Wildwood Behavioral Health Madison, Connecticut, United States
Session Description: A survey of the LGBTQ+ crisis in the field of treatment of substance abuse disorders and behavioral health primary patients. A serious review of how a heteronormative societal culture overlays the treatment industry failing to recognize the biopsychsocial needs of sexual and/or gender minorities. This becomes most obvious when one considers the LGBTQ+ person's experience of internalized (Homo) Queer-phobia. Based on SAMHSA guidelines it is possible to review the state of treatment programs and one's own work or practice. Furthering the development of a LGBTQ+ centered program outlined by SAMHSA, Dr Hinkley has developed the Queer Normative Theory. This effort seeks to provide the LGBTQ+ client a Safe environment that offers an opportunity to develop spiritually, self-esteem, and find a greater authenticity free of queer-phobia and the trauma of growing up as an LGBTQ+ individual.
Learning Objectives:
After this activity participants should be able to
Analyze the social and cultural Crisis in the LGBTQ+ treatment experience seen through negative trends in client outcomes of addiction rates, treatment interruption and sustained sobriety.
Appraise the effects of societal, communal, and familial oppression and discrimination on the psychosocial development of the LGBTQ+ individual with particular reference to internalized (Homo) Queer-phobia
Analyze SHAMSA treatment models for the LGBTQ+ community and the need to develop a LGBTQ+ specific milieu within programs, promoting client self-esteem and heeling of trauma and internalized queer-phobia.