!Diploma in Relationship Therapy! !starting in September 2014 a one year training in working with Relationship Issues TRANS* 2014 EMERGING TRENDS !aimed at qualified relationship therapists wanting to understand more about !Alternative Sexualities and LGBT identified therapists wanting to be skilled at !helping their own communities have better relationships. Friday April 4th" ! 9.30 ! Registrations! ! 10.00 !Welcome and introductions! !Course Directors: Leah Davidson and Damian Mc Cann full details on the Training 10.30 !Dr Meng-Chuan Lai - The Gender and Autism Spectra: Crossroads and Unresolved Mystery! !section of our website: www.pinktherapy.com 11.10!Coffee break for 30 minutes! ! 11.40!Dr Victoria Holt- Associated Difficulties presenting in families of Gender Variant young people ! ! 12.20 !Alex Drummond - Genderqueer: an auto-ethnographic report from the frontier of Trans*! ! 13.00 !Lunch! ! 14.00! Seminars" USB Key’s available with 5Gb data: reports, podcasts, video !Christina Richards - Trans* - Clinical Aspirations and Pragmatics" clips - all manner of interesting information on gender and !or! sexual diversity issues. !Lee Middlehurst - Online Questionnaires: Re-conceiving Transgenderism to Help All Trans ! Buy one at the conference or order via email ! Identities! 15.00 !Comfort break for 15 minutes! [email protected] 15.15! Seminars ! ! !Tina Livingstone - Impacting practice - trans' clients perception of what is helpful and unhelpful ! ! in therapy" ! !or ! ! !Nicola Horley - The narratives of those who identify as gender variant but who live without surgical ! ! interventions! ! 16.15!Closing speeches! ! ! ! Saturday April 5th! ! ! 9.30 ! Registrations! ! 10.00 !Welcome and introductions! ! 10.30!Dr Meg Barker on Non-Binary Genders! !The Marrying Kind?! 11.00 !10 minutes Q & A! !A “unique and ground-breaking” new book, ‘The 11.10 !Coffee break for 30 minutes! Marrying Kind? Lives of Gay & Bi Men Who Marry 11.40!Michelle Bridgman on The role of therapy before & during transition! ! 12.10 !10 minutes Q & A! !Women’ is the first in Europe to share such intimate life ! !stories of men coming out within marriage as well as 12.20 !Sam Feeney on Adolescent Emerging Trans Identities & the law! !providing an invaluable resource guide for others 12.50!10 minutes Q & A! ! !trying to do so. 13.00 !Lunch for an hour! ! Charles Neal, Pink Therapy’s Hon. Clinical Associate 14.00!GIRES - the creation of educational resources and information! !since its inception, founder & Chair of the former !Mermaids - peer support for families of gender variant young people! !Assoc for Lesbian, Gay & Bi Psychologies and co- !Clinic Q - setting up a sexual health clinic for trans* people ! !editor, with Dominic Davies, of the best-selling ‘Pink 15.00 !Comfort break for 15 minutes! !Therapy’ trilogy (1996 & 2000), has 25 years experience in therapy & training with sexuality and 15.15!Amanda Middleton, Serge Nicholson and Paris Lees in discussion with Dominic Davies ! diversity issues. Here he encourages ten men to open their hearts and reveal the detailed struggles and !discussing “Is Trans-Oriented an emerging sexual orientation?” ! ! 16.30 !Close! !rewards of coming to live more authentically as they “strive for wholeness”. ! ! ! JUST PUBLISHED! http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00IZFL3IK Kindle price £4.93 ! Friday Keynotes! And if 'transsexualism' has to some extent an established anthology of research to call on, what do we The Gender and Autism Spectra: Crossroads and Unresolved Mystery actually know of the experience of non-surgical transition, and specifically the new and emerging identities Both gender and autism are constructs used to describe a spectrum of social, behavioural, cognitive, and that sit beyond hegemonic gender binaries? probably biological characteristics that varies substantially in human being. The relationships between the ! This paper offers a unique insight into those uncharted waters: drawing on personally derived data Alex will two spectra have been proposed in certain theoretical formulation. Recent research in multiple domains set out to answer those questions from a subjective-reflexive position. (psychology, biology, social sciences) has started to provide relevant descriptive and empirical findings. ! This talk will summarise current knowledge regarding the relationships between the two spectra, and the Alex Drummond is both Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with research and clinical interests in many remaining questions that await clarification. transgender and ADHD. A senior accredited clinician with BACP and accredited as a specialist in sexual and gender diversity with Pink Therapy she continues to combine research, activism, and clinical work with Dr Meng-Chuan Lai, MD., PhD. Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge a passion for photography. www.talkmebetter.co.uk Meng-Chuan Lai is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and autism researcher. He is Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the ! National Taiwan University. His research focuses on disentangling the relationships between sex/gender Friday Seminars and autism at multiple levels. He also studies other neurodevelopmental conditions (ADHD, tic disorders), Trans* - Clinical aspirations and pragmatics Trans* is a wide and often contentious area which invites vigorous debate, both in the purely academic and adolescent mental health (anxiety, depression, early psychosis, and addiction), sexual identity and gender also the clinical literatures. It is also an area which is constantly evolving and consequently invites development, and resilience. www.autismresearchcentre.com continuing engagement from NHS clinicians who must necessarily critically engage with shifts in the evidence base and wider thought. In doing so a balance must be struck such that quality up-to-date care Associated Difficulties presenting in families of Gender Variant young people is provided, but also such that potentially damaging change is not instigated on an inadequate basis This paper presents the findings from an audit on demographic variables and associated difficulties in 218 simply because it is in line with the zeitgeist. This conference paper considers future directions of clinical children and adolescents, with features of gender dysphoria, referred to the Gender Identity Development practice within the NHS, especially pertaining to non-binary genders, and the pragmatic realities which Service (GIDS) in London during a one-year period. Data were extracted from patient files (i.e. referral should be met to ensure that safe, effective interventions are available which are free at the point of letters, clinical notes and clinician reports). The most commonly reported associated difficulties were delivery. bullying, low mood/depression and self harming. There was a gender difference on some of the associated ! difficulties with reports of self harm and abuse being more common in the natal females and Autism Christina Richards is Senior Specialist Psychology Associate at the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Spectrum Conditions being more common in the natal males. The findings also show that most of the Trust and West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Charing Cross) Gender Clinics. She works in this difficulties seems to increase with age. Findings regarding demographic variables, gender dysphoria, capacity as an individual and group psychotherapist and psychologist conducting psychotherapy, sexual orientation and family features are reported and limitations and implications of the audit are assessment and follow-up clinics as part of a multidisciplinary team. She is an accredited psychotherapist discussed. with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and is an Associate Fellow of the ! British Psychological Society (BPS). She lectures and publishes on trans, sexualities and critical mental Dr Victoria Holt is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist specialising in working with gender health, both within academia and to third sector and statutory bodies. She is the co-author of the dysphoric children, adolescents and their families. She works in a National Specialist Team at the Gender BPS Guidelines and Literature Review for Counselling Sexual and Gender Minority Clients; A clinical Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London and has a number of years of experience in guidebook on sexuality and gender published by Sage: Richards, C., & Barker. M. (2013). Sexuality and this area. She also does group work and works with partners of Trans people. gender for mental health professionals: A practical guide. London: Sage; and is the co-editor of ! the Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender, which is due to be published in 2015. She joined the team of Clinical Associates at Pink Therapy in June 2013 and is a Graduate of the Diploma http://christinarichardspsychologist.wordpress.com/ in Gender and Sexual Diversity Therapy ! ! "Online Questionnaires: Re-conceiving Transgenderism to Help All Trans Identities" Genderqueer: an auto-ethnographic report from the frontier of Trans* From 2nd Jan. 2007 to 12th Dec. 2010 six different types of online questionnaires were available that On the borderlands of gender, intentionally inhabiting a space she defines as 'explicitly trans*' - and gained information about the diverse trans identities. When they closed, they had gathered 390,227 inputs thereby not 'passing' but ‘being', the author reports back