44th Annual conference

conference Program AASECT Founder & STAFF Board of Directors CONtents Executive Director Founder Dee Ann Walker, CAE Patricia Schiller, MA, JD Director, Education Welcome 3 & Certification President Alphonsus Baggett, MEd William W. Finger, PhD, DST Conference Agenda 4 Membership Services President Elect Coordinator Pre-conference Workshops 6 P. Michele Sugg, MSW, LCSW, CST Janet Huynh Secretary Opening Plenary 7 Ricky Siegel, MS, CSE Welcome Reception 7 Treasurer Debra W. Haffner, MPH, MDiv, CSE Conference Workshops Membership Steering Committee Chair Friday, June 8 8 Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST Saturday, June 9 13 Certification Steering Committee Chair Sunday, June 10 17 Erika Pluhar, PhD, EdS, CSE Welcome from Outreach Steering Whipple Family Plenary 11 Committee Chair the Conference Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, PhD, Poster Session 1 11 LCSW, CST Planning Team! Social Events 12 Public Relations, Media & Advocacy Steering Conference Co-Chair Awards Luncheon 14 Committee Chair Christopher White, PhD, Michael McGee, MEd, CSE CSE Schiller Plenary 14 Professional Education Conference Co-Chair Steering Committee Chair Poster Session 2 16 Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, Donald Dyson, PhD, CSE RN, CSE Membership Business Meeting 16 Communications Steering Committee Chair Sunday Closing Plenary 18 Wayne Pawlowski, MSW, LICSW, CSE Exhibits Chair Mariotta Gary-Smith, MPH General Information 20

Volunteer Chair Hotel Map 23 Natalie Elliott, MA, LPC Social Media 101 24 Moderator & CE Chair Richelle Frabotta, MSEd, CSE …

…a movement towards and an understanding hybridity and duality - rock n roll/country of how cultures, philosophies, identities, music, Tex-Mex culture, a liberal island spiritualities, sexualities, ethnicities, in a conservative state, the rustic glory of practices, disciplines, etc., influence our the wild west meets the shining gleam of lives and form our experiences by weaving technology, and where new ideas sprout together the various parts of humanity, even from established traditions. This conference in places where conflict and contradiction strives to celebrate cultural and ethnic rule, to create a better way of life that is diversity, promotes the emergence of new more compassionate and promotes social ideas and technology out of tried and true justice through hard work, collaboration, approaches, and recognizes that our best and coalition-building. Austin is a city work is born out of intergenerational and that on the surface appears to be a place of interdisciplinary collaboration. contradictions, but is in reality a place of

Synergy! 2012 3 conference agenda

wed 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm registration and Information Texas Foyer 6.6 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Pre–conference Workshop (part 1) Texas 1-3

thu 8:00 am – 6:30 pm registration and Information Texas Foyer 6.7 8:00 am – 6:00 pm exhibits Open Texas 4 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Pre-conference Workshops see page 6 9:00 am – 5:00 pm AASECT Board of Directors’ Meeting Foot Hills 1 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm lunch (on your own) 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Pre-conference Workshops see page 6 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Student & First-timers’ Meeting Foot Hills 2 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Volunteer Training Foot Hills 2 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Opening Plenary Session: Deb Levine, BSW, MA 21st Century : Using Social and Mobile Media Effectively Texas 1-3

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Welcome Reception (Sponsored by Adam and Eve) Marker Patio and Marker 10

fri 7:00 am – 7:45 am tantric Meditation Hill Country D 6.8 7:15 am – 8:15 am AASECT Certification Information Q & A Session hill Country A 7:30 am – 8:30 am continental Breakfast Texas 4 8:00 am – 7:00 pm exhibits Open Texas 4 8:00 am – 5:00 pm registration and Information Texas Foyer 8:15 am – 9:15 am concurrent Workshops see page 8 9:15 am – 9:30 am coffee Break Texas 4 9:30 am – 11:30 am concurrent Workshops see page 8 11:30 am – 12:45 pm lunch (on your own) 11:45 am – 12:45 pm Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings Texas 5, Texas 6, Texas 7, hill Country A&B, Hill Country D 12:45 pm – 2:45 pm concurrent Workshops see page 9 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Break 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm concurrent Workshops see page 10

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Whipple Family Plenary: Amy Schalet, PhD The New A-B-C and Ds of Sexuality Education texas 1-3

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Poster Session 1 Texas 4 & Foyer 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm regional Meetings Big Bend Ballroom, Hill Country A&B, texas 5, Texas 6 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Dinner at Threadgill’s see page 12 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm An Evening of Burlesque Foothills 2

4 innovation. sexuality. tradition. sat 7:00 am – 7:45 am tantric Meditation Hill Country D 6.9 7:30 am – 8:30 am continental Breakfast Texas 4 8:00 am – 7:00 pm exhibits Open Texas 4 8:00 am – 5:00 pm registration and Information Texas Foyer 8:30 am – 9:30 am concurrent Workshops see page 13 9:30 am – 9:45 am coffee Break Texas 4 9:45 am – 11:45 am concurrent Workshops see page 13

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Awards Luncheon & Schiller Plenary: Walter Bockting, PhD What’s New in Transgender Health? Texas 1-3

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Break 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm concurrent Workshops see page 15 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm Break 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm concurrent Workshops see page 16 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Poster Session 2 Texas 4 & Foyer 7:15 pm – 7:45 pm Annual Business Meeting Foothills 1 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Screening of TRANS followed by Q & A Texas 1-3 sun 7:30 am – 8:30 am continental Breakfast Texas 4 8:00 am – 11:00 am registration and Information Texas Foyer 6.10 8:30 am – 10:30 am concurrent Workshops see page 17 10:30 am – 10:45 am Break Texas 4 10:45 am – 11:45 am concurrent Workshops see page 17 11:45 am – 12:00 pm Break

12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Closing Plenary Session: Bishop Yvette Flunder Sexuality & Religion: What’s Race Got to Do With It? Texas 1-3

*Full descriptions of workshops are available online at www.aasect.org/ conference/schedule.html.

