February 19, 2022 CARAS Webinar: Kink Identity
The February 19, 2022 CARAS webinar will be an update on an ongoing project by Dr. Richard Sprott, called the Kink Identity and Sexuality Study. The focus will be on the development of the Kink Identity Scale, which as come out of the grounded theory project, attempting to measure individual differences among kink-identified people - similar to a personality scale.
The CARAS webinar is free to current CARAS Subscribers, and is $20 for the public, and $30 for those wanting Continuing Education credit.
To register, please go to: Register Here for the February webinar
The learning objectives for the webinar include:
By the end, participants will be able to…
Describe the seven dimensions of kink identity measured by the Kink Identity Scale
Assess which research questions would benefit from using the proposed Kink Identity Scale
About the presenter:
Richard Sprott received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from UC Berkeley in 1994. His early work was on social and language development in early childhood. Throughout the 1980s, he conducted program evaluations for educational programs for migrant farmworker families and worked in other areas of migrant farmworker education. As a researcher he has examined in detail the relationship between professional identity development and the development of professional ethics in medical doctors, ministers and teachers, and professional identity development in emerging fields of work. He is President of the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity for 2021-2022 (APA Division 44). He is co-editor on a newly released book from APA Books entitled “Supporting Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Diversity in K-12 Schools”. He is also the co-author of “Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013). Along with Dr. Elisabeth Sheff, he is co-editor of a new book series Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships from Rowman & Littlefield. He is currently directing research projects focused on identity development and health/well-being in people who express alternative sexualities and non-traditional relationships, with a special emphasis on kink/BDSM sexuality, and polyamory or consensual non-monogamy.