Assessing and Treating Sexual Dysfunction: A Systemic Approach
Sexual disorders are an often-overlooked class of psychopathology by mental health providers, often due to lack of sufficient clinical training, discomfort with the topic, and transference/countertransference issues in therapy. However, the ubiquitous nature of sexual difficulties, either secondary to another psychopathology, due to a co-morbid medical issue, or the result of the normal aging process, created a strong likelihood that sexual difficulties will go undiagnosed and untreated.
This presentation will go over common barriers clinicians feel to assessing sexual difficulties, address the relevance of assessing sexual function, even if not a part of the chief complaint, and discuss relevant components to conducting a comprehensive sexual health assessment. The presentation will then discuss treatment modalities that are used in sex therapy and several core skills used in sex therapy.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/Assessingand/viewFREE WEBINAR
Learning Objectives:
- Identify barriers to discussing sexuality with patients
- Describe the PLISSIT model for sex therapy
- Structure a sexual health assessment
- Describe the systemic approach to sex therapy
Agenda:
Assessing and Treating Sexual Dysfunction: A Systemic Approach
Shy Krug, Ph.D. CST
- Why Assess Sexual Health
- Why assessing sexual health matters for the general practitioner
- Relationship between sexual health and psychopathology
- Role of shame and stigma in sexual function
(10 minutes)
- Common Barriers for Clinicians
- Competency
- Personal vulnerability and biases
- Ethical Concerns
- What is sexological worldview, and what role does it play for clinicians
- Religious and Cultural Issues with the Jewish community
(10 minutes)
- What is the systemic approach to sex therapy?
- How is this different that older models of sex therapy?
- What is entailed in the systemic approach?
(10 minutes)
- How to approach the topic of sex
- Harris and Hayes 4 stage model
- Role of how patients vs. clinicians use language
- PLISSIT Model
- What are the two sexual response cycle used?
(20 minutes)
- Conducting a sexual health assessment
- Presenting problem
- Medical History
- Psychiatric History
- Social and Relationship History
- Sexual Health History
(30 minutes)
- Understanding the body
- anatomical structures and physiological processes
- sexual response cycle
- Impact of psychological functioning on physiology
- medical conditions that affect sexual function
(10 minutes)
- Psychological interventions
- Developmental models
- Cognitive models
- behavioral models
- Third-wave psychotherapies
- Couples therapy
(20 minutes)
- Foundational interventions in sex therapy
- PLISSIT Model
- Sensate focus therapy
- pleasure vs. outcome
- Communication skills training
- intimacy enhancing skills
- Psychoeducation
(20 minutes)
- Psychological interventions by type of dysfunction
- disorders of the arousal/desire stage
- disorders of the plateau stage
- disorders of the orgasm and ejaculation stage
- overview of sex therapy interventions
(3 0 minutes)
- Sensate focus therapy
- what sensate is and what it's not
- How to introduce sensate focus therapy
- How to assist patients in structuring sensate practice
- What spectatoring is
(20 minutes)
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: intermediate
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
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