LGBTQ Foundations 103

LGBTQ Foundations 103 with Gary Jacobson, LCSW and Amelia Pope, LMSW

Dates: Fridays April 4th, April 11th, April 18th, and April 25th, May 2nd, and May 9th
11am -12:30pm

Location: ICP Library 1841 Broadway New York, NY 10023

This course will explore clinical issues working with LGBTQ relationships, couples, and families. Through readings and discussion, we will explore clinical issues common to LGBTQ couples and the increasing number of LGBTQ people becoming parents. It is not necessary to have taken LGBTQ Foundations 101 or Foundations 102 to benefit from this module.

Readings will include:

  • Patterson and Riskind- To Be a Parent: Issues in Family Formation among Gay and Lesbian Adults
  • Pfeffer- Bodies in Transition: Lesbian Partners of Trans Men and Body Image
  • Sanders-  Men Together: Working with Gay Couples in Contemporary Times
  • Shelby- About Cruising and Being Cruised
  • Shernoff- Condomless Sex: Considarations for Psychotherapy with Individual Gay Men and Male Couple Having Unsafe  Sex
  • Shumsky- Transforming the Ties That Bind: Lesbians, Lovers, and Chosen Family

Module Fees

6-9 hour Training Modules

  • $50 for Graduate Students (with ID)
  • $100 for ICP and PCGS Community
  • $150 for Outside Clinical Community 

To register online visit the Module Registration Page. Please contact PCGS for questions about our upcoming Modules:

For more information visit the PCGS website

Meeting for NYSPA GLBTQ task force on May 18 from 11-1pm

NYSPA President, Dr. Dinelia Rosa, and Dr. Herb Gingold would like to invite all those interested in joining a NYSPA GLBTQ Task Force to meet on May 18 from 11-1pm at:

1060 Park Avenue, Apartment 4A (Entrance on 87th Street) in Manhattan 

The group is open to NYSPA's GLBTQ members and friends, to therapists treating these populations and to anyone who wants to learn more about issues facing LGBTQ people in New York State.

The purpose of this meeting is to:

1. Start the process of organization

2. Increase LGBTQ visibility within NYSPA

3. Contemplate relevant programs

4. Increase NYSPA membership in the LGBTQ therapist community

5. Network and Socialize.

 Please RSVP if you are able to make this meeting.  If you are interested in being a part of this effort, but can't make the meeting, please inform, as well.  (Herb Gingold 718 849 3362 orHGingold2@aol.com). 

Summary of the First Meeting (3/16/2014)

1.  Introductions - 10 participants attended the first meeting

2.  Discussion of the Purpose and Organization of the Group, including our place within NYSPA.

3.  Possible projects and programs:

    a.  Peer Case Consultation for therapists working with LGBTQ clients

    b.  Program on recent medical/ethical findings (regarding Post-Exposure Prophilaxis for HIV).

    c.  Liaising with other LGBTQ organizations around both NYC and NYS.

    d.  Supporting the needs of LGBTQ psychologists

    e.  Increasing NYSPA membership by making a home for LGBTQ psychologists

4.  Educating therapists to better serve LGBTQ clients avoid heterosexist remarks, stereotyping and behavior. 

5. Initiating a safe LGBTQ workplace project.

There were a number of other ideas for projects.  The next steps are to build membership, formalize organization and start programs and projects.

 

The Mother Wit Conference on April 5th, 2014 from 9:30am-5pm

One of the highest expectations for women from all cultural, spiritual and socioeconomic backgrounds is that they will “conceive” and “reproduce” life in the form of children. It is also presumed that every woman will conceive, choose to go through with her pregnancy, will carry the pregnancy to term and subsequently experience the magic and bliss of giving birth and being a mother. This misconception about conception, birth and motherhood has rendered women, who have not had these experiences or made these choices, silent, and, this silence has created a dark chasm where women, their stories and experiences have been hidden and their healing process has been blocked.

The Mother Wit Conference aims to offer people of all ages a safe and engaging environment to give voice to their experiences with infertility, miscarriages, abortions and post-partum depression so that the cycle of silence can be broken and the healing journey can begin.

Date: April 5, 2014

Time: 9:30am-5pm

Location: The National Black Theater of Harlem (2031 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10035)

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Trans*Literate Conference on March 29th and March 30th

Presented by PCSG (Formerly known as GLAP) division of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in partnership with Hunter College and The LGBT Social Science & Public Policy Center, the Trans*Literate symposium will educate, inform, and expand dialogue on the topic of working clinically with the transgender communities and understanding transgender experienced through psychoanalytic theory. Mental health clinicians are invited to submit proposals for workshops, papers, and presentations on the topic of how issues related to trans* experience has informed complicated, and illuminated their work in individual, group, and family clinical practice.

The 2014 Trans*Literate Symposium will focus on clinical work across the transgender spectrum. We will highlight work among/within/across sub-communities of race, ethnicity, class, age, gender & gendered identities, ability, and sexual orientation. We want to specifically increase the visibility of trans communities of color, trans youth & elders, and trans women.  Our previous symposium held February 25, 2012 at Baruch College in Manhattan drew 131 attendees from across the United States including 28 presenters leading 18 different presentations on clinical issues affecting various transgender communities.

Location-

Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College 

2180 3rd Avenue, New York, NY, 10035

Dates-

March 29th 9am-5pm

March 30th 9am-1:30pm

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April Conference on "Complicating Conversations: Girls' and Women's Empowerment in South Asia and South Asian Diaspora"

Saturday, April 12, 2014 (09:00 am - 6:00 pm)

Knox Hall 509, Columbia University

(This event is co-sponsored by South Asia Institute, Teachers College Vice President’s Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant Fund, TC Student Senate and TC Student Development and Activities.)

Empowerment or the will to strengthen the capacities of self or others is, according to Barbara Cruikshank, neither good nor bad, it is political. This conference endeavors to engage with this political enterprise to provide analysis of the current state of women's and girls' empowerment. 

International organizations, state governments, the private sector, academia and popular culture are invested in girls’ and women's empowerment. However, girls’ and women’s empowerment in South Asia is a much celebrated yet inadequately examined issue. This conference will reflect on the nature of empowerment programs and will critically examine the promise of empowerment as the solution to a wide array of social, economic and cultural problems. Critical dialogues will seek to engage with and complicate dominant conceptions of girls’ and women's empowerment in South Asia and its Diaspora and the ways in which they construct the lives of girls and women.

We welcome abstracts that address the following topics:

Ø  Theorizing empowerment: approaches and criticism

Ø  Empowerment and Schooling  

Ø  Empowerment as a strategy of development

Ø  Empowerment and feminism

Ø  Empowerment and affective connections

Abstracts that explore other issues related to the conference theme are also encouraged.

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by March 20, 2014. Email:disha@tc.columbia.edu 

Schedule

Register here

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