbinary youth and their families will be shared.
Learning outcomes
1. To describe how family functioning affects transgender and nonbinary youth’s mental health.
2. To identify multi-level contextual factors that affect the functioning of families with transgender and nonbinary youth.
3. To describe the utility of a family-level intervention for families with transgender and nonbinary youth.
About the speaker
Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the SOGIE Health Equity Research Collaborative and the GenderWise Lab. Dr. Katz-Wise’s research uses community-engaged mixed methods to investigate psychosocial functioning in families with transgender and nonbinary youth, sexual orientation and gender identity development and fluidity, and health inequities among LGBTQ+ adolescents and young adults. Dr. Katz-Wise is also involved with advocacy efforts to improve the workplace climate, patient care, and learning environment for LGBTQ+ individuals.