Exploring Identity Development Models for System involved Youth with Multiple Identities
Thu, Feb 25
|Online Event


Time & Location
Feb 25, 2021, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Online Event
About the Event
Kelsey Pacha
Training Description
This highly interactive and informative cultural humility training supports service providers in deepening their understanding of racial, sexuality, gender, and moral development when working with system-involved youth. Through self-reflection and group case study work, attendees will be better equipped to formulate case plans and other strategies to support system involved youth clients in their healthy identity development by considering the multiple, complex, and layered influences that create a unique individual experience of development throughout the lifespan.
Learning Objective
Review Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and Erik Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development as a foundation to evaluate several identity development models.
Become familiar with Sue et. al's Stages of Racial Identity Development Model, Cass' Model of Gay and Lesbian Development, Bem’s Gender Schema Theory and Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development.