What to expect when you’re expecting: What is the role of perinatal sex education?
By Audrey Chu This blog is a summary of our published article: Fitzpatrick, E. T., Rosen, N. O., & Dawson, S. J. (2023). What to expect when you’re expecting: Perinatal sexual education is linked with couples’ sexual well-being in pregnancy and the postpartum. Journal of Sex Research, 60(9), 1269-1282. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2193570 The period from pregnancy […]
Greta Jang
I am excited to join the CaSH lab as a Clinical Psychology student. I completed my BA in psychology at UBC where I first developed an interest in emotion regulation and interpersonal function in the context of suicide. As a grad student, I am interested in exploring dimensions of interpersonal emotion regulation as a mechanism […]
Alice Girouard, PhD
Alice had joined the CaSH Lab in September of 2024 as a postdoctoral fellow Bio and photo to come!
Quinn MacDonald
I began working with the CaSH lab as a volunteer in January of 2023, later that year I became an honours student. I then graduated with my Bachelor of Arts with honours in Psychology and minor in Film Studies in 2024. I continued working with the lab after winning a research award, and transitioned into […]
STORK Pilot Study
We were seeking couples who are up to 26 weeks pregnant to participate in the STORK pilot study (i.e., first trial): Supporting the Transition to Parenthood through Online Sex and Relationship Knowledge. What is STORK? The first online couple-based program designed to enhance knowledge about changes to sexuality during pregnancy and postpartum and skills to cope with these changes. STORK was […]
What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex?
By David Allsop This blog is a summary of our published article: Allsop, D. B., Huberman, J. S., Cohen, E., Bagnell, K. B., Péloquin, K., Cockwell, H., & Rosen, N. O. (2023). What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex? Comparing sexual well-being between couples with and without a recent loss. Archives of Sexual Behavior, […]
iSTORK Pilot Study
We were seeking couples who are up to 32 weeks pregnant to participate in the iSTORK pilot study (i.e., first trial): inclusively Supporting the Transition to Parenthood through Online Sex and Relationship Knowledge. What is STORK? The first online couple-based program designed to enhance knowledge about changes to sexuality during pregnancy and postpartum and skills to cope with these changes. STORK […]
Changes to sexual function and distress in the transition to parenthood
By Malia Artibello This blog is a summary of our published article: Tavares, I. M., Rosen, N. O., Heiman, J. R., & Nobre, P. J. (2023). Biopsychosocial predictors of couples’ trajectories of sexual function and sexual distress across the transition to parenthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(4), 1493–1511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02480-8 The transition to parenthood (pregnancy to […]
Coping with low sexual desire: Do beliefs about maintaining sexual relationships affect sexual well-being?
By Valérie Lagacé This blog is a summary of our published article: Raposo, S., Rosen, N. O., Corsini-Munt, S., Maxwell, J. E., & Muise, A. (2021). Navigating women’s low desire: Sexual growth and destiny beliefs and couples’ well-being. The Journal of Sex Research, 58(9), 1118-1129. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1884179 Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels For many couples, sexual […]
Project Journey 2SLGBTQIA* Extension
We sought couples who are members of the 2SLGBTQI* community and who have had their first appointment with a medically assisted reproduction clinic within the last 8 months. The study involved three online surveys each, 6 months apart (1 one year). Through this research, we aim to better understand how 2SLGBTQI* couples manage potential changes […]
