THURSDAY, MARCH, 12
001. Continental Breakfast for Pre-Conference Training Session Attendees
7:00 to 8:00 am
Marriott Hotel: East Foyer
002. Registration for Pre-Conference Training Workshops - Session I
7:00 to 8:00 am
Marriott Hotel: Registration Desk
Chair:
Kathryn K. Quina, University of Rhode Island
003. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Feminism's Final Frontier: The Body Myth Across the Lifespan.
8:00 to 12:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Courageous
Eating disorders and body image despair are a major public health problem affecting adult women, despite prevailing beliefs that these conditions only affect the young. In previous generations, satisfaction with bodies increased with age, but today 65% of midlife women express significant body distress and weight preoccupation. Experiencing unprecedented stress due to their rapidly changing role in a global consumer culture, relentless attention to their bodies and appearance, unattainable media influences, and the fear of obesity, women of all ages mistakenly accept The Body Myth that controlling their weight, shape, and eating will solve their deeper issues. This program explores the unique clinical needs of adult women suffering eating and body image disorders, as well as implications for professional training, outreach, prevention, and public policy.
Facilitator:
Margo Maine, Maine & Weinstein Specialty Group
004. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Mindfulness-Based Meditation and Clinical Practice: An Immersion Experience for Clinicians.
8:00 to 12:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Freedom
This workshop offers clinicians the opportunity to experience the innovative and clinically proven group treatment approach developed by Segal, Williams, and Teasdale (2002) in which elements of cognitive therapy are integrated with mindfulness-based practices to prevent depression relapse in patients. Workshop participants will actively engage in guided meditations in a community of peers, reflect upon the impact of mindfulness-based meditations on one's own daily life and be introduced to a new set of technical skills. As the workshop ends there will be ample time to discuss both strategies for maintaining and amplifying the newly acquired skills in your on-going day-to-day life, and methods for implementing mindfulness-based cognitive therapy techniques in your clinical practice.
Presenter:
Beverly Serabian, Private Practice
005. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Feminist Qualitative Research: An Introductory Training.
8:00 to 5:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Weatherly
Feminist qualitative research is a powerful tool for social justice, investigating issues concerning oppressed and marginalized groups, creating a space for voices of previously silenced individuals and groups, empowering research participants, and producing knowledge that contributes to social change. This introductory training in feminist qualitative methods is designed to teach basic principles and skills in qualitative research design, data gathering, data analysis, and writing from a feminist perspective, with a particular focus on research that empowers research participants and contributes to social change. Standards of "trustworthiness" (quality or rigor) will be examined. The workshop will also address the tensions in psychology regarding feminist and qualitative research perspectives as well as strategies for publishing feminist qualitative research. The training is designed for both students and experienced quantitative researchers who are interested in being able to conduct qualitative research.
Presenter:
Sue Morrow, University of Utah
006. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Understanding Multivariate Statistics.
8:00 to 12:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Columbia
Multivariate analyses can greatly enhance the information gained from your research project. This workshop will provide helpful guidance for designing studies to take advantage of multivariate analyses, review the basic multivariate statistics, and provide practical information for conducting the analyses and interpreting the results. Time will be available for discussion of and general advice regarding participants' projects.
Presenter:
Kate Webster, URI and Business Community
007. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Women of Color Institute (Open to all): An Interactive Workshop on Hindrances and Strategies for Improving Recruitment and Retention for a More Diverse Faculty.
8:00 to 12:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Enterprise
This interactive workshop will explore hindrances and strategies for improving recruitment and retention for a more diverse workforce. The history of the Women of Color Caucus in AWP will be reviewed, barriers that hinder recruitment and retention of diverse faculty and staff within academia, medical and mental health practices, and professional organizations such as AWP will be identified, methods for making work environments more inclusive for minority women will be reviewed, and strategies for working as supporters and allies of minority professionals in your organization will be developed.
