Samuel Wan, PhD, is Director of Training for the Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Residency Training Program at the San Francisco VA Health Care System and Clinical Supervisor with the Substance Use and PTSD (SUPT) Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his doctoral internship with the VA Boston Healthcare System (formerly the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology) and postdoctoral fellowship in Substance Use Disorders at the SFVAHCS. He received his PhD in Counseling Psychology from Boston College, and BA in Psychology from the Univ. of California, Berkeley. As team member of the SUPT clinic, Dr. Wan performs a range of clinical, administrative, and educational activities focused on the assessment, management, and treatment of co-occurring substance use disorders and PTSD in the Veteran population. Dr. Wan’s clinical interests include substance use disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, multicultural psychology, and gender issues. Dr. Wan is Past-President and Treasurer of the Association of VA Psychologist Leaders (AVAPL). He was also Chair of the Conference Planning Committee for the 17^th and 18^th Annual VA Psychology Leadership Conferences (2014-2015) and remains a planning committee member.  He is the Chair-Elect for the VA Psychology Training Council and former member of the VAPTC’s Multicultural and Diversity Committee. He is former Member-At-Large for Division 51 (Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity). In 2014, Dr. Wan was awarded a Presidential Citation by APA President, Dr. Nadine Kaslow, and in 2012, he was selected to receive the James Besyner Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to VA Psychology by the AVAPL. In 2008-09, Dr. Wan was an Early Career Leadership Fellow with the Asian American Psychological Association, a leadership development program that he subsequently co-chaired for several years.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, learners should be able to:

1. Describe Gender Constructs

2. Describe Gender Roles and Norms

3. Describe the concepts related to Extremism and Gender

4. Describe the Intersectionality of Gender and other Identities

5. Describe 2 Measures and the role of clinicians in working to address the needs of men and boys.

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• Rogers, B. K., Sperry, H. A., & Levant, R. F. (2015). Masculinities among African American men: An intersectional perspective. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 16(4), 416–425.
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