Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the FrameDecember 2010
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Greetings!
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Welcome to our December Newsletter. This is the last newsletter of 2010 and I am sure we're all looking forward to a little time off over the holiday period.
This is still going to be a busy month for us here at Pink Therapy as we join with colleagues in marking World AIDS Day today as well as attending what looks to be a very interesting evening entitled Transitioning Gender: The Challenges of Radical Technologies. Last weekend Olivier Cormier-Otaño and I completed our chapter on Gender and Sexual Minority Therapy for the next edition of the Sage Handbook on Counselling and Psychotherapy and submitted it to the editor. We've also submitted our Pass List to the Accreditation Board of Middlesex University for our current cohort of Students to receive their Certificates of Award and will hold a private graduation ceremony for them later this month. We've also interviewed for the next intake of students into the Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy and have one or two places left to fill before the course starts in January. On a personal note I was delighted to see my former supervisor, mentor and friend Dr Bernard Ratigan being honoured by the British Psychoanalytic Council for his immense contribution to advancing the theory and practice of British Psychoanalytic thinking (see below for the full article). I hope you have had as fulfilling a year as we have and that you get a good break over the holidays and no attendant stress related illnesses! Well, one can live in hope!
Dominic DaviesDirector |
Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy
1 year course from Sat 22 Jan 2011
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Pink Therapy is pleased to be able to offer the UK's only professional training course for counsellors, psychotherapists and clinical and counselling psychologists in working with sexual minority clients from a non-pathologising perspective.
We offer you:
Twenty training days over a year.
You will be part of a small supervision group - meeting more or less monthly (50 hours supervision) on a mixture of weekends and some Fridays. It is envisaged some developmental and experiential work will take place in this group as well as clinical discussions about clients or clinical issues. It is not intended to replace your regular clinical supervision. The groups will be facilitated by our Clinical Associates Damian McCann and Leah Davidson both or whom have extensive experience of group supervision. You will also attend a 11 training days from our core training programme of workshops.
Students are expected to work with at least two sexual minority clients per week, (and we will try and help you find those clients if necessary), although Pink Therapy is not responsible for finding clients for you though, and you should have reasonable plans for access to a suitable pool of clients.
We have been awarded course accreditation by Middlesex University
We have re-scheduled this course to start in Jan 2011 and will be offering it as an intensive training course at a reduced cost.
We have one or two places left on this course, so please contact us if you are interested. We may even be able to help with finding clients
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with Judy Yellin
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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.
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Responding to violent and abusive couple relationships with Damian Mc Cann
Saturday 12 February 2011
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Participants will be introduced to developments in thinking about the nature and extent of abuse within these relationships, as well as explanations for the abusive patterns which emerge over time.
Challenges to the victim/perpetrator divide and learning about the specificities of same-sex partner violence and abuse as distinct from heterosexual partner violence will also form part of the discussion. Strategies for intervention and questions concerning the impact of such abuse will also be explored and participants will be encouraged to bring their own practice issues and dilemmas for exploration.
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Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy with Naomi Adams & Dominic Davies
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th February 2011
|  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, as well as clients involved in Kink/BDSM practices. 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.
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Thinking it Over with Charles Neal
Next meeting 14 Jan 2011 and then bi-monthly after this.
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 Clinical Associate, Charles Neal offering the opportunity to work closely with a small group of therapists with special interest in issues concerning sexual minority communities. Charles works from our Archer Street Office. Each meeting will focus on the training and development needs of the group members and also be influenced by the group members respective current interests in the emerging fields of gender and sexual minority therapy. Charles is co-editor of the Pink Therapy Trilogy of textbooks and has been running this mentoring group for the past two years He may suggest some reading before the workshop so that the group can have an informed dialogue on a contemporary issue; he also imagines you might want to use the space for case discussion, or to work through challenging ethical issues, or to reflect on your practice in other ways. This would aim to enhance your supervision and training elsewhere. Pay one term in advance £130 term The group runs from 1pm-4.30pm Contact: charles.neal@pinktherapy.com Tel: 01424 719123 |
PACE Health Camps
A service for women by women in the LBTQ community
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 Want to be healthier & happier?
Improve your diet?
Stop smoking?
Start exercising?
Or reduce drinking?
We can offer support!This is a Free & exciting volunteer lead service, offering 3 - 4 consultations, empowering & supporting women to take control & improve their own health.To make an appointment contact Hilary Knack
e: women.health@pacehealth.org.uk
t: 020 7700 1323Supporting women making realistic changes, suiting their lifestyles, improving their health!Find out about the service, women's workshops or how to volunteer via
www.pacehealth.org.uk/Women+Getting+Active |
PACE Family Service
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The Pace Family Service is a unique service offering professional support to LGBT families, couples and individuals and heterosexual family members dealing with an LGBT family or relationship issue. We currently have some capacity in the service for new referrals for:
- Family Therapy
- Couples Counselling
- Individual Family Support
- Telephone Counselling (calls free from UK landlines)
- Ad Hoc Telephone and Email Support (calls free from UK landlines)
- LGBT Parenting Group
- Group for victims of LGBT domestic violence (Free)
- Training for Adoption and Social Services Teams around working with LGBT parents
PACE is based in North London. Telephone Counselling, phone and email support are available nationally.
