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Grace Wang

I am a Clinical Psychology PhD student and I am so excited to be part of the Dal community and the CaSH lab! I lived in Vancouver, British Columbia and San Francisco, California before pursuing a psychology specialist degree at the University of Toronto. This is where I not only began to really love research, but […]

Depressed and distressed? Changes in new parents’ depressive symptoms and sexual concerns over time

By David B. Allsop; This blog is a summary of our published article: Dawson, S. J., Strickland, N. J., & Rosen, N. O. (2020). Longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and sexual concerns among first-time parent couples during the transition to parenthood. The Journal of Sex Research. DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1836114

Don’t hesitate, just regulate: Emotion regulation and women’s sexual well-being

By Justin Dube; This blog is a summary of our published article: Dubé, J. P., Dawson, S. J., & Rosen, N. O. (2020). Emotion Regulation and Sexual Well-being Among Women: Current Status and Future Directions. Current Sexual Health Reports, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-020-00261-9

What is technology-facilitated sexual violence?

By Vasileia Karasavva With the surge in online access, technology has seemingly completely infiltrated our lives and has fundamentally changed the ways we interact with each other. Part of this change is for the better: along with the internet, we got cat memes, streaming services, and knowledge at our fingertips. Digital communication may also have […]

Mapping a course: Predicting outcomes of two treatments for women who have pain during sex

By Katrina Bouchard; This post is a summary of a recently published article from the Couples and Sexual Health Lab with our close collaborators at Université de Montréal:

Rosen, N. O., Vaillancourt-Morel, M.-P., Corsini-Munt, S., Steben, M., Delisle, I., Baxter, M.-L., & Bergeron, S. (2021). Predictors and moderators of provoked vestibulodynia treatment outcome following a randomized trial comparing cognitive-behavioral couple therapy to overnight lidocaine. Behavior Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2021.05.002

Infographic – Mapping a course: Predicting outcomes of two treatments for women who have pain during sex

Click here for the full document! Enjoy an infographic summarizing our paper. Rosen, N.O., Vaillancourt-Morel, M.-P., Corsini-Munt, S., Steben, M., Delisle, I., Baxter, M.-L., & Bergeron, S. (2021). Predictors and moderators of provoked vestibulodynia treatment outcome following a randomized trial comparing cognitive-behavioral couple therapy to overnight lidocaine. Journal of Behavior Therapy.