Working with LGBT+ People

What Will You Learn?

• This course aims to help family members, friends and professionals working with LGBT+ persons to: understand the critical issues and challenges experienced by LGBT+ people and how it may vary across developmental stages
• prevent mental health risks and promoting healthy outcomes among LGBT+ people
• promote safe homes and environments to nurture healthy and successful individuals
• This course takes a neutral stance towards LGBT+ people. Through the course, the participants will be led to better understand their own views and prejudices, before taking an informed position how to approach and relate to the LGBT+ individual guided by research-based perspectives and interventions.
• At the end of the course, participants will understand more about the relevant concepts and terminology related to gender and sexual identity, the specific possible mental health issues that a LGBT+ person may experience, and practical ways to address these challenges and support these people.