Presenters:
Michelle Dunlap, Connecticut College
Nina Nabors, Walden University
Angela R. Gillem, Arcadia University
008. Registration for Pre-Conference Training Workshops - Session II
12:00 to 1:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Registration Desk
Chair:
Kathryn K. Quina, University of Rhode Island
009. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Publishing Research Studies: Methods to Facilitate Manuscript Production.
1:00 to 5:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Courageous
Researchers often struggle to produce manuscripts from their studies. For funded research, once the required reports are completed, many researchers find that there are limited funds, energy, or ideas to continue publications from their data. This interactive workshop is designed to provide professional development in the area of research project organization and manuscript production. Attendees will identify strategies for (1) planning multiple manuscripts from a single research project and (2) facilitate manuscript production during all aspects of a research project. The presenter will include examples from mental health, women's health, and health services research, and will provide targeted feedback to assist participants in strengthening their publication plans for their research. Appropriate for researchers at all career stages who wish to improve efficiency and productivity in publishing their research. Attendees are invited to bring an abstract of their research project for discussion.
Presenter:
Jennifer P. Wisdom, Columbia University
010. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Our History Is In Our Memories: Empowering Lesbians through Memoir Writing.
1:00 to 5:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom-Salon III
This experiential, hands-on workshop is appropriate for lesbians and others (including men) interested in promoting memoir as either a therapeutic tool or as an end in itself. Principles of group psychotherapy will inform the creation of a safe and supportive atmosphere. Principles of therapeutic writing will be offered: the potential to heal past psychological wounds and to explore relationships. Participants will experiment with writing brief memoir pieces from their on histories, giving and receiving feedback, and will practice approaches for encouraging others to write their memoirs.
Facilitator:
Judith Scarfpin, None
011. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Challenging Cosmetic Genital Surgery: Feminist Activism 2008 Style.
1:00 to 5:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Columbia
We describe a grassroots effort organized by a coalition of feminist practitioners, scholars, and activists in New York City, in coordination with several college campuses, designed to bring attention to an emerging industry of cosmetic genital surgeries. Drawing on the strategies and lessons learned from our recent protest and media campaign, the goal of this workshop is to provide a framework for feminist organizing within a contemporary sociopolitical context. Increasingly, the beauty and sexual medicine industries have adopted and co-opted core feminist concepts of empowerment, self-determination, and choice for their own profit motives. We address dilemmas for feminist organizing arising from this co-optation, and present strategies for overcoming these challenges developed within our campaign. After presenting an overview of our own organizing efforts, participants will be given an opportunity to "workshop" their own feminist activist ideas or planned activities with support from our organizing team.
Presenters:
Leonore Tiefer, NYU Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
Lisa R. Rubin, New School for Social Research
Rachel Liebert, The Graduate Centre, CUNY
Nicola Gavey, The University of Auckland, City Campus
Rebecca Chalker, Pace University
Virginia Braun, University of Auckland
Michelle Leve, New School for Social Research
012. PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING WORKSHOP. Women of Color Institute (Open to WOC Caucus Members only): Academic Publication Strategies for Women Faculty and Students of Color.
1:00 to 4:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Enterprise
This workshop will explore approaches and resources for developing and furthering a research program, develop ideas for networking, collaborating, presenting, and writing with students and colleagues, and share strategies for writing, submitting, revising, and publishing articles and manuscripts.
Presenter:
Michelle Dunlap, Connecticut College
013. Women of Color Caucus Business Meeting
4:00 to 5:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Enterprise
Chair:
Radhika Sehgal, University of Idaho
014. Registration for AWP Conference I
5:00 to 7:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Registration Desk
Chair:
Kathryn K. Quina, University of Rhode Island
015. Volunteer Orientation & Training I
5:30 to 6:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Columbia
All volunteers stating today must attend this session.
