APRIL Announcements
SSTAR 46th Annual Meeting
Sex, Religion, and Politics: Understanding and Challenging the Beliefs that Shape Our Experiences
via Zoom Webinar - April 29 - May 2, 2021
In our 46th year as an organization, we continue to celebrate our commitment to excellence in the field of human sexuality — in research, clinical practice, education, and training—as well as our commitment to the principle that people from all ages and backgrounds have a right to healthy sexuality, a right to sex therapy treatment, and access to scientific discovery informing their sexual health and wellbeing.
Registration
We encourage you to register now! CLICK HERE to register directly online. Or please CLICK HERE to print and mail in the registration form. Please note, a late fee of $50 for the Annual meeting (Friday/Saturday) registrations, across all registration types, goes into effect April 15, 2021.
Scholarships
SSTAR is foremost committed to fostering clinical sexuality practice and research. In order to fulfill this mission, SSTAR is dedicated to being a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who work in the field of human sexuality, including Black, Indigenous or other Persons of Color (BIPOC), individuals from the LGBT2SQ+ communities, and students as well as early career professionals.
SSTAR recognizes that payment of conference registration fees can be an economic hardship and is therefore offering 3 scholarships for the 2021 Annual Conference of up to $825 each to attend 3 preconference workshops, the annual meeting on Friday and Saturday and post-conference Ethics workshop on Sunday. Applicants need not be SSTAR members. Click here to see the specific criteria and to apply. Those who apply for a scholarship are asked to wait to register until they have received a reply from the Scholarship Committee, which will be prior to April 1.
**Online Training**
Treating the Two Most Common Female Sexual Complaints: Orgasm Issues and Diminished Desire
Laurie Mintz, PhD
4/16/2021 2:00 PM EST
Diminished desire and difficulty orgasming with a partner are the two most prevalent concerns women bring to health-care providers. Additionally, evidence indicates that many women struggle with these concerns, yet only reveal this to clinicians upon being directly asked. Unfortunately, however, too few clinicians have any training in assessing or dealing with these common sexual concerns, even though empirically supported treatments for both exist. This seminar will help you understand the cultural reasons for the high prevalence of these sexual problems among women. You will also become well-versed in the myriad medical, individual, and relational causes underlying both concerns. Most importantly, evidence-based treatments for both diminished desire and orgasm issues will be presented. You will leave this seminar able to assess and intervene with these two common sexual concerns.
Click here to register.
Sexual Intelligence: Empowering People to Create Sex That Works
Presenter: Marty Klein, Ph.D
April 24, 10am-1:15pm PDT
and on-demand afterwards
Topics we'll cover:
- Helping clients overcome performance anxiety
- Helping couples confront why they don't have sex
- Helping clients discover their conditions for sexual desire & pleasure
- Why sexual relaxation is more important than sexual excitement
- Kinky sex: Problem, solution, orientation, or good clean fun?
- Couples counseling when pornography is an issue
Sex therapist, forensic expert, SSTAR & SSSS keynote presenter, award-winning author of 7 books, including Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex, and How to Get It.
CEUs for APA, AASECT, more
Info & registration: bit.ly/3smdhoB
Contemporary Male Sexuality: A New Model presented by Barry McCarthy, PhD. A live, interactive webinar.
25 % off Early Bird Special until April 23rd!
Have you been wondering how to wrap your mind around male sexual problems? Male sexual function and dysfunction is multi-causal, multi-dimensional with large individual, relational, cultural, and value differences. This clinically oriented all-day webinar promotes a new model of male sexuality focused on sharing pleasure rather than perfect individual sexual performance.
Dr. McCarthy’s approach to male sexuality focuses on complexity, empathy, and respect. He explores the multiple roles, meanings, and outcomes of sexual expression rather than a simplistic approach which elevates or demonizes male sexuality. The traditional male-female double standard is confronted and replaced by the female-male equity model.
Schedule
- FRI, MAY 14TH, 2021, 09:30 AM – 11:00 AM EST
- FRI, MAY 14TH, 2021, 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM EST
- FRI, MAY 14TH, 2021, 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM EST
- FRI, MAY 14TH, 2021, 3:15 PM- 4:45 PM EST
THE COUPLES THERAPY TRAINING AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
ONLINE FOR 2021 - 2022
We hope everyone is staying safe and keeping well. Looking forward we are pleased once again to invite applications to The Couples Therapy Training and Education Program (CTTEP) at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology. Due to COVID 19 uncertainties, we will be online throughout the CTTEP academic year of 2021-2022 returning to in-person learning in 2022-2023.
Our program offers mental health professionals training in Interpersonal Psychoanalytic-Systemic Couples Therapy, as well as other psychoanalytic-systemic approaches. Our orientation, both in our theory and our practical guidance about intervening, is defined by integrating core psychoanalytic constructs with constructs that define systems work (e.g., the inevitability and usefulness of transference - countertransference phenomena with the interlocking co-construction of couples’ problems).
This unique 30-week program includes didactics, continuous group case conferences and off-site one-to-one consultation. Classes are held on Friday 12:15 - 3:00 pm at the Institute. Four overarching modules address how to begin/sustain a treatment; class and race dynamics in couples; sex and sexual diversity; and strategies with high conflict couples. Classes begin in September, 2021. More detailed information and applications may be found here.
