Professional Training
Assessment With Gender-Diverse Clients and Current Trends
$99.00
Friday, February 5, 2027, 1:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern. Live on Zoom. Ten seats.
A three-hour live workshop for clinicians who evaluate gender-diverse clients, and for clinicians who refer for evaluation and read the reports.
Assessment is often treated as neutral. It is not. Intake language, norm selection, instrument design, and interpretive habits can all reduce validity when a client is transgender or gender diverse, and the errors rarely announce themselves in the score report. This workshop works through where bias enters the assessment workflow and what a defensible evaluation does about it.
What we cover
The workflow before any instrument is given. Intake language, consent, and the documentation choices that shape everything after them.
Where norms and instruments do not fit. How standard norming and instrument design can fail a gender-diverse client, and how to state that limitation in the interpretation rather than hide it.
The differential. Distinguishing gender-related distress from co-occurring presentations that are commonly conflated with it, worked through a case.
Report language. Writing findings that are accurate, affirming, and usable by the reader, including what the evaluation cannot conclude.
The current environment. What the present legal, policy, and referral landscape changes in referral questions, norming, and documentation.
Who this is for
Licensed psychologists and licensed mental health clinicians who conduct psychological evaluations, and clinicians who refer for evaluation and want to read reports with sharper questions.
Format and tuition
Three hours, live on Zoom, capped at ten. Tuition $99. The Zoom link and materials go by email to registrants before the session.
Continuing education
This workshop does not award continuing education credit.
Led by Niki Serravalle, Psy.D., LPCMH, NCC, a licensed psychologist whose practice centers on psychological evaluation.