This course aims to facilitate the following practice applications for psychologists that are encouraged by the American Psychological Association (APA) within their “Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women” (2007):
Guideline 6: Further training regarding abuse and trauma-related theory and treatment and interventions and models that are helpful for countering the negative impacts of culture and media on girls and women; Emphasize a strength and empowerment perspective in psychotherapy treatment, research, advocacy, teaching, consultation, and supervision; Participate in ongoing educational activities and incorporate into their practice information about…strategies that empower girls and women.
Guideline 5: Gain specialized education, training and experience with issues particularly relevant to the experiences and problems of women and girls including, but not limited to, treatment of trauma and its sequelae; Be mindful of the ways in which values and attitudes about salient social issues may influence practice with girls and women.
Guideline 4: Be aware of assumptions in theory, research, and practice that are noninclusive and to use theories and practices that pay equal attention to relational and autonomous qualities; Challenge information and hypotheses that may be inconsistent with common assumptions about gender and other diverse identities.
Guideline 1: Strive to be aware of socialization processes, to recognize stereotyping, and to communicate the subtle ways in which beliefs and behaviors related to gender may affect the life experiences and well-being of girls and women…
Guideline 8: Strive to make unbiased, appropriate assessments and diagnoses by considering multiple relevant aspects of the experiences of girls and women.
Guideline 3: Help women and girls understand the impact of bias and discrimination so they can better overcome the impact of obstacles that are external in origin, as well as internal.
Guideline 7: Make efforts to help women and girls develop an improved sense of initiative and resilience, personal power, and expand non-stereotyped alternatives and choices.
Guideline 6: Further training regarding abuse and trauma-related theory and treatment and interventions and models that are helpful for countering the negative impacts of culture and media on girls and women; Emphasize a strength and empowerment perspective in psychotherapy treatment, research, advocacy, teaching, consultation, and supervision; Participate in ongoing educational activities and incorporate into their practice information about…strategies that empower girls and women.
Guideline 5: Gain specialized education, training and experience with issues particularly relevant to the experiences and problems of women and girls including, but not limited to, treatment of trauma and its sequelae; Be mindful of the ways in which values and attitudes about salient social issues may influence practice with girls and women.
Guideline 4: Be aware of assumptions in theory, research, and practice that are noninclusive and to use theories and practices that pay equal attention to relational and autonomous qualities; Challenge information and hypotheses that may be inconsistent with common assumptions about gender and other diverse identities.
Guideline 1: Strive to be aware of socialization processes, to recognize stereotyping, and to communicate the subtle ways in which beliefs and behaviors related to gender may affect the life experiences and well-being of girls and women…
Guideline 8: Strive to make unbiased, appropriate assessments and diagnoses by considering multiple relevant aspects of the experiences of girls and women.
Guideline 3: Help women and girls understand the impact of bias and discrimination so they can better overcome the impact of obstacles that are external in origin, as well as internal.
Guideline 7: Make efforts to help women and girls develop an improved sense of initiative and resilience, personal power, and expand non-stereotyped alternatives and choices.
Where
The Institute for Sexual Health ISH400 South Beverly Drive
Suite 316
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Driving Directions
Contact
Dr. Lisa MeneshianThe Institute for Sexual Health
310-286-1300
admin@sexualtreatmentprograms.com
Foundational SAITM Training Course at
The Institute for Sexual Health (ISH)
This is a multi-day training course for for sex addiction-compulsivity clinicians, educators and academic professionals with an emphasis on psychological treatment. Early registration to this training course is recommended.
This course offers 28 CE credits approved by the California BBS (PCE 5649)!
When: Starts Thursday, May 1, 2014, at 9:00AM and ends Sunday, May 4
Where: The Institute for Sexual Health - ISH, 400 South Beverly Drive, STE 316, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Cost:
- Early Registration (on or before April 15, 2014): $2,000
- Regular Registration (after April 15, 2014): $2200
- Registration for CSAT or CSAT-in-training: $1800
The Foundational SAITM Training Course serves as a clinical resource for professionals who treat partners, couples, children, and families that are impacted by compulsive sexual behavior and sex addiction disorders. The course aims to build on and enhance professionals' knowledge of trauma, reactions and symptoms of trauma, and the treatment of trauma, as presented in the context of the traumatic impact of sex addiction-compulsivity to self and others. This course will expose professional to the critical paradigm shift, from the traditionally held “co-sex addiction” conceptual model used to treat partners impacted by sex addiction-compulsivity, towards the emerging Sex Addiction-Induced Trauma Model. This training will articulate how the co-sex addiction model can be a form of diagnostic mislabeling, and is wrought with ethical and moral challenges that are rooted in gender bias. This course aims to introduce professionals to the evolution in the field of sex addiction-compulsivity towards a model that recognizes and treats the significant trauma experienced by female partners of sex addicts, as a result of the associated patterns of relational perpetration, violation, and abuse in the context of an intimate relationship and family system; psychologists will be able to integrate sex addiction-induced trauma into a broader systemic and relational model. The course will expose professionals to the clinical treatment and management of this specific type of trauma and its complex symptomatology.
The primary aim of this course is to advocate for the human rights of women who seek psychological treatment for the impact that sex addiction has had on them. The course aims to challenge what society has come to know as “normal,” which is a form of gender bias that has seemingly leaked into common psychological practice; that sexual entitlement is prioritized over basic human rights. The goal of this course is to follow the APA ethics code, and to utilize specific recommendations and guidelines for working with women set forth by the APA, to help increase clinicians' awareness, knowledge, and skills in psychological practice with women and help enhance gender sensitive psychological practice with women; specifically, women impacted by sex addiction-compulsivity.