CSC – AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor CSE – AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator CST – AASECT DST – AASECT Diplomate of

Synergy! 2012 5 pre-conference workshops

wednesday June 6 thursday June 7

1:00–6:00pm 8:00am–6:30pm 8:00am–6:00pm Registration and Information Registration and Exhibits Open Information

6:00–10:00pm 8:30am–12:30pm

Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) 12CE Texas 1-3 Sexual Attitude Reassessment 12CE Texas 1-3 (continued) Presenter: Jose Nanin, EdD, MCHES, CSE Presenter: Jose Nanin, EdD, MCHES, CSE Upon completion of the 2-day workshop, participants will: identify aspects of the wide spectrum of human sexual The SilverSAR™ – A Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop for arousal and behavior as these relate to their attitudes, values, the AASECT Community Dealing with Sexuality and Aging 8CE Hill Country A&B feelings and beliefs regarding these behaviors including topics of comfort and discomfort; increase personal comfort level Presenters: Anita Hoffer, PhD, EdD, Joan Garrity, Roberta when addressing and discussing a wide range of sexual topics Knowlton, LCSW and Wayne Pawlowksi, MSW, LICSW, CSE encountered by the educator, counselor or therapist; describe Upon completion of the day-long workshop, participants basic elements of sexual anatomy and functioning and ways will: understand the complexity and diversity of human sexual to alleviate ; list some of the ingredients expression, experience and concerns among older adults; list of positive and healthy sexuality; describe the positive and cultural stereotypes about sexuality and aging; identify how negative power of ; describe key ingredients those stereotypes impact older people and their feelings about to healthy intimate relationships and the basic elements their own sexuality and sexual expression; list some special/ of safer sex and sexual health care; increase awareness of unique issues related to and alternative lifestyles and behaviors; describe how culture and in older adults; identify their own personal attitudes, values, intersect; describe the relationship between feelings and beliefs about sexuality and aging and the sexual spirituality and sexual health; promote non-judgmental and needs and rights of older adults. respectful attitudes toward others and describe how attitudes, values, feelings, beliefs and sexual behaviors of others differ State of the Art of Supervision I 4CE Texas 5 from those of the SAR participant; increase awareness of Presenters: Gretchen Fincke, LCSW and Gina Ogden, the extent to which one may assume that personal attitudes, PhD, LMFT values, feelings and beliefs about particular aspects of Upon completion of the session, participants will: identify sexuality are “scientific facts” rather than one’s own thoughts; one supervisory technique used to improve your treatment explain how understanding the above issues (covered over the skills with clients; identify two strengths in your clinical course of both days) contribute to the ethical implementation approach that were identified in the pre-conference workshop; of sexuality education, counseling/therapy, and research. name three ethical concerns that might arise in the course of sex therapy; describe two areas of clinical growth that you recognized from participating in the workshop; describe a boundary issue that might affect your therapy or supervision; identify one aspect of AASECT supervision requirements that you learned today; name one pro and one con for conducting long distance supervision; state three reasons why it is important for sex therapists to have supervisors.

Some Ethical Dimensions of Sexuality Education 4CE Texas 7 Presenter: Dennis M. Dailey, DSW Upon completion of the session, participants will:

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identify a working definition/understanding of ethics as a Opening Plenary Session guiding principle in sexuality education; learn how variant ethical perspectives would result in differences in both the 6:00–7:30pm 1.5CE Texas 1-3 content and the delivery of sexuality education; clarify how 21st Century Sex Education: ethical standards can influence the teaching and the learning Using Social and Mobile Media Effectively experience; identify several ethical principles that might be Deb Levine, BSW, MA identified as essential aspects of any sexuality curriculum. Moderator: Christopher White, PhD, CSE

9:00–5:00pm The world is changing at a rapid pace. There is no longer a digital AASECT Board of Directors’ Meeting Foothills 1 divide based on race, ethnicity or socio-economic class. The digital 12:30–1:30pm divide is generational. The average 16-24 year old spends 70 hours a week in front of Lunch Break three screens, sometimes simultaneously. 90% of young adults have mobile phones, and most sleep 1:30–5:30pm next to them, turned on. Most people who have sex questions turn to search engines like Google, Sexual Attitude Reassessment 12CE Texas 1-3 (continued) Ask.com, and Bing. Deb Levine, BSW, MA, will share new data on how youth and young adults The SilverSAR™ - A Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop for use technology for their sexual and reproductive the AASECT Community Dealing with Sexuality and Aging health. She will also cover best practices, as well as 8CE Hill Country A&B (continued) measures of success for digital learning. Upon completion of the session, participants State of the Art of Supervision II 4CE Texas 5 (continued) will: understand the potential of social and mobile technology to extend the reach of sex education and broaden national conversations Sex Education Can Change the World: Dismantling Social Inequalities through Social Justice Sexuality Education about sexual health, relationships, and sexuality. 4CE Texas 7 Presenter: Bethany Stevens, JD, MA Upon completion of the session, participants will: describe three key components of social justice education and how these thursday June 7 relate to teaching about sexuality; lead an activity on social justice issues in a sexuality education setting by adapting the lesson plan covered in the workshop; increase the practice of incorporating social justice and social change into their sexuality education Welcome Reception work; demonstrate an awareness of the connections between 7:30–9:00pm racism, LGBTQ oppression, ageism, ablism, and classism by listing Marker Patio and Marker 10 concrete links these mainstream/marginalized groups share. Following the Opening Plenary Sponsored by Adam & Eve 4:30–5:00pm Please join us at the Welcome Reception in Students’ and First Timers’ Meeting Foothills 2 honor of new attendees, new members, past presidents and all who contribute to the field 5:00–5:30pm of sexuality. Volunteer Training Foothills 2

