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Virtual Grand Rounds: Mental Health Care for LGBTQIA+ Populations

Silver Hill Hospital
This session by Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH contextualizes mental health inequities across diagnostic categories within a sexual and gender minority stress and resilience framework, proposes culturally responsive tailoring of evidence-based clinical practices, and offers strategies for building inclusive, affirming, and trauma-informed mental health care environments in order to optimize mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people.

Educational Objectives

As a result of participating in this activity, learners should be able to:
1. Explain the context for mental health inequities for LGBTQIA+ people, across diagnostic categories within a gender minority stress framework
2. Describe culturally responsive tailoring of evidence-based clinical practices for LGBTQIA+ people
3. Apply strategies for building inclusive, affirming, and trauma-informed environments within mental health care settings to optimize outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people