Teaching & Workshops
Amy regularly teaches the Psychology of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation at the undergraduate level (syllabus). She designed this course to examine how the discipline of Psychology understands sexual orientation and gender, from the field’s early beliefs in treating queerness and gender diversity as mental illnesses or criminal acts, to contemporary discourses on power and privilege. Each week students use an intersectional framework to look at LGBTQ+ people and their lived experiences, including dating, identity development, media (mis)representation, and ally development.
The course culminates in a final assignment geared toward social justice. Students use what they have learned to write a research-based letter to an elected official or a representative of a large company about a relevant LGBTQ+ issue. The ultimate hope for the letter (and the course) is to affect social change.
In the past students have not only been thanked for their efforts but have compelled political and social change because of the power of their arguments.
Amy has also taught Personality Psychology and Research Methods (here is an exercise she uses to teach about operational definitions, inter-rater reliability, and “creepy” behaviors).
Teaching about consensual non-monogamy:
Do you teach a course related to intimate relationships, sexuality, and/or counseling?
If so, please consider adding content related to consensually non-monogamous relationships onto your syllabus.
For an undergraduate course, look at this recent CBSN documentary on non-monogamy (Amy’s excerpt), and Conley & Moors (2014). For a graduate level course, consider any of these papers: Conley et al. (2017), Moors et al., (2017), or Schechinger et al., (2018).
Amy also regularly guest lectures about consensual non-monogamy and has delivered dozens of keynotes on the topic. If you’re interested in inviting Dr. Moors to your university or organization to talk about her research on consensual non-monogamy, please email her at moors@chapman.edu.
Workshops
Mental Health Practitioner Workshops
In collaboration with Heath Schechinger, Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, Amy has developed several continuing education workshops (60-90 minutes) related to consensual non-monogamy for mental health professionals:
Polyamory: Resilience in families and empirically-informed clinical practices.
How to make your mental healthcare practice/organization (more) inclusive of consensually non-monogamous relationships.
Empirically-informed clinical practice and consensually non-monogamous clients.
Academic Climate Workshop
Amy and her students in the ONWARD lab developed an interactive 90-minute workshop aimed at challenging microaggressions and fostering an inclusive campus: Speak Up: Challenging Microaggressions by Intervening as an Ally. This workshop introduces students to the concepts of subtle acts of exclusion and invalidations (microaggressions). Students uncover their own biases and practice five evidence-based strategies to intervene as an ally when confronted with acts of inequity. More than 300 faculty, staff, and students in higher education have attended this workshop.