Some services are free or low cost, for others there is a fee. Where there is no charge voluntary donations are appreciated.
For more information about any of these services, to refer yourself or to make a referral please contact: Jo Beecham, Family Services Manager, on 0207 715 0367, or call or email PACE Family Support Helpline directly on 0808 1807 223
Email: pace.helpline@pacehealth.org.uk
(Mon 9.30am-12.30pm and Thurs 6.30-8.30pm) |
INTERNATIONAL SURVEY ON SUCCESSFUL AGING AND LATER LIFE CHALLENGES
Call for Transgender/Intersex/DSD/Cross-Dresser/Gender Queer-Identified Survey Participants
| We are looking for individuals who are willing to participate in an international research survey aimed at understanding how individuals with "non-traditional" gender identities (transgender, transsexual, cross-dresser, trans-queer, gender queer, intersex, DSD, and other gender identities) prepare to address traditional later life challenges such as retirement, health care, money challenges and other later life problems that might arise as they age.
Current research in aging speaks of the importance of a number of factors that contribute to successful aging in a population. Among these areas of importance are planning for later life challenges. With the growing number of transgender-identified and intersex/DSD-identified elders worldwide, we hope to gain more information about how transgender-identified and intersex/DSD-identified persons are preparing for later-life. Your information will be used to help develop positive aging programs for intersex/DSD-identified and transgender-identified individuals. This research represents first of a kind research in this area. If you decide to take part, we will ask you to fill out the online survey located at the following web-address
https://survey.vcu.edu/surveys/TAKT5X
The survey should take you approximately 15 minutes of your time. Everything that we learn about you in the study will be confidential. The survey is anonymous. If we publish the results of the study in a scientific magazine or book, we will not identify you in any way. No agency or organization will be allowed to see the survey results. Your decision to take part in this study is voluntary. You are free to choose not to take part in the study.
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Report on Lesbian Headed Households
finds 0% Abuse
|  The Williams Institute, a research center on sexual orientation law and public policy at UCLA School of Law, announces new findings from the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), the longest-running study ever conducted on American lesbian families (now in its 24th year). In an article published today in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the 17-year-old daughters and sons of lesbian mothers were asked about sexual abuse, sexual orientation, and sexual behavior.
The paper finds that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents report having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or other caregiver. This contrasts with 26% of American adolescents who report parent or caregiver physical abuse and 8.3% who report sexual abuse.
According to the authors, "the absence of child abuse in lesbian mother families is particularly noteworthy, because victimization of children is pervasive and its consequences can be devastating. To the extent that our findings are replicated by other researchers, these reports from adolescents with lesbian mothers have implications for healthcare professionals, policy makers, social service agencies, and child protection experts who seek family models in which violence does not occur."
On sexual orientation, 2.8% of the NLLFS adolescents identified as predominantly to exclusively homosexual.
The study was conducted by Nanette Gartrell, MD, Henny Bos, PhD (University of Amsterdam), and Naomi Goldberg, MPP (Williams Institute). Principal investigator Nanette Gartrell, MD, is a 2010 Williams Distinguished Scholar, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF, and affiliated with the University of Amsterdam.
Also, visit the NLLFS website at www.nllfs.org
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Dr Bernard Ratigan
Award for Outstanding Professional Leadership |  Dr Bernard Ratigan, a Leicester-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and independent scholar, has recently been given a special award by the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) for "outstanding professional leadership". He has long standing teaching contacts with the Institute of Lifelong Learning and the Clinical Psychology Doctorate in the University. The BPC is the umbrella body for all the main psychoanalytic trainings and institutes in the UK.
The citation states that he has made a distinguished contribution to keeping the psychoanalytic community aware of its responsibility to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people; for his role as a teacher and critic of psychoanalysis in the education and training of psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists; and, for his work in attempting to establish a profession of adult psychotherapy in the NHS.
Dr Ratigan was unable to receive the award personally as he is currently ill. His former trainee and colleague Dr Richard Fox, consultant psychiatrist in CBT in Nottingham received it for him. Dr Fox commented that there are generations of psychiatrists in the region who still think that Freud spoke with a Lancashire accent. He spoke of the warmth of the reception of the news of Dr Ratigan's award.
Dr Ratigan said he was delighted to receive the award but remains dissatisfied at the slow pace of change in British psychoanalysis with regard to taking seriously Freud's radical ideas on the complexities of human sexualities.
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That's all for this month, thanks for your attention, and please do send us things that have a specific relevance to people working with gender and sexual minority clients. |
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Dominic Davies
Pink Therapy
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