AASECT 2014 SUMMER INSTITUTE PARTICIPANT EVALUATION AND REACTION

Thank you for your participation in AASECT's 2014 Summer Institute!

This survey asks how the Summer Institute served your needs and documents the sessions you attended.

Please respond to survey questions as fully as possible. The information you share will help Summer Institute Faculty to learn from their experiences with you.

Please feel free to call me, Susan Stiritz, Summer Institute Director, at 314 422 0944 or email me at sstiritz@gmail.com if you wish to have a conversation about your experience.

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* 1. Name. If you are completing this survey to apply for CE Credits, please give your name. If you wish to respond anonymously, no need to provide your name.

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* 2. To what degree were your professional needs addressed by this Institute?

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* 3. Please describe how the Institute responded to your desires for personal growth and for the growth of your clients.

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* 4. The short introduction to the Institute Monday morning and information emailed to you prior to the Institute were aimed to help you know what to expect and to give you information you needed to participate. How adequate were these efforts in preparing you?

  Very well Fair Not at all
Before the Institute communication
Introduction to the Institute

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* 5. What did you learn from Ritch Savin-Williams' session "The Gay Kids Are All Right"?

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* 6. Please complete this sentence stem with your rating “As a result of Professor Savin-Williams' session, I feel I can…"

  Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree
Describe the difference between sexual and romantic orientation
Argue the case for why bisexuals are evaluated as more at risk than straights or gays/lesbians
Compare the motives of virgins and asexuals concerning the lack of sexual activities
Advocate for the inclusion of sexual development during childhood in our education
Describe what mostly straights are and the various “types” of mostly straights

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* 7. How much did you add to your previous knowledge of the following contexts concerning the sexualization of girls and women, which Danielle Egan presented in her session Monday?

  an amazing and transformative amount quite a lot some only a little nothing
A history or timeline of at least five points of ideas adults have produced about children and their sexuality that continue to shape popular perception today.
Critical issues that undermine popular ideas about children and their sexuality useful in deciphering fact from fiction about the sexualization of girls and women.
Ways psychosocial dynamics underpin our culture's ideas about children and their sexuality.
Ideas useful for working with parents, teachers and/or principles to foster a more reasoned dialogue for talking about young people and sexuality.

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* 8. What did you take away from Joyce McFadden's session on mother-daughter communication about sexuality?

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* 9. Please indicate how you agree or disagree with the following statements referring to Joyce McFadden's session on mother-daughter dialogue about sexuality.

  I agree strongly. I agree. I neither agree nor disagree. I disagree. I strongly disagree.
I understand ways young and adolescent girls experience disappointment when their mothers fail to discuss sexuality with them.
I now understand how self worth and how a lack of sexual self-knowledge impairs the development of self worth.
I will be able to create scripts/conversations I find comfortable to use in talking with girls about their sexual self-efficacy and in conveying how this capacity is a necessary component of living a happy life.

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* 10. What did you learn about the anatomy of arousal and how will you use what you learned in your practice?

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* 11. How did Sheri Winston and her session with Teen Advocates for Sexual Health expand your ideas about interaction with young people about sexuality? How could you use what you learned in your practice? How relevant did you find this session?

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* 12. What did you take away from DeShannon Bowens' presentation on the impact of traumatic history on the sexuality of members of oppressed populations?

  A tremendous amount Quite a lot Some new things Not very much Nothing
The sexual trauma history of oppressed cultural groups in North America
How the history of sexual trauma can impact sexual expression among individuals of oppressed cultural groups in North America
Views adolescents from historically oppressed cultural groups have based on their ethnicity, gender and spiritual/religious beliefs
How Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is used by sexual trauma therapists to help people heal from direct and indirect sexual wounding

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* 13. How relevant did you find Tim Bono's presentation on positive psychology to your work and personal perspectives? If it was relevant please explain how. If not, why not?

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* 14. What did you learn from Bill Taverner's session on adolescent development through early, middle, and late periods and how to address young people when discussing sexuality with them? How do you think you will use what you learned in your practice? Do you feel more competent to work with adolescent clients or parents of adolescents as a result of this session?

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* 15. What did you learn about girls' and young women's sexual empowerment from Zoe Peterson's session? What strategies might you use to foster or support young women's sexual empowerment? How might these ideas apply to young men?

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* 16. What constructive criticisms could you share about your experience at the Summer Institute?

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* 17. On a scale from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), how do you evaluate your satisfaction with the Summer Institute?

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* 18. Please rate the content of workshop presenters

  excellent very good good fair needs improvement
Ritch Savin-Williams
DeShannon Bowens
Joyce McFadden
Tim Bono
Sheri Winston - session 1
Sheri Winston with TASH participants
AASECT Fellows Screening and Discussion of film "Map of Sex"
Danielle Egan
Bill Taverner
Zoe Peterson

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* 19. Please rate the presentation style of presenters

  excellent very good good fair needs improvement
Ritch Savin-Williams
DeShannon Bowens
Joyce McFadden
Tim Bono
Sheri Winston
Danielle Egan
Bill Taverner
Zoe Peterson

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* 20. What sessions did you attend?

  Yes No
Ritch Savin-Williams - "The Gay Kids Are All Right"
Danielle Egan - "Exploring Adult Perceptions and Projections of Young People and Sexuality”
Joyce McFadden - “The Importance of Wading into Our Sexuality with Integrity”
Sheri Winston - "The Missing Piece of the Sex Ed Puzzle - Teaching Sexual Pleasure"
Sheri Winston - Session #2 Winston with TASH students
DeShannon Bowens - "Journey to Freedom: Transforming Historical Sexual Wounds"
Tim Bono - Adolescent Positivity
Bill Taverner - "What's a 4-Letter Word Meaning Intercourse? Talk"
Zoe Peterson - “Empowerment Strategies for Millennials”

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* 21. How satisfied were you with the Summer Institute facility, the Brown School at Washington University?

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* 22. How satisfied were you with your lodging?

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* 23. How satisfied were you with snacks and ordered meals?

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* 24. Which of the pre-Institute readings did you read and what did you get out of your reading?

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* 25. Final comments, requests, or questions?

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