Synergy! 2012 7 conference workshops FRIday June 8

A Sex Guide for Orthodox Jewish Couples? You’re Kidding! 7:00–7:45am 1CE Texas 7 Tantric Meditation with Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW Presenter: David S. Ribner, DSW Hill Country D Moderator: Sorah Stein, MA, BCBA, CSE Upon completion of the session, participants will: gain 7:15–8:15am a greater understanding of the need for sex education for this population and to become familiar with a new tool to AASECT Certification Information Q&A Session Hill Country A fill this need.

Using Circles to Break Cycles: Stage 2 Recovery for the 7:30–8:30am Sexually Dysfunctional and Compulsive 1CE Hill Country A&B Continental Breakfast Texas 4 Presenter: Buster Ross, MA Moderator: TBD 8:00am–5:00pm 8:00am–7:00pm Upon completion of the session, participants will: be able to re-conceptualize certain 12-Step Registration and Exhibits Open approaches in a sex positive context; diagram behaviors Information with sexually dysfunctional clients using the “Three Circles” tool; build on this strategy and use it with couples.

8:15–9:15am Addressing Sexual Pain and Fear with Mindfulness: An Integrated Workshop for Medical and Mental Health Meet Them Where They Are: Can Sexuality Education Go Practitioners 1CE Texas 5 Down on Social Networking Sites? 1CE Texas 1-3 Presenter: Talli Yehuda Rosenbaum, PT, MSc Presenter: Becky Anthony, LCSW, MSW, MEd Moderator: Cay Crow, MA, LPC Moderator: Cheryl Radeloff, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: use a Upon completion of the session, participants will: mindfulness based treatment protocol to address anxiety identify sexuality education strategies that can be and aversion in women with sexual pain disorders. utilized specifically on social networking sites.

Understanding Swingers and the Swinging Lifestyle 9:15–9:30am 1CE Texas 6 Coffee Break Presenter: Edward M. Fernandes, PhD Moderator: DeAndrea Blaylock, MSW Upon completion of the session, participants will: 9:30–11:30am acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the subject matter. Transforming Fraternities’ Sexual Culture with Student- The Intersection of Sexual Deviance and Normative Centered Pleasure-Focused, Gender-Inclusive Sexuality Adolescent Sexuality 1CE Texas 7 Education 2CE Texas 1-3 Presenter: Sam Wallace, MS, LPC Presenter: Susan Stiritz, MBA, MSW, PhD, CSE Moderator: Betsy Cairo, PhD, HCLD Moderator: TBD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Upon completion of the session, participants will: identify and support the use of modified clinical list four primary barriers to gender synergy on college approaches in traditional sex offender treatment. campuses today-conditions that contribute to high rates of risky sex, and assault; list four lessons young men in this program affirmed helped them

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improve the sexual cultures in their fraternity houses; Sexuality Issues in and Chemical name four principles of intergroup dialogue, which foster Dependency 2CE Texas 5 gender synergy. Presenters: Lawrence Siegel, MA, Ricky Siegel, MS, CSE Moderator: Emilia Canahuati, MA BDSM Explorations: Spank Me, Tease Me, Tie Me, Upon completion of the session, participants will: Please Me 2CE Texas 6 identify some sexuality issues typically seen in all phases Presenter: Artemis Hunter of chemical dependency, as well as the often neglected Moderator: Tiffany D. Jones, MA concerns that can effectively couple these disciplines; Upon completion of the session, participants will: incorporate strategies for more effective recovery and learn how BDSM can be therapeutic and enhance relapse prevention in chemical dependency by better relationships; explore toys/equipment associated with addressing sexuality and sexual health issues. BDSM play, uses, and skillful applications.

Sexuality After Cancer: Issues & Solutions 11:30am–12:45pm 2CE Hill Country D Lunch Break Presenter: Ellen Barnard, MSSW Moderator: Anita Hoffer, PhD, EdD Upon completion of the session, participants will: 11:45am–12:45pm describe one significant physical or psychological effect Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings that cancer treatment has on sexual function; identify at Alternative Sex – Texas 7 least one specific strategy to address one psychological Medical – Hill Country D and one physiologic change caused by cancer treatment Sexuality & Aging – Texas 6 and affecting sexual function. Sexuality & Disability – Texas 5 Student – Big Bend Ballroom Paths to Sexual Healing: Extraordinary Technicques to Tantra – Hill Country A&B Expand Your Expertise and Grow Your Practice 2CE Texas 7 Presenters: Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT; Patti Britton, 12:45–2:45pm PhD; Linda Savage, PhD; Chelsea Wakefield, LCSW Exposing Influence: Helping your Students Understand Sex, Moderator: Gretchen Fincke, LCSW Love, & Relationships via the Media 2CE Texas 1-3 Upon completion of the session, participants will: Presenter: Ranee Alison Spina list four distinct approaches to addressing sexual issues Moderator: Richelle Frabotta, MSEd, CSE in the clinical setting that can complement medical Upon completion of the session, participants will: and pharmaceutical approaches; articulate at least one discover what are the top influencing media sources on sexual essential difference between treating sexual pathology behavior today; learn how to utilize the media’s content to and offering information that guides clients and students effectively convey sexually realistic messages to students. toward optimizing their own sexual health. Sex Ed Justice: Strategies for Building Community Media Training 2CE Hill Country A&B Partnerships for Sexuality Education 2CE Texas 6 (Space is limited to 8. Pre-registration is required) Presenter: Shannon Rauh, MEd, CSE Presenter: Michael McGee, MEd, CSE Moderator: Deepak Jumani, ACS, MBBS, PhD Moderator: Trina Scott, MPA Upon completion of the session, participants will: Upon completion of the session, participants will: explain Sex Ed Justice and Reproductive Justice; identify identify three key elements for effective media relations; strategies for aligning Sexuality Education, Reproductive describe at least one personal strength in handling media. Justice and Sex Ed Justice with marginalized communities.