Chair:
Barbara Silver, University of Rhode Island
016. WELCOMING RECEPTION for AWP Conference Attendees
6:00 to 7:15 pm
Marriott Hotel: Atrium
017. AWP Implementation Collective Meeting. AWP members are invited to attend.
7:00 to 10:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Boardroom
Chair:
Donna Hawxhurst, University of Utah
FRIDAY, MARCH, 13
018. Continental Breakfast I
7:30 to 8:30 am
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom-Salon 1V
019. Registration for AWP Conference II
7:30 to 6:00 pm
Marriott Hotel: Registration Desk
Chair:
Kathryn K. Quina, University of Rhode Island
020. Volunteer Orientation & Training II
8:00 to 8:30 am
Marriott Hotel: Columbia
All volunteers stating today must attend this session.
Chair:
Barbara Silver, University of Rhode Island
021. OPENING CEREMONY. Interactive Drumming Experience with Annie Geissinger
8:30 to 9:00 am
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom - All Salons
Don't miss the exciting interactive drumming performance with Annie Geissinger and her group of all-women drummers. They will being some instruments so that the audience members can participate. Please join in!
022. WELCOME by Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts
9:00 to 9:05 am
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom - All Salons
Introduction:
Mary A. Zahm, Bristol Community College
023. PRESENTATION of the Christine Ladd Franklin Award
9:05 to 9:15 am
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom - All Salons
Presenter:
Donna Hawxhurst, University of Utah
024. KEYNOTE ADDRESS. At 40, Let's Celebrate, Commiserate, and Commit. Gwendolyn Keita, Executive Director for Public Interest at the American Psychological Association.
9:15 to 10:30 am
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom - All Salons
Nineteen-sixty-nine was a year of protest and unrest in the United States and other parts of the world. In that environment, women of APA formed AWP and began to demand change -- removal of restrictions on employment and education, child care at conventions, elimination of sex role stereotypes and sexists attitudes that keep women down, inclusion of women on boards and committees. Forty years later, where are we with those demands and the demands for equity of women in all their diversity in the larger society--pay equity, reproductive rights, quality and affordable child care? This presentation will look at those demands, celebrate accomplishment and draw attention to those areas where our goals have not been accomplished. As we begin this new decade, what lessons can we learn and where do we go from here? How can we take advantage of the excitement of this new administration and re-energize ourselves for the years ahead?
Presenter:
Gwendolyn Keita, American Psychological Association
Introduction:
Bernice Lott, University of Rhode Island
025. Exhibits I
10:00 to 7:30 pm
Marriott Hotel: Weatherly
Chair:
Cynthia Roberts, University of Rhode Island
026. Symposium. Multicultural Perspectives of Feminist Approaches to Empowering Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Columbia
It is imperative that feminist efforts on behalf of battered women continue to become more culturally sensitive. There is much work to be done to elaborate all of the many different cultural aspects of women's lives that influence their abilities to contend successfully with IPV. This panel details the cultural values and realities influencing African American battered women, Deaf battered women, and South Asian battered women. Times of crisis are not the time to re-examine one's cultural values and beliefs to see if they are working - rather, those in crisis tend to rely heavily on cultural beliefs that have helped them in the past. Battered women rightly attend to safety first and consider the influence of cultural norms secondary. Services for battered women need to be delivered in culturally congruent and contextually relevant ways.
Chair:
Barbara Gormley, Georgia State University
Participants:
Multicultural Feminist Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence: Considering Safety and Self-Determination among African American Women. Monica Michelle Manuel, Georgia State University
Research exploring culturally sensitive interventions with battered African American women who choose to remain in their relationship is limited. This paper presents a culturally appropriate intervention model that espouses both the safety and self-determination of African American women committed to staying in their relationships.
The Silencing of Deaf Battered Women: A Multicultural Feminist Approach to Intimate Partner Violence. Tomina Jean Schwenke, Georgia State University
This paper addresses deaf female victims of intimate partner violence. Integrating feminist guidelines and multicultural principles, the complex needs of deaf women are illuminated. Aspirations for consciousness raising, coalition building, and interventions that empower deaf survivors of domestic violence to develop voice and power from within are described.
