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Greetings!
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Seasons Greetings and we hope you're getting ready for a pink christmas!
This is our last newsletter of the year and the office will be closed between 21 Dec and 2nd January.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on our workshop and other events in 2008.
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| Last Call - Essentials in Sexual Minority Therapy |
 This is a four-day course which we've run a few times now and which has always been very popular with therapists wishing to understand more about working with gender and sexual minorities. The next course starts in January and runs until April. We will be holding it in our offices in Soho, which means group size will be limited.
We have a few places left, and first priority with be given to people wishing to undertake all four days. The course includes fairly extensive pre and post course reading and is suitable for therapists of all levels of experience, irrespective of theroretical or sexual orientation. Full course details are online here
This will be the last time we run it as a four-day course. From September it will become a five-day course as we are finding there is so much material to cover, and we want to allow more time for discussion and processing.
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Supervision of Sexual Minority Therapy
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 This one-day seminar is aimed at supervisors of all levels of experience who supervise therapists working with gender and sexual minorities. There are only three places left on the seminar on Friday 25 January 2008. The seminar on 29 February is now full. Click here for full details
We will be running these seminars at a future date. We've been running them on Fridays' from 10-4pm If you would prefer them to be on a Saturday from 12-6 please let us know. training@pinktherapy.com |
| The Development of the Self & the Function of the Therapeutic Alliance |
 How do we get a self? What do we mean by 'having a sense of self'? How secure or insecure do we feel about who we are and our connections to others? How is our sense of self shaped in a homophobic, gendered culture?
This workshop will explore the idea that, from the beginning of life, we construct our 'senses of self', including our sexual and gendered selves, from our experiences of being in interaction with others. We will look at some ideas about the relational nature of the 'self', drawn from contemporary approaches to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Using concepts from attachment theory, we will think about how our sense of ourselves develops initially within the context of our early relationships with others, and continues to emerge and change through our interactions with significant others throughout life.
Research into early attachments has shown the enduring and vital necessity of a secure and reliable connection to other people who are attuned to what we are feeling and who can respond appropriately. We will explore how traumatic failures of attunement, mutual recognition and response can impact negatively on the development of a stable yet flexible sense of self, and diminish our ability to create mutually satisfying close relationships throughout life. We will think in particular about the role played by shame and rejection in undermining a secure sense of self for both sexual minority clients and their therapists.
We will consider the potential of the therapeutic relationship to offer a secure base and facilitate the development of sufficient trust and safety to enable a different experience of 'self with other' that can allow the emergence of new, more creative 'senses of self'.
Saturday 20 January 2008 1pm - 7pm with Judy Yellin who is a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical associate with Pink Therapy. Full details here & Booking Form here
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| Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy |
 Unless one does a specialist sex therapy training, one is probably ill prepared for understanding much about sexuality issues.
This two day workshop provides an introduction to some of the key issues in working therapeutically with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients with psychosexual concerns. The workshop will cover current models of sexual response, the classification of sexual difficulties and a brief review of the literature and then explore some of the implicit assumptions in these hetero-normative models.
By widening our understanding of sex, sexuality and sexual difficulties we will give workshop participants an opportunity to explore some of the multiple contexts (sexuality, gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion etc) that shape both clinicians and clients views of sexual difficulties and diverse sexual practices.
We will then move on to interactive exercises with the aim of helping participants develop practical skills in assessment and therapeutic interventions with individual clients and couples.
We hope that by the end of the two days, participants will feel a greater sense of confidence in incorporating discussions of sex and sexual functioning into their general clinical work and/or developing their psychosexual therapy.
Course will take place on Saturday 17 Feb 1pm - 7pm and Sunday 18 Feb 9am - 5pm. It will be facilitated by Dr Naomi Adams and Dominic Davies. Further details here
We will also be running a more advanced workshop for experienced sex therapists and people who have undertaken this workshop in April 2008.
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| Help Needed: Personal Development Scale & Sexual Relationship & Satisfaction Assessment Tools |
 "Dr. David Schnarch is a world renowned clinical psychologist, creator of the Crucible ® Differentiation Approach to therapy and the author of Passionate Marriage, Resurrecting Sex, and Constructing the Sexual Crucible. We have developed these instruments that are essential to his innovative approach to therapy which he recently demonstrated on Dateline NBC. Furthermore these newly created Crucible ® instruments are greatly needed in the field of couple and sex therapy.
Your involvement in this study is completely confidential. It should take about 20-45 minutes of your time. If you are interested in participating, simply click here to complete the survey
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| Help Needed: LGBT National Alcohol Dependency Survey 2007 / 2008 |
 If you know someone who has an alcohol problem, please get them to complete this survey:
http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=6a5yj2dtjlbgc9k360087
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The LGBT Mental Health Syllabus for Psychiatrists
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 A new website has been created by the LGBT Issues Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP)
The site's goal is to teach psychiatry residents about caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trangender, and intersex patients.
The LGBT Issues Committee hopes it will also be useful to all health and mental health trainees and practitioners.
The site includes a series of modules that can be used sequentially to provide a comprehensive learning guide for working with LGBT patients.
The eight modules are:
* The History of Psychiatry and Homosexuality
* Taking a Sexual History with LBGT Patients
* Psychological Development & Life Cycle
* Psychotherapy
* Medical and Mental Health
* Transgender
* Intersex
* Diversity / People of Color
Each module has been designed to be a stand-alone unit on a specific topic concerning LGBT patients. All modules include learning goals and objectives.
Each module begins with a pre-test to help participants assess their existing knowledge about specific topics. After the main body of each module, a post-test helps assure that learning goals have been achieved.
Modules also have relevant links, resource lists, and references to facilitate deeper exploration of topics. http://www.aglp.org/gap/
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Memorial - Graham Perlman
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 Our colleague Graham Perlman died earlier this year after a fairly long illness. Graham was amongt the first group of clinical associates and he made a significant contribution to the the organisation and the profession.
We are going to hold an informal memorial for him on Friday 18th January 2008 and if you knew Graham and would be interested in attending, please contact Keith Silvester as soon as possible for more information. You can mail him at: keith.silvester@pinktherapy.com
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