This last issue of our 36th volume is a standard issue. In this issue we have articles that span a wide range of topics and populations, including, but not limited to: transgender relationships, aging, sex workers, menopause, desire, teaching sex therapy, and assessments. A few of the articles in this issue have received quite a bit of attention already via early view online on the journal’s website. One of these more popular reads is focused on female sexual desire and examining what helps and hinders in practice via the enhanced critical incident technique (Krasnow & Maglio, Citation2019). Another is focused on gender differences in response to imagined infidelity and one’s rival’s perceived attractiveness (Kato, Citation2019). I invite you to be sure to check these out, as well as the rest of the stellar scholarly works in this issue.
Also included in this last issue is our first Clinical Reviews Editorial. About three years ago, when I started as Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Sexual and Relationship Therapy (SRT), one of our goals was to provide a mechanism through which the journal could translate our articles from what are often more accessible in terms of languaging and formatting to researchers, but less so to practitioners. We decided one of the best ways to do this would be to have a Clinical Reviews Editor, who examines each article in each issue and applies what they offer to clinicians and their clients in an editorial format for each issue. We are fortunate that Dr. Christopher K. Belous has agreed to serve as our Clinical Reviews Editor and has provided us with our very first clinical reviews editorial in this, our last issue of 2021.
Dr. Belous, LMFT, CST, CSE, CFLE, CGAP, (he/him) is based in the midwestern area of the United States. Dr. Belous is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Indiana, Illinois, and Georgia, is an American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) Certified Sexuality Educator and Certified Sex Therapist, is an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor, is a National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) Certified Family Life Educator, and a California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) Certified Gay Affirmative Psychotherapist. Dr. Belous holds a master of arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy (Michigan State University, 2009) and a doctoral degree in Human Development and Family Studies and Couple and Family Therapy (Michigan State University, 2012). Currently, Dr. Belous is the Director of the Couple and Family Therapy Center and Associate Professor in the Couple and Family Therapy master’s program at Purdue University Northwest [to learn more about the work of Dr. Christopher K. Belous, please see his website at the following link: http://www.thebsi.org/].
Antioch University New England, Keene, NH, USA
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References
- Kato, T. (2019). Gender differences in response to infidelity types and rival attractiveness. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 1–17. online first. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2019.1639657
- Krasnow, S. S., & Maglio, A. (2019). Female sexual desire: What helps, what hinders, and what women want. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 1–29. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2019.1626011