Meeting/Society Announcements
Posted: 02/01/2012
A one day Spring Conference
Organised by BASE
Sexual Confidence - Challenging Unhelpful Beliefs
Saturday 31st March 2012
Rootes Building, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL UK
BASE is innovative and proactive in the field of Sexual Education in the UK. This Spring Conference gives fresh approaches to old issues, provides resources and techniques for all researchers, sexual educators and healthcare professionals working in the field of human sexuality to inspire sexual confidence in their user groups. Empowering people to enjoy sexual expression in a manner of their choosing that is both fulfilling and pleasurable is part of BASE’s mission statement. We have invited a diverse group of expert speakers including researchers, medics, therapists and educators who are active in this field. Our aim is to support you whatever your discipline to raise sexual confidence with your patients, clients or user groups.
Many people through their lack of appropriate knowledge, disability, illness, accident or medical intervention may be denied the sexual freedoms and choices that the rest of society can enjoy. They may feel that they do not have the opportunities that others have and believe there are no options open to them. Our conference wants to lift the lid on some of these sensitive topics, challenge those unhelpful or false beliefs and give you the opportunity to see what others are doing in their field and discover where you can make a difference in your practice.
Enable and Empower – Inspire Sexual Confidence
BASE’s trademark Speed Networking showcased at WAS Glasgow this year will also be running concurrently so you will have valuable extra opportunities to network with colleagues in your field and beyond, in your area and beyond. Also this year to maximise those networking opportunities we are offering Date-à-BASE which is a pre-arranged rendezvous that you can prepare before the conference by joining our ‘find a contact Date-à-BASE’. Full details are on the opt-in part of the Registration Form.
I urge you to attend what we know to be an exciting and stimulating conference.
Mary Clegg
Chair
For more information click here!
Posted: 05/12/2011
SAVE THE DATES!
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research
Sexual Well-Being: Crossroads of Culture, Psychology, and Physiology
March 29-31, 2012
Chicago, Illinois
This meeting is open to all professionals interested in the topic of sexuality. Attendees need not be SSTAR members or specialists in sexual health.
The 2012 SSTAR Annual Meeting will be held from Thursday, March 29 through Saturday March 31 at the Intercontinental Hotel, an elegant historic building. The hotel is in the heart of the Magnificent Mile, the cultural and shopping center of the city.
Program Highlights:
- Full-day course for general clinicians reviewing state of the art assessment and treatment of sexual disorders
- Half-day workshops on specialized topics
- Poster sessions of current research on sexual disorders
- Invited and peer-reviewed talks by experts in sexuality on a wide variety of topics reflecting the latest research findings and evidence-based clinical practice
In addition to the exciting scientific program, the conference will offer many opportunities to spend time with colleagues and experience Chicago. The meeting includes a reception, an architectural walking tour of some of the beautiful buildings for which Chicago is famous, and fellowship dinners at local restaurants to meet up with colleagues and make new professional acquaintances.
Program and registration information will be available at www.sstarnet.org in October 2011. For more information:
SSTAR Scientific Program Chair: Kathryn Hall, PhD, kathrynhall@comcast.net; (609) 683-5252
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Shirley Baron, PhD and Richard Carroll, PhD shirleybaron@gmail.com; (312) 527-2940 and rcarroll@nmff.org; (312) 695-2323
Administrator: Linda Getty;
lindag@celticchicago.com; Tel: (847) 647-8832; Fax: (847) 647.8940
Society for Sex Therapy and Research, 6311 W. Gross Point Road, Niles, IL 60714
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Miscellaneous
Posted: 01/31/2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Behavioural Sciences
State of the Art Sexuality Research in Canada
We invite submissions for a special issue of the Canadian Journal of
Behavioural Sciences on sexuality research in Canada. Canada has been a
leader in sex research in North America and beyond. This special issue of
the CJBS is intended to highlight the excellent contributions from
researchers and practitioners across Canada. As such, the issue will not
focus on one area of sex research, but rather canvass top quality research
across the country.
The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2012. This special issue will be
guest edited by Elke Reissing and Caroline Pukall. All submissions will
undergo full peer review before any acceptance for publication.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to: www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cbs under
the Instructions to Authors.
The cover letter submitted with your manuscript must indicate that the
submission is for this special issue.
Questions about the special issue can be addressed to Dr. Elke Reissing at
reissing@uottawa.ca and Dr. Caroline Pukall at
caroline.pukall@queensu.ca
Posted: 12/13/2011
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Special Mindfulness Issue of Sexual and Relationship Therapy
Editors: Meg Barker & Lori Brotto
In the last decade there has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness and its implications for therapy. However, there has been relatively little explicitly addressing the possibilities of mindfulness practice for sexual and relationship therapy, or the ways in which mindfulness theories make sense of sexual difficulties and relationship problems. This special issue looks to bring together those currently writing on mindfulness as it relates to sex and sexuality, and to intimate relationships, in a therapeutic context.
