Transgender and Gender Diversity in Neuropsychology: Affirmative Care for Adults

Emily Trittschuh, PhD and Jae Purnell, PhD will present on how one can develop an affirmative neuropsychological practice with the goal to increase comfort with querying gender and selecting neuropsychological measures. The provision of culturally-humble neuropsychological services relies on an understanding of important psychosocial perspectives which include but are not limited to, minority stress and resilience, and health care disparities.

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe how to practice culturally safe and humble neuropsychology with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adults;

2. Discuss important psychosocial perspective with include, but are not limited to, minority stress and resilience, as well as models of health disparity;

3. Demonstrate growing edges as a profession and individually.

Dr. Trittschuh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and serves as a Member at Large on the QNS Executive Board.  Dr. Purnell is a post-doctoral fellow at the Brooklyn VAMC in the Geropsychology Track.