Author: Mark Yarhouse
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Applications of SIT to Pastoral Care
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 the end of the second…
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SIT and the Multicultural Movement
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 (ISSI) on the topic of…
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An Introduction to SIT in Virginia Beach
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 those in the area. What…
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Update on Presentation on Mixed Orientation Couples
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 had thought of this as…
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SIT Framework and Working with 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 other does not. This presentation…