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12:45–2:45pm (continued) 2:45–3:00pm

Utilizing Tantric Methods as Interventions in Sex Therapy Break Practice 2CE Hill Country D Presenter: Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW 3:00–4:00pm Moderator: Anne Karcher, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants Sexual Health Education for Health Professionals 1CE Texas 1-3 will: learn when to implement tantric methods in a psychotherapeutic practice setting; learn step by step Presenters: lore m. dickey, PhD, Eddie J. Turner, MD, MPH, guide to teaching tantric methods in a psychotherapeutic LeConté J. Dill, DrPH, Khusdeep Malhotra, DDS, MPH practice setting. Moderator: Anita Hoffer, PhD, EdD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Digging Deep: Understanding our Cultural Selves in describe methods for addressing the educational needs of Relation to Our Professional Work 2CE Texas 7 health professionals in addressing sexual needs of clients Presenters: Kimberly Jorgensen, MA and and patients with an emphasis on LGBT individuals. Carmen Cruz, PsyD Moderator: Emilia Canahuati, MA Charting a Course to Improve School-Based Sexual Health Education: The National Sexuality Education Standards Upon completion of the session, participants will: 1CE TK identify experiences of privilege and marginalization for themselves and for clients/constituents; integrate Presenters: Monica Rodriguez, MS and Barbara social justice framework and definitions with personal Huberman and professional experiences of cultural values related Moderator: P. Michele Sugg, MSW, LCSW, CST to sexuality. Upon completion of the session, participants will: increase awareness of the National Sexuality Education Media Training 2CE Hill Country A&B Standards and their academic and social context; (Space is limited to 8. Pre-registration is required) understand the application of the Standards to existing Presenter: Michael McGee, MEd, CSE and emerging student concerns about sexuality such Moderator: Betty Mooney, DArts as gender-based bullying, sexting, and and Upon completion of the session, participants will: disease prevention; know resources for effectively identify three key elements for effective media relations; introducing the Standards to their school stakeholders. describe at least one personal strength in handling media. Get Out of Your Head & Into Your Body! Improving Sex Sex Therapy Interwoven with Depth : Sensate Lives through Mindfulness 1CE Hill Country D Focus as Window onto the Sacred Other 2CE Texas 5 Presenter: Jennifer Gunsaullus, PhD Presenter: Constance Avery-Clark, PhD Moderator: Ellen Barnard, MSSW Moderator: Patti Britton, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Upon completion of the session, participants will: explain what mindfulness is and three ways it is beneficial describe the similarities between Masters & Johnson’s to participants’ work with clients. concepts of sexuality and sexual difficulties and those of dynamically oriented, and particularly Jungian, (Re)Defining Fidelity in Committed Relationships: How to Negotiate Non-Exclusivity Successfully 1CE Texas 7 psychology; describe and implement Masters & Johnson’s sensate focus as a method for experiencing what depth Presenter: James Fleckenstein psychology, and particularly Jungian psychology, mean by Moderator: DeAndrea Blaylock, MSW the Other and the Sacred. Upon completion of the session, participants will: evaluate with better confidence and a more complete understanding the appropriateness of negotiated non- exclusivity as a relationship choice for their clients. 10 innovation. sexuality. tradition. Tech alt sex assault/trauma spirituality/mindfulness LGBT women Relationships college sex ed disability/cancer therapy/Counseling race/ethnicity men DYSF/TX

Degendering Sex: It’s Not What You Have, It’s How You Use It 1CE Hill Country A&B poster 5:30-6:30pm

Presenter: Elizabeth Hawkins session 1 1CE Texas 4 & Foyer Moderator: Cay Crow, MA, LPC Upon completion of the session, Upon completion of the session, participants will: participants will: identify at least three identify and move away from socially created gender advances in the field of sexual health; critically norms as they apply to sexuality in order to better serve discuss new research in the field of sexual clients who fall on every part of the gender spectrum. health with at least three poster authors. Moderator: Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE A Relational Therapy Treatment Approach for Out of Control Sexual Behaviour 1CE Texas 5 Sexuality Education and Feminist Ethics Presenter: Robyn Salisbury, MA Presenter: Sharon Lamb, EdD Moderator: Cheryl Radeloff, PhD Evidence-Based Sexual Health Education in a Upon completion of the session, participants will: University Setting learn how to integrate a relational approach to whatever Presenter: Emily Luft treatment modality participants use for out of control Co-Presenters: Hannah E. Keel, Kelsey sexual behavior (OCSB). Mescher, Lian Markovich, Heather Eastman-Mueller, PhD, CHES