Cultural Factors Contributing to Gender-based Violence against South Asian women. Fatima Wasim, Raksha, Inc.
South Asian women face many challenges and barriers different from women in other cultures that put them at heightened risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. This paper extends the power and control wheel to reflect culture-specific behaviors in each category.
027. Workshop. Training Us All to Become Active Participants in Social Justice Work on Campus
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Middletown Suite
This workshop will explore the definition of social justice and highlight activities that can be done to bring issues of social justice to campus, in both the classroom setting, as well specific offices on campus (health services, disability services, tutoring services, etc…). While there are many colleges that have offices and individuals dedicated to social justice and diversity on campus, this important work often remains the responsibility of a few committed individuals. Acknowledging that social justice is important in all facets across campus, this workshop seeks to explore the ways in which social justice work can be done across campus, beyond the few instances of programming allotted to specific offices on campus, or classes that focus on issues social justice.
Facilitators:
Jennifer L Weiner, Fisher College
Susanna M. Gallor, University of New Hampshire
028. Structured Discussion. "Our Stories": Supporting Women In Addiction Recovery.
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Courageous
We will view taped interviews of the voices and faces of women living with addiction recovery. Participants will be assigned to focus groups to address the following issue: drugs of use; life crisis; denial; sexuality; treatment roadblocks; roadblocks to recovery; and what has changed in 25 years?
Facilitator:
Dorothy Bianco, Rhode Island College Institute of Addiction Recovery
029. Structured Discussion. Statutory Rape: Youth, Love, Lust & the Law-What's the Feminist Position?
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Newport Suite
Statutory rape is non-forcible sexual intercourse with someone below the age of consent. Often the younger party (usually a girl) feels she is "in love." Feminists want to protect youth while respecting their sexual agency. This discussion is designed for ALL who are interested for clinical, personal, political, or scholarly reasons.
Presenter:
Lisa Aronson Fontes, Union Institute & University
030. INVITED ADDRESS by Winners of the 2009 Oliva Espin Award for Social Justice Concerns
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Enterprise
"Perceived conflicts between affirmation of religious diversity and affirmation of sexual diversity: That's 'perceived'," Using feminist analysis, we explore an ethical dilemma often avoided: what to do when clinicians perceive genuine conflict in values between respect for religious and sexual diversity? Claiming to affirm both sexual diversity and religious values sidesteps the core conflict when the religious values hold that it's wrong to be LGB. Reference: Fischer, A.R., & DeBord, K (2007). Perceived conflicts between affirmation of religious diversity and affirmation of sexual diversity: That's 'perceived', in K. J. Bieschke, R. M. Perez, & K. A DeBord (Eds.). Handbook of counseling and psychology with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients (2nd ed., pp. 317-339). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Presenters:
Ann R. Fischer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Kurt DeBord, Lincoln University
Chair:
Michele Boyer, Indiana State University
031. Researcher's Caucus
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Portsmouth Suite
The newly formed Researcher's Caucus will hold a business meeting.
Chairs:
Mindy Erchull, University of Mary Washington
Jennifer Gorman Rose, Connecticut College
032. INVITED ADDRESS for Distinguished Publication Award. Women as Leaders: Negotiating the Labyrinth.
10:45 to 11:45 am
Marriott Hotel: Ballroom-Salons I and II
Women have gained considerable access to leader roles and are increasingly praised for having excellent skills for leadership. Nevertheless, more people prefer male than female bosses, and women can still face challenges in attaining and becoming successful in leader roles. These phenomena reflect progress toward gender equality as well as the lack of attainment of this goal. Reference: Eagly, A., & Carli, L. (2007). Through the labyrinth: The truth about how women become leaders. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
Presenters:
Alice Eagly, Northwestern University
Linda Carli, Wellesley College
033. NEW MEMBER LUNCHEON
12:00 to 1:15 pm
Marriott Hotel: Atrium