Faculty Presentations
The faculty of the Program in Human Sexuality invite you to explore the latest in sexual health research. PHS faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and research collaborators will present their work at our monthly faculty research presentations. Join us: 12 PM-1 PM at PHS, 1300 South 2nd Street, Room 142, Minneapolis, MN 55454. Reserve your seat today — email phsresearch@umn.edu December 9, 2009 Dianne Berg, PhD “Child and Adolescent Services at PHS” The PHS clinic, the Center for Sexual Health, has recently developed a program for children and adolescents with a range of sexual issues including sexual behavior problems, gender issues, and, in conjunction with the Disorders of Sexual Development Clinic at the KDWB University Pediatrics Family Center, disorders of sexual development. While a few clinicians have traditionally worked with young clients, now the clinic has more fully developed guidelines and treatment models and thus has the capacity to see many more youth within a comprehensive framework. The expansion not only increases our clinical services but broadens our training for postdoctoral fellows. As the developer and coordinator of the new program, Dr. Dianne Berg will be discussing some of the theoretical and research-related underpinnings of the current assessment and treatment protocols as well as the protocols themselves. | |  | January 13, 2010 Scott Jacoby, PhD “Impact of Relationship Characteristics on the Sexual and Mental Health of HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men” This study examined sexual risk behavior and mental health in 605 HIV-positive MSM to see if men in primary partnerships had lower levels of sexual risk behavior and less depression and anxiety, compared to single men. Results indicate that monogamy status and partner type were associated with differences in sexual risk behavior. When non-monogamous men engaged in sex with their primary partners, their sexual risk behavior was lower, similar to monogamous men. In contrast, when these same non-monogamous men engaged in sex with their secondary partners, their sexual risk behavior was significantly higher, similar to sexually active single men. No association was found related to mental health. Non-monogamous men engaged in more sexual risk behavior than monogamous men due to higher rates of unsafe sex with secondary partners. Lower sexual risk behavior was only apparent when sexual behavior occurred between primary partners. This protective health benefit was not apparent when sexual behavior occurred with secondary partners. | |  | February 10, 2010 Jamie Feldman, MD, PhD "Sex and Gender (Don't) Matter: Understanding Sex Between Nontransgender men and Trans Women and Trans Men" | |  | March 10, 2010 Michael Miner, PhD “What’s Non-Deviant Sex? An Overview of Sexual Development and Adult Sexual Behavior” | |  |
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