FRIday June 8 Differences in College Students’ Sexual Health Behaviors Based on Sexual Orientation Presenter: Sara B. Oswalt, MPH, PhD Whipple Family Plenary Co-Presenter: Tammy J. Wyatt, PhD, CHES 4:15–5:15pm 1CE Texas 1-3 Addressing the Sensitive Issue of Sex Workers in the Classroom The New A-B-C and Ds of Sexuality Education Presenter: Sarah Elspeth Patterson, MEd Amy Schalet, PhD Celebrating Relationships through Taoist Moderator: Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE and Tantric Traditions In the U.S., sexuality education has typically been guided Presenter: Suzann Robins, MALS, CHT by the abstinence-only framework, or a framework of Preliminary Effectiveness Evaluation of the sexual risk-taking. Neither of these frameworks provides ‘Playing the Game’ Sexual AssaultPrevention tools to approach sexuality as a normative developmental Theater Program and relational process. In this eye-opening plenary, Dr. Schalet draws Presenter: W. Gregory Thatcher, MSPH, PhD on the cross-national research from her new book Not Under My Co-Presenter: Steve Chandler, PhD, MSW Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex to illuminate “the new A-B-C-Ds” of adolescent sexuality education, and encourages us to Putting the Health Back into Sexuality think critically about how we can expand our approaches to working Education with adolescents on issues of sexuality, relationships, and health. Presenter: Laurie M. Wagner, MEd, PhD Learning Objectives: Upon completion of the session, participants will: identify contrasting cultural themes between Dutch and American approaches to adolescent sexuality and their respective impacts on adolescent sexual health outcomes; describe the four different components of the new A-B-C-Ds (Autonomy, Building healthy relationships, Connectedness, Diversity) of adolescent sexual health.

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6:30–7:30pm 8:30–10:30pm

Regional Meetings An Evening of Burlesque Eastern Region – Texas 5 The Jigglewatts Burlesque produced their first show in International Region – Texas 6 June of 2006. Now going stronger than ever in their sixth Mid-Continent Region – Big Bend Ballroom year, this exclusive boutique troupe features 6 classically Western Region – Hill Country A&B trained dancers, vocalists and actors whose brand of burlesque is upbeat, cheeky, clever, elegant and sexy all 7:00–8:30pm at the same time, inviting audiences of both men and women to join in the fun. Your share of the fun begins Dinner at Threadgill’s at 8:30 pm and concludes at 10:30 pm. Music, dancing, Tickets $30 (does not include alcohol) cash bar and dessert. Everyone is invited! When bootlegger and country music lover Kenneth Have dinner and end Threadgill opened his Gulf filling station just north the evening on a sassy, of the Austin city limits in 1933, he had more on his sweet note. (Guests mind than just pumping gas. He stood in line all are $20.) night to be the first person to own a beer license in the county. And soon after, his joint would become a favorite for traveling musicians interested in grabbing a drink after their gigs. The quintessential beer joint continued to flourish into the sixties, and changed with the social climate of the era by inviting the folkies, hippies and beatniks to his Wednesday night singing sessions with open arms. Threadgill’s love for people and music smoothed out the conflicts that usually occurred when longhairs crossed paths with rednecks, and because of this, a new culture tolerance emanated from the tavern, which had a profound effect upon its patrons and the music. Threadgill’s added a restaurant in 1981 and today, it’s the best place for Texas-style eats as well as long-neck beers. Join the AASECT party on Friday night, before an Evening of Burlesque. Tickets available at the registration desk. Limited to 60.

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Saturday June 9

7:00–7:45am Sex: What FTMs Enjoy! 1CE Texas 7 Presenters: lore m. dickey, PhD, S. L. Colt Meier, MA, Tantric Meditation with Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW Jamison Green, PhD Hill Country D Moderator: Gretchen Fincke, LCSW Upon completion of the session, participants will: 7:30–8:30am describe the types of sexual behavior that FTMs most commonly engage in and the level of satisfaction that Continental Breakfast Texas 4 is experienced.

Doing with Gay Men of African Heritage 8:00am–5:00pm 8:00am–7:00pm 1CE Hill Country A&B Registration and Exhibits Open Presenter: Jasper Lawson, PhD Information Moderator: Richelle Frabotta, MSEd, CSE Upon completion of the session, participants will: understand the interactions among race, culture and sexual 8:30–9:30am orientation; understand resistance to psychotherapy and its potential to promote personal growth and social change; It Gets Even Better: Bringing an Inspired YouTube increase participants’ awareness of their attitudes and Campaign into the Classroom 1CE Texas 1-3 values around sexual orientation and ethnic diversity. Presenter: Bill Taverner, MA, CSE Moderator: Khusdeep Malhotra, DDS, MPH Normative Childhood Sexual Play and Games 1CE Texas 5 Upon completion of the session, participants will: Presenter: Sharon Lamb, EdD identify one strategy participants can employ when using Moderator: DeAndrea Blaylock, MSW the It Gets Better project in the classroom. Upon completion of the session, participants will: differentiate normative play from play that signals abuse. Evidence Based Sexual Health Programs in Higher Education 1CE Texas 6 Presenter: Joleen M. Nevers, MAEd, CHES, CSE 9:30–9:45am Moderator: Cay Crow, MA, LPC Coffee Break Upon completion of the session, participants will: describe the current research published on evidence- based sexual health programming; identify gaps in 9:45–11:45am the sexual health literature surrounding standards of practice for higher education. Making Connections: The Intersection between Healthy Sexuality & Prevention 2CE Hill Country Lesbian Sexual Behavior Patterns as Reported in Online A&B Survey and Telephone Interviews 1CE Hill Country D Presenter: Alison Bellavance, MEd Presenter: Glenda Corwin, PhD Moderator: lore m. dickey, PhD Moderator: Betsy Cairo, PhD, HCLD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Upon completion of the session, participants will: identify two connections between healthy sexuality challenge myths about lesbian sexuality by comparing and sexual violence prevention; identify two strategies responses from sexually active vs. inactive long-term for incorporating healthy sexuality into sexual violence lesbian partners. prevention education and/or materials.

