http://sitframework.com Dedicated to the advancement of sexual identity therapy Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:32:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dr. Mark Yarhouse is offering an all-day workshop on addressing sexual identity in clinical practice. The workshop will be held on the Regent University campus in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It will be held Friday, October 1st, 2010, from 9am to 4pm. On-line registration is now available here. From the registration page: This ... http://sitframework.com/2010/07/fall-training-announced/ This past year I’ve dealt with an interesting challenge that faces Christians who produce scholarship in controversial areas. My area is sexual identity, and I’ve been researching and providing services in this area for many years now. There are not many models for how to do integration in this area, ... http://sitframework.com/2010/03/understanding-sexual-identity-therapy/ I just returned from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) International Conference in Atlanta. The theme of the conference was Critical Breakthroughs. I made a presentation titled "Navigating Sexual Identity Issues on Christian College Campuses." It was a talk based on the past several years of visiting CCCU-affiliated ... http://sitframework.com/2010/02/sit-at-the-cccu-conference/ Next week I will be travelling to Asbury College and Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky,  for a series of talks. At Asbury I'll be giving chapel addresses, meeting with Student Development staff, and participating in various panel discussions and coffee shop discussions. The time as Asbury Theological Seminary will focus ... http://sitframework.com/2010/02/sit-and-pastoral-care-ii/ This past year I have had the opportunity to speak to several seminary students, and I have another similar talk coming up. For the most recent talk, I had been asked to provide two lectures. One was on the etiology of sexual orientation; the other lecture was on whether orientation can change. At ... http://sitframework.com/2010/01/applications-of-sit-to-pastoral-care/ On Friday, November 6th, I'll be heading up to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, for the Christian Association for Psychological Studies East Region Conference. The conference theme is actually on marriage and family, but I will be giving a presentation with two team members from the Institute for the Study of Sexual Identity ... http://sitframework.com/2009/11/sit-and-the-multicultural-movement/ The student chapter of  Chi Sigma Iota in the School of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University has asked me to give a presentation, and I am going to speak on Sexual Identity Therapy (SIT). The presentation is Friday, October 30th, from noon to 1pm on the Regent University campus (CRB 227) for ... http://sitframework.com/2009/10/an-introduction-to-sit-in-virginia-beach/ The presentation at AACC on working with mixed sexual orientation couples went well. Many in the audience had a stake in the topic.  We stayed for an hour to talk to people in such marriages - sexual minorities and their spouses - as well as parents and various clinicians. I ... http://sitframework.com/2009/09/update-on-presentation-on-mixed-orientation-couples/ I (Mark) will be presenting the SIT Framework at the American Association of Christian Counselor's (AACC) World Conference in Nashville on Friday, September 18th. The title of the talk is "Working with Mixed Sexual Orientation Couples." Mixed orientation couples are couples in which one partner experiences same-sex attraction and the ... http://sitframework.com/2009/09/sit-framework-and-working-with-mixed-orientation-couples/ During the first week of August, the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation released a report outlining findings of a two year investigation. The sexual identity therapy framework was referenced prominently and favorably in the report. An upcoming post will provide more information on ... http://sitframework.com/2009/08/sexual-identity-therapy-framework-in-the-wall-street-journal/