Advanced Clinical Practice with LGBTQ Populations
MSW Course, New York University, Silver School of Social Work, 2027
Instructor and Course Developer.. This course prepares students for grounded, relational social work practice with LGBTQ communities across micro and macro contexts. Students examine how gender, sex, and sexuality are shaped by systemic harm and sociopolitical violence and consider the implications for client experiences and care. Drawing on critical theories across disciplines, this course (1) centers positionality and transference/countertransference in relational work, and (2) interrogates resilience as both a contested concept and a site of survival, attending to the complexities of client experiences for LGBTQ populations. Through collective reflection and creative practice, students develop approaches to clinical work that transform conditions of care within oppressive sociopolitical systems.