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Increasing Father Involvement in the Personal and Sexual 9:45–11:45am (continued) Development of Their Adolescent Daughters 2CE Texas 5 “You Mean We Can’t Say ‘Sex’?:” Strategic Framing Presenter: Stephen Duclos, MS of Comprehensive Sex Ed for Use in Abstinence-Only Moderator: TBD Environments 2CE Texas 6 Upon completion of the session, participants will: Presenters: Roxy Trudeau, MSW and Kimberly Lux, employ therapeutic strategies for increasing father AM, LSW involvement in the personal and sexual development Moderator: TBD of daughters; increase the role of fathers in resolving Upon completion of the session, participants will: adolescent conflicts about sexuality, body image, and strategically frame comprehensive sex education as different kinds of human relationships. relationship education; leverage the relationship education frame, in order to increase access to vital information in the communities they serve. Awards Luncheon and Patricia Finding Your Link in the Sexological Chain 2CE Hill Country D Schiller AASECT Founder Plenary Presenter: Melanie Davis, PhD Texas 1-3 Moderator: Betsy Cairo, PhD, HCLD 12:00–1:00pm 1:00–2:00pm 1CE Upon completion of the session, participants will: Schiller Prize What’s New in link participants’ work/interests to a minimum of one Increasing Father Involvement Transgender foundational sexologist; give practical examples of five in the Personal and Sexual Development of Their Adolescent Health? mentoring techniques, so participants can serve the Daughters Recommendations field as mentors, protégés or both. Stephen Duclos, MS for research from the Student Paper Award Institute of Sexual Pharmacology 2CE Texas 7 Becky Anthony, LCSW, MSW, MEd and revised Standards Meet Them Where They Are: Can of Care from the World Presenters: Lawrence Siegel, MA; Ricky Siegel, MS, CSE Sexuality Education Go Down on Social Networking Sites? Professional Association Moderator: Richelle Frabotta, MSEd, CSE for Transgender Health Audiovisual Award Upon completion of the session, participants will: Chris Arnold, MA, Director & Editor understand the neurohormonal and physiological Mark Schoen, PhD, Producer Walter Bockting, PhD, mechanisms that modulate sexual response, as the TRANS Professor, Program in basis for understanding the various chemotherapeutic Book Award Joan Price, MA University of Minnesota interventions in the treatment of sexual dysfunctions Naked at Our Age: Talking Out and disorders; enhance awareness of the complex issues Loud about Senior Sex Moderator: Ginger Bush, LCSW, LMFT, DST surrounding sexual response and how to develop a Distinguished Service Award Betty Mooney, DArts comprehensive approach to treating sexual disorders. Upon Humanitarian Award Sarah Weddington, JD completion Sex Therapy Supervision: Creative Synergies that of the session, Professional Standard of Help Clients 2CE Big Bend Ballroom Excellence Award participants Presenter: Gretchen Fincke, LCSW Michael A. Perelman, PhD will: gain an under- Moderator: Betty Mooney, DArts Sexuality Educator Award standing of up-to- Peggy Brick, MEd Upon completion of the session, participants will: date evidence-based John Sughrue, Jr., MD clarify procedures regarding certification requirements guidelines for Scholarship Award transgender care and and contracts for AASECT supervisors and potential Hannah Janoowalla the related research gaps supervisors; increase the skills and quality of supervisors Bill T. Jones Scholarship Award and opportunities. and those who want to learn to supervise. Candace Babutzke

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2:00–2:30pm Sexual Expression with Musculoskeletal Dysfunction: Limitations and Solutions 2CE Hill Country D Break Presenters: Miriam Graham, DPT, MBA and Reshma Rathod, MSPT, MBA 2:30–4:30pm Moderator: Anita Hoffer, PhD, EdD Upon completion of the session, participants will: The Foundation of Sexual Energy 2CE Hill Country A&B recognize the importance of addressing their patient/client’s Presenters: Anita DeFrancesco, MA and Susan Kaye, PhD physical ability or limitation for sexual expression and name Moderator: Anne Karcher, PhD some common musculoskeletal or tissue dysfunctions Upon completion of the session, participants will: that detrimentally impact sexual expression; explain to choose when and how to use your life energy force their patient/clients potential physical reasons for sexual through commitment, understanding and trust; learn dysfunction and describe and relate patient/client findings techniques to enhance , understand sensual vital to other health care providers who may be able to assist with fluid while deepening intimate capacities. achieving patient/client goals.