**Research Study Recruitment**
Seeking Waitlisted Men with Low Desire
The Couples and Sexual Health Laboratory, based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, directed by Dr. Natalie Rosen (www.natalieorosen.com) in collaboration with the Relationship and Health Couple Health Laboratory, based at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario directed by Dr. Serena Corsini-Munt (https://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/reach/) are asking for your help with participant recruitment. We are looking for couples in which men experience problems with sexual desire to participate in a research study about their relationship and sexual well-being.
Despite low sexual desire being a prevalent complaint among men (around 8%), we have only recruited 40 couples in the past 3 years! Clearly, this is a hard-to-reach population. We are therefore trying to widen our outreach and would appreciate your help recruiting eligible couples. Our aim is to learn about the role of relationship factors for couples coping with men’s low sexual desire so we can enhance knowledge of novel treatment targets. This study is approved by the Dalhousie Ethics Review Board (REB# - 2016-3922 and the uOttawa Ethics Review Board REB# H-09-19-5037).
In particular, we are hoping to recruit men and their partners before they start sex therapy with you. We are wondering if you would be willing to post about our study to your website or share information about it with those on your waitlist via email. We would be so appreciative of any assistance you can provide. Please find here (1) an advertisement for the study and (2) a draft email that could go out to people on your waitlist.
Questions?
www.natalieorosen.com/mens-desire/
**Book Award Competition Announcement**
2022 Diverse Sexualities Book Award Competition
The Diverse Sexualities Research and Education Institute (DSREI) is pleased to announce the 2022 Diverse Sexualities Book Award competition, nominations are being invited now. The goal of the award is to recognize the best recent book that contributes to the understanding of Diverse Sexualities (sexual identities, sexual orientations, sexual behaviors, sexual interests, gender identities, gender orientations, gender expressions, relationship identities, relationship orientations, and relationship structures not accepted by the dominant culture).
Please feel free to forward this notice copying the DSREI Book Award Chair, Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D.
Please check out our website https://dsrei.org and join our mailing list https://mailchi.mp/
The deadline for submitting nominations is January 1, 2022. The books should be sent directly to the members of the Awards Selection Committee.
Nominations should be sent to:
Diverse Sexualities Research and Education Institute
4304-18th Street, #14752
San Francisco, CA 94114
or send us an email.
DSREI Book Award Committee:
Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D., Chair (613) 563-0846
Maura Devereux, PA-C
David Hersh, Ph.D.
Reece Malone, MPH, DHS
Anna Randall, MSW, MPH, DHS
**Job Opportunities**
Perinatal and Women’s Mental Health Instructor-Level Clinical Psychology Scholar
Northwestern Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
We are pleased to announce that we are recruiting two clinical psychology scholars seeking advanced training in women's mental health with a focus on perinatal mental health and reproductive psychology for a one year clinical-research position beginning July/August 2021 with an optional second year for those interested in research. We offer a competitive salary of $60,000 per year plus benefits, in addition to our comprehensive training program.
Application Eligibility & Requirements:
- Complete an APA approved internship
- Licensed to practice clinical psychology by the IDFPR in the State of Illinois prior to the anticipated start date of the program
- Candidate should have strong clinical background with experience in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic mental disorders.
Please send a Personal Statement – (one page maximum) describing your interests in perinatal and women’s mental health, achievements, and career goals (optional – include interests/goals in research), curriculum vitae, and two (2) letters of recommendation (to be emailed directly by the writer). Admissions are rolling until the positions are filled. Please send documents by email to: Barbara Sutcliffe, Program Assistant, b-sutcliffe@northwestern.edu See this document for additional information.
Program Director - Our Bodies Ourselves Today
Who we are: Our Bodies Ourselves Today is building a world-class online platform that will provide women and girls, trans men, and nonbinary folks from all backgrounds with the most up-to-date, trustworthy, and inclusive information about our health, sexuality, and well-being.
We plan to launch in 2021 with these core content areas: Childbirth | Heart Health | Menarche to Menopause | Sexuality | Abortion & Contraception | Gender-Based Violence | Mental Health | Aging Well
In each area, our experts will combine the most current fact- and science-based information with personal stories, all in an intersectional feminist political context. We are committed to addressing the needs and voicing the perspectives of women and girls across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, age, ability, nationality, legal or immigration status, gender, belief, and all other distinctions.
We’re seeking a dynamic candidate to become our first Program Director. You have a passion for women’s health communication and are excited about building a powerful feminist resource in a social justice-oriented environment. You are highly competent, with the ability to see the big picture while paying attention to important details. You have experience building relationships with key stakeholders.
Click here for more information.
**Request for Participants in the Development of Trans Affirmative Content**
Seeking trans-affirmative mental health professionals who want to help improve mental health training around transgender-spectrum (trans) health!
We are developing an educational tool that tests and teaches mental health professionals about trans health. This tool, called the Trans Health Educational Tool, is composed of several clinical situations, with multiple-choice questions, and educational feedback. It will be used in training courses, self-assessments, and as a research tool. You can find out more information about the tool, the study, and the researcher facilitating this work at this website.
Your role if you participate
- Provide feedback on the situations, questions, and educational materials.
- Three confidential and anonymous online surveys (20-40 minutes each).
- Chance to win one of two $100 prizes. This money can also be donated to Trans Lifeline.
Together, we can transform and enhance mental health training and research!
Interested? Email sofia.melendez@queensu.ca