Meg Barker and Lori Brotto invite empirical or review papers (maximum 6000 words) and commentaries, clinical case reports, and opinion pieces (maximum 1200 words) on mindfulness . Commentaries and opinion pieces will only be reviewed by the Editors, papers will also be sent for external peer review. The deadline for abstract submissions is end of April 2012 (full papers by end of October 2012).
Appropriate topics include:
- Overviews of the literature on different mindfulness therapies which might be relevant to sexual and/or relationship therapy
- Reviews of the research on mindfulness therapies for sexual and/or relationship therapy
- Buddhist and mindfulness theories of sex and sexuality, bodies and embodiment
- Mindfulness therapies for sexual difficulties
- Mindfulness and (sexual) pain
- Mindfulness and desire
- Mindful couple therapy
- Outcome or process research on mindfulness therapies for various sexual and/or relationship issues
- Mindfulness relationship practices, such as insight dialogue
- Mindfulness and relationship conflict
- Meditation practices in sexual and/or relationship therapy
- Bringing mindfulness therapies together with other approaches in sexual and/or relationship therapy
- Various relationship possibilities opened up by a mindfulness approach
Informal enquiries and abstract submissions should be directed to: Dr Meg Barker (m.j.barker@open.ac.uk) and Dr. Lori Brotto (Lori.Brotto@vch.ca).
Instructions for authors available on: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1468-1994&linktype=44
Final manuscripts to be submitted via journal website and marked 'for mindfulness special issue'.
Posted: 11/29/2011
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia seeks applicants for the 2012-2013 Health Policy Leadership Fellowship Program.
Applicants eligible to apply must have received their Ph.D., an equivalent doctoral degree, or M.D. with completed residency training, prior to the start of the fellowship program. All fellowships are for a 10 month period, beginning in September and ending in June of the following year. Based on qualifications and departmental needs, some fellows will have the opportunity to receive faculty appointments with MSM academic departments. This would include shared time and responsibilities with the supporting department. All positions will be full time, requiring residence in Atlanta, Georgia.
Postdoctoral fellows will receive a minimum $50,000 stipend, based on level of appointment and departmental affiliation. Fringe benefits through MSM, including health, vision, and dental insurance, are provided. In addition, fellows receive allowances for books, conferences, travel, and other program-related expenses.
The Health Policy Leadership Fellowship Program includes formal and informal instruction, policy leadership shadowing, and learning experiences with government, business, health care, public health, and community partners, bimonthly journal club, and health policy leadership forums. In addition, fellows have practice, teaching, and/or research responsibilities with supporting academic departments, community-based practicum experiences, and complete a health policy research project. Fellows also participate in the National Center for Primary Care Faculty Development Program. The fellowship's major focus areas include leadership, health policy, and health equity with concentrations in both behavioral and sexual health.
The application deadline for the 2012-2013 fellowship program is January 13, 2012. Applications and further information are available at http://shli.msm.edu (follow “Our Programs” and “Division of Health Policy” links)
Please contact Harry J. Heiman, M.D., M.P.H. at hheiman@msm.edu with any questions.
Posted: 11/22/2011
The SSTAR Health Professional Book Awards Committee is delighted to announce the winner and recognize a book of exceptional merit selected for the 2012 awards, to be presented at the annual SSTAR meeting in Chicago, March 29- 31, 2011. Eight books were submitted and the following were chosen from an outstanding field of nominees:
The winner is Rehabilitating Sexual Offenders: A Strength-Based Approach by William L. Marshall, Ph.D., Liam E. Marshall, Ph.D., Geris A. Serran, Ph.D. and Matt D. O'Brien, M.A., M.Sc. . This book exemplifies superb integration of therapy and research. The authors report excellent, methodologically sound, outcome data and demonstrate how to work effectively with a population that many clinicians prefer to avoid. It represents an important departure from the traditional approach in the treatment of sex offenders, moving the field from a "correctional" mindset to a psychotherapy framework. This book offers real hope to the therapist the client and society, that substantive and enduring change in sexual behaviour can be attained. Indeed, it can make this world a better and safer place.
For exceptional merit, we recognize:
Treating Sexual Desire Disorders: A Clinical Casebook edited by Sandra R. Leiblum, Ph.D.. This extraordinary volume brings together a collection of approaches which deal with the most common and vexing of sexual problems: Low sexual desire. This book will appeal to a broad base of therapists, offering an abundance of case examples and covering the spectrum of clinical conceptualizations, evaluation and treatment approaches associated with sexual desire problems. It will prove invaluable to even experienced clinicians, providing thought-provoking and often divergent, new ways to think about a common presenting complaint.
Our compliments and congratulations to all!
SSTAR Health Professional Book Awards Committee
Karen M. Donahey, PhD
Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD (Chair)
Joseph Lo Piccolo, PhD
Stephen Snyder, MD
Daniel N. Watter, EdD |