Ethics Reporting: The Truth and the Flame of It 2CE Sexual Offenders and Sexuality 2CE Texas 7 Bend Ballroom Presenter: Kristen Lilla, MSW Presenters: Donald Dyson, PhD, CSE and Brent Moderator: TBD Satterly, LCSW, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Moderator: Rhonda Johnson, PhD understand how to treat and work with sex offenders Upon completion of the session, participants will: in private practice; distinguish the differences between synthesize major ethical codes in the practice of sex therapy sexual offending and sexuality, and to correlate and education; evaluate ethical issues in the context of overlapping themes. existing ethical codes and ethics board practices. Synergy in Couples and Sex Therapy: What Motor Neurons, Cancer and the Sexual Self: A New Measure, Updated Neuroplasticity, and the Psychology of Flourishing Can Tell Communication Concepts and Clinical Assessment and Us About Sex and Sexual Enhancement 2CE Texas 5 Treatment 2CE Texas 6 Presenter: Stella Resnick, PhD Presenters: Annie Laura Cotten, MEd, PhD, LMFT; Moderator: Patti Britton, PhD Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE; Sage Bolte, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Moderator: Ellen Barnard, MSSW describe the implicit communications that can support or Upon completion of the session, participants will: damage a couple’s emotional and sexual intimacy; integrate demonstrate strategies for increasing communication new body-based methods in their work as therapists. about sexuality in a medical setting, particularly related to cancer; interpret the meaning of my sexual self scale 4:30–4:45pm for utilization in their settings. Break

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Blogging about Sex to Attract Clients and Media session 2 1CE Texas 4 & Foyer 1CE Hill Country A&B Upon completion of the session, participants will: identify Presenter: Joan Price, MA at least three advances in the field of sexual health; critically Moderator: DeAndrea Blaylock, MSW discuss new research in the field of sexual health with at least Upon completion of the session, participants will: three poster authors. identify goals for blogging and the audience; construct Moderator: Christopher White, PhD, CSE blog descriptions and bios and to formulate three blog post topics. Distribution Programs on College Campuses: Navigating Campus Political Terrain to Ensure Program Survival Violence and Discrimination Against BDSM Practitioners Presenter: Kristen Altenau, MA 1CE Texas 6 Parental of Healthy Sexuality in Relation to Presenter: Susan Wright, MA Their Young Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities Moderator: Tiffany D. Jones, MA Presenter: Donna J. Bernert, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Standards of Care: An In-depth Review of Transgender Health assess the impact of discrimination against individual Presenter: lore m. dickey, PhD BDSM practitioners. Sexual Body Esteem and Sexual Functioning in Women: Does Self- Transgender Sexuality: The Non-Binary Gender Identity Compassion Promote Resilience to the Western Beauty Ideal? Sexual Intimacy Model 1CE Hill Country D Presenter: Cara Dunkley Presenter: Damon Constantinides, MSW, PhD ¿Quién Eres?: An Exploration of Queer Identity Among Latina Moderator: Betsy Cairo, PhD, HCLD Women Who Have Sex with Women (WSW) Upon completion of the session, participants will: Presenter: Jayleen Galarza, LCSW, MEd identify at least one way participants can apply the NBGI The Intersections of Sex Therapy and Transsexuality Sexual Intimacy Model to their own work. Presenter: Elizabeth Hawkins with Clients: You Can’t Deny It Mindfulness Sexuality: From the ABCs of Sex to MBC 1CE Big Bend Ballroom (Mindfulness, Body, and Couple) of Sexual Satisfaction Presenter: Jason Thorne, MS, LPC Presenter: Shelley L. Imholte, MSW, MEd Moderator: P. Michele Sugg, MSW, LCSW, CST Upon completion of the session, participants will: 7:15–7:45pm identify two risk factors and two risk assessment questions AASECT Annual Business Meeting Foothills 1 to assess for potential sexual boundary violations. This meeting will include remarks by the president about Biopsychosial Management of Premature the results of the recently completed membership survey as 1CE Texas 5 well as a detailed financial report. All members of AASECT are invited to attend to hear an update on AASECT activities. Presenter: Irwin Goldstein, MD Moderator: Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST Upon completion of the session, participants will: describe the impact of various treatments on the Movie Night excitatory and inhibitory balance of sexual regulation. 8:00–10:00pm 2CE Texas 1-3 Moderator: lore m. dickey, PhD Screening of TRANS followed by Q & A with Mark Schoen, PhD and Chris Arnold, MA www.transthemovie.com.

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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Pelvic Floor 7:30–8:30am 2CE Texas 7 Continental Breakfast Texas 4 Presenter: Talli Yehuda Rosenbaum, PT, MSc Moderator: Cay Crow, MA, LPC Upon completion of the session, participants will: 8:00–11:00am review the basic anatomy and function of the pelvic floor; Registration and Information describe the role of the pelvic floor in sexual function.

Synergy and Continuity in African American Sexuality: 8:30–10:30am A Multicultural Counseling Perspective 2CE Hill Country A&B Holistic Sex Education: Integrating Body, Mind, Heart Presenter: Twinet Parmer, PhD and Soul 2CE Texas 1-3 Moderator: Trina Scott, MPA Presenter: Rosalyn Dischiavo, EdD, MA Upon completion of the session, participants will: gain an Moderator: Anita Hoffer, PhD, EdD understanding of the Multicultural Counseling Perspective Upon completion of the session, participants will: as it relates to addressing the sexuality of African Americans define the concept of Holistic Sex Education; identify at and other culturally diverse populations; develop strategies least two methods of Holistic Sex Education. and techniques for addressing the cultural identity of the counselor and the client within the context of sexuality. Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician 2CE Texas 6 Integrating Psychosexual Skill Exercises in the Treatment Presenter: , MSW, PhD of Sexual Desire Disorders 2CE Texas 5 Moderator: Richelle Frabotta, MSEd, CSE Presenter: Barry McCarthy, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Moderator: Patti Britton, PhD describe specific interventions and assessment tools Upon completion of the session, participants will: use a for each stage of coming out, sexual development, and range of psychosexual skill exercises to enhance individual relationships; discuss the data and facts in working with and couple sexual desire; implement a change program to gays and lesbians to minimize therapists bias, feelings enhance sexual freedom, choice and anticipation rather and opinions being transferred to the client. than reliance on traditional sensate focus exercises.

