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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyMarch 15th, 2011
NARTH will be holding their 2011 convention the first weekend of November in sunny Phoenix, and they have just issued their call for workshop and plenary session presentations:
Some examples of past successful presentations were those that addressed current rsearch, successful clinical techniques, help for families, therapeutic assistance for women, information helpful to counseling students, issues related to helping adolescents, group therapy, addictions, medical issues related to homosexuality, current legal or policy issues that impact treament availability, programs directed toward helping men, etc.
All proposals for presentations should be received no later than June 10, 2011.
- Presenter information (professional affiliation, email, phone, fax, address):
- Presentation Title, Format, Abstract (300 words):
- Behavioral Learning Objectives for a professional audience:
- Presenter qualifications (200 word biosketch with includes degrees, license, and professional affiliations):
- Level of difficulty (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced):
The convention’s theme is — get this — “Beyond Political Correctness: Keeping Clients First.” Even though they say they really want to keep clients first, I doubt they would be interested in hearing from any of you former clients out there.
Ex-gay survivor or not, if you wanted to present a workshop or plenary session, what proposal would you submit? We are accepting your proposals in comments.
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March 15th, 2011
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Intermediate.
ebohlman
March 15th, 2011
I find it interesting that they’re calling it “keeping clients first” rather than “putting clients first”; the former sounds like it’s about retention and similar “practice-building” concerns.
Boo
March 15th, 2011
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March 15th, 2011
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Brian
March 16th, 2011
Perhaps with a follow up suggesting the dollar value of the reparations for which Exodus might reasonably be held accountable. (I’d expect a boatload of reimbursement for REAL professional therapy.)
Infovoyeur
March 16th, 2011
Present the gist, pith, essence of the landmark meta-analysis [love the jargon] by social psychologists entitled “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition” (ah, there’s that jargon again). It captures the toxic strand in conservative thought. The Key to Why they Believe as they Do.
No, wait: from there you could do a dandy presentation, “Natural Law Mind-set as a Religion,” which is what NARTH is. [“Religion” = that which gives “a frame of orientation and an object of devotion.]
Glad I thought of this. NARTH once made a fair statement that they include spirituality, but the earlier statement was “we remain a scientific objective…” blah blah yadda…..
CHESTER, flaneur and homophilic parasexual
Boo
March 16th, 2011
Paul Cameron- should we?
Actually it appears that doesn’t need to be in the presentation, as NARTH has already answered in the affirmative. Right now they have Cameron headlining their website with his bogus children of LGBTs more likely to be LGBT “study.”
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