**This course will provide the participant with 1 General Learning Type BACB® CEU**
Description of Learning Type CE Event: Got any clients identifying as "furries" or other "anthros", such as "therians" or "bronies"? How about expressing they are into Puppy Play or Pony Play? Wanna learn more about these culture/s and practices? Nicholas has put together a 1-hour brief overview of the unique subset of the overlapping kink and general communities, to help bring base understanding and clarity on these topics, from a behavior-analytic framework. A preface note: Furries are not necessarily into kink; if you think these are completely overlapped and worried about your teen client, please attend this talk!
About the Instructor: Nicholas Maio-Aether owns Empowered: A Center for Sexuality in St Louis, where he and his occasional teams of partnered Universities' students work to assist humans with and without disabilities achieve sexual access, sexual freedom, gender affirmation, and self-control of compulsive behaviors.
Nicholas works throughout the US training BCBAs/Behavior Analysts so persons in Individualized Supportive Living (ISL) programs gain access to applicable and generalizable comprehensive sex ed and sexual opportunities. Nicholas provides Sexual Behavior Analysis, and has assisted polycules, kinksters, gay couples, trans and nonbinary humans, among others, on their journeys. Trained by GLSEN in 2003, Nicholas started Gay-Straight Alliances across Alaska while in high school, and provided them sex ed materials and trainings. Nicholas spent five years managing Hustler Hollywood in St Louis before moving into Behavior Analysis, and joined AASECT, where he currently sits on two committees. He then completed a Sex Therapy practicum under Linda Weiner, LMSW, CSTS, in 2019 before getting a second Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy, and meeting those hour requirements under Angela Skurtu, LMFT, CST, along with his LGBTQIA+ Family Systems Specialist certificate in 2021.
Target Audience: Any behavior-analytic professional serving any population of tween to adult humans -- because all populations intersect with kink and cultural identities, which this talk is all about!
Learning Objectives for Participants: As a result of this course participants will be able to …
- Attendees will review current kink and queer research, determining for themselves the validity of claims that immersive kink lifestyles can contain within them repertoires of behavior aligned with mental/behavioral health.
- Attendees will compare anthropomorphic BDSM play dynamics against behavior-analytic methods & principles, and indicate the overlaps that do exist.
- Attendees will acknowledge common strategies employable for Puppies and Handlers expressing/indicating they are facing addictions and/or anxieties.
To earn credit, you will be required to watch all video portions and pass a quiz about it with a score of 80% or higher. You can retake the quiz as many times as needed, but you may not receive exactly the same questions each time.
Course Includes
- 5 Lessons
- 4 Quizzes