Sexual Recovery Following Breast Cancer, A Report of Outcomes of a Multidisciplinary Approach 10:30–10:45am 2CE Hill Country D Break Presenter: Carole J. Moretz, PsyD, MSN Moderator: Maria Hanzlik, PsyD 10:45–11:45am Upon completion of the session, participants will: apply the Quantum Model in describing the typical Men, , the Heart and Health: Confusion or sexual changes experienced by breast cancer survivors Clairvoyance? 1CE Texas 1-3 and experience and practice two top-down and two Presenter: Anne Katz, RN, PhD bottom-up integrative techniques designed to enhance Moderator: Ginger Helen Bush, LCSW, LMFT, DST sexual recovery in breast cancer survivors; describe Upon completion of the session, participants will: two advantages and two challenges associated with recognize the factors causing ED in otherwise healthy men implementing a cross disciplinary model for facilitating that could indicate silent cardiac disease; discuss the tests sexual recovery for breast cancer survivors. that these men need to rule out cardiac disease; identify the latest evidence supporting the treatment of ED in men.

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10:45–11:45am (continued) The Chaos of Lust: Synergizing Concepts in Sex Therapy for the Clinician 1CE Texas 5 Using Audience Response Devices to Push the Limits and Presenters: Deborah Berry, PhD and Hal Drellich, LMT Personalize Sexuality Education 1CE Texas 6 Moderator: TBD Presenter: Laurie M. Wagner, MEd, PhD Upon completion of the session, participants will: Moderator: Betsy Cairo, PhD, HCLD identify some of the biological, psychological and social Upon completion of the session, participants will: influences on the phenomenon of sexuality; apply explain how audience response devices can enhance these influences to a conceptual model to guide clinical sexuality education and research. assessment and intervention.

The Vulva DIALOGUES: A Vulva-to-Vulva Sociodrama through the Lifespan 1CE Hill Country D 11:45am–12:00pm Presenters: Kimberly Chestnut, MS, MEd, PhD and Break Constance M. Bowes, PhD Moderator: Khusdeep Malhotra, DDS, MPH Upon completion of the session, participants will: identify generational, biological and cultural issues around sexuality facing women across the lifespan; Closing Plenary use The Wellness Wheel model as a way to initiate conversations on sexuality and wellness with students Session and clients; learn The Four Essentials of Integration model as a way to understand and assess practitioner 12:00–1:15pm 1CE Texas 1-3 skills in the integration of sexuality and spirituality; Sexuality & Religion: What’s Race recognize how workshop participants’ own emotional Got to Do with It? and cultural experiences can promote compassion and Bishop Yvette Flunder collaboration when working with students and clients. Moderator: Debra Haffner, MPH, MDiv, CSE

Technological Revolution in Sexuality Education 1CE This presentation discusses the broad- Texas 6 spectrum diversity of human sexuality Presenter: Princess Kali and contexualizes that discourse Moderator: Betty Mooney, DArts in the real-life theological praxis of Upon completion of the session, participants will: contemporary religion and society. Particular learn to employ a variety of technological tools for their attention will be given to the religious, social and professional branding. health impact of non-healthy sexual discourse within communities of color. Treating Sexual Problems in Adults with ADHD, Embrace Internalized Freedom! Free people, Learning Disabilities, and Asperger’s Syndrome 1CE Hill Country A&B free people Bishop Yvette Flunder www.facebook.com/yflunder. Presenter: Stephanie Buehler, MPW, PsyD, CST Moderator: Sorah Stein, MA, BCBA, CSE Upon completion of the session, participants will: describe and treat five typical challenges faced by adults with three disorders first diagnosed in childhood: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disabilities and Asperger’s Syndrome.

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Come sizzle in the Miami sun and explore a spectrum of identities and cultures on the journey to sexual well-being. Join us in beautiful Miami, a city full of sensuality, culture, and diversity in one of the only places you can explore this thematic and disciplinary nexus. We are seeking 1 hour and 2 hour workshop abstracts and facilitated poster session abstracts in education, counseling, therapy, and research highlighting and mediating the differences in the rich complexities of the human sexual experience. Of See you particular interest for this conference, is looking for ways to see our work as in Miami! interdisciplinary and as a catalyst for seeing across identity lines. To do so, we are encouraging dialogue from varied perspectives.

45th Annual Conference Embracing the Sensuality of Diversity in Identities & Cultures

We especially encourage abstracts on the following: Intersecting aspects of sexuality, including: • Race, ethnicity & culture • Disability • Race, faith, & culture • Media analysis June • Spirituality • Politics & deeply held beliefs

Also, examinations of: • Exploration of sexual value systems • Sexuality at different stages • Strategies for cultivating health throughout the lifespan (in-utero, 6–10 body image, self-esteem, & sexual infancy, childhood, adolescence, self-esteem young adulthood, middle adulthood, • Holistic approaches to sexuality/ late adulthood, end of life) sexual health • Social & cultural understandings of • Examinations of merging social sexual health and medicine 2013 justice movements and sexual • Understandings of the multiplicities Hilton Miami Downtown health of gender expression & sexual • Approaches for experiencing orientation Miami, Florida “optimal” sexual health • The impact of social & political • Cultural competency training norms on sexual health successes and modalities Conference Co-Chairs: Carey Roth Bayer, EdD, RN, CSE ([email protected]) Watch www.aasect.org and email in late June for Bethany Stevens, JD, MA ([email protected]) updates on the submission process and deadlines!