About this event

  • Date and time Thu 28 Apr 2022 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Sexuality and Sexual Health Section

This webinar will examine the latest ideas and updates in LGBTQ+ health, mental health, and stress factors from a lifespan (paediatrics to geriatrics) perspective. 

With multiple question and answer sessions, experts will provide updates on sexual variation and mental health, international perspectives of LGBTQ+ online help in Africa, and the importance and prevalence of minority stress and the impacts on this patient group.  

Topics to be covered include: 

  • Defined person-centred care relating to LGBTQ+ needs within a theoretical framework 
  • Awareness of how health impacts the provision of person-centred care for LGBTQ+ with minority stress 
  • Understand human development across the lifespan and the impact on mental, physical, behavioural and cognitive health conditions.

Registration for this webinar will close 1 hour prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 1 hour before the meeting.

The Trainee and Medical Student Essay Prize

The Trainee and Medical Student Essay Prize will be hosted at this event in April. 

Prize
First prize: £250 and a year's free RSM membership
Second prize: A year's free RSM membership

Submission deadline: 28 February 2022 at 11:59pm

Open to: Medical students, all medical specialities, all training levels and allied health professionals.

For full application guidelines and overview please click here

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Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Mr Matthew Broadway-Horner, President, Sexuality and Sexual Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine

Sexual variation and mental health

Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Questions and answers
LGBTQ+ online help in Africa Focus on Intervention Research for Mental Health (AFFIRM)

Mr Jonathan Mckay, Chief Creative and Programmes Officer, Girl Effect and Ms Dena Batrice, Director of Clinical Programmes, SameSame Collective


Questions and answers
Comfort break
An introduction to minority stress and it’s role in understanding the LGBTQ+ experience

Mr Matthew Broadway-Horner

Questions and answers
Closing remarks
Close of webinar

Location

Online

Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are those of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM or the speakers' organisations.

Registration for this webinar will close 1 hour prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 1 hour before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.

This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be  distributed  in future on various internet channels. 

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