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Talking About Sex with Every Client by Douglas Braun-Harvey

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Possibilities to start and lead sex-related conversations in the very first client session
The six sexual health principles that guide therapy selection and actions
Take away a customized evaluation plan that highlights your existing accomplishments and suggests fresh approaches to engaging clients in sex-related talks.

How come you are aware that discussing sex with your client is appropriate, but you just can’t seem to get yourself to do it?

Clients want therapists to open up knowledgeable, assured, and pertinent conversations about sex, yet many therapists unintentionally fall short of this goal. Clinicians frequently lack the guidance or education necessary to discuss sex with assurance. Too frequently, the answer to this problem is to completely avoid the subject of sexual health or to direct them to a nearby sex specialist. Unfortunately, this frequently results in the client never having the conversation or, worse still, leads them to feel that sex is something that is only brought up during emergencies or when someone has been wounded.

The goal of this course is to increase the confidence and readiness of clinicians of all levels to begin and facilitate sexual health dialogues with their clients. Douglas Braun-Harvey, a therapist and sex specialist, will provide you a variety of tools so you may concentrate your treatment on the positive parts of sex. After attending this class, you’ll be able to:

Recognize how the six pillars of sexual health serve as stepping stones for developing sex-related interactions.
Use these basic discussion techniques in psychotherapy with individuals, couples, families, and groups.
Get over the client and therapist’s innate reluctance to discuss sex
Recognize typical client sexual concerns, issues, and disorders
Integrate evaluation tools for sexual health to enhance diagnosis and treatment planning.

The intention is for you to depart with particular techniques and interpersonal abilities that boost your self-assurance in discussing sex on a personal and professional level!

Keeping Sexual Talk Out of Therapy?

Therapy avoids sexual topics
Clients who shun sexual conversation
The issue of avoiding sexual topics
evaluating current degree of readiness for sex conversation

Sexual Health Dialogues

The six “S” are: The most common ways to avoid discussing sex
Keeping your nervousness under control while discussing sex
Are you “prematurely evaluating” things?

What is sexual wellness?

guidelines for sexual health
Cultural and ethical underpinnings of sexual health
Values pertaining to sexual health

How Come Sexual Health?

Personal sexual health reflection
Self-evaluation of the sexual health of the client
Improve treatment results by talking about sexual health

The first six principles of sexual health

Consent
Non-exploitation
STI, HIV, and unintended or undesired pregnancy prevention
Honesty
Common Values
Pleasure

Basics of Sexual Health Discussion

putting off judgment
Confirm your sexual enjoyment.
An essential and fundamental human need is sexuality.
attempts to resolve a sexual fear or concern through behavior or symptoms
stage of preparation for changes in sexual health

The Most Important Sexual Health Conversations

Create a comfortable mental environment
Put off making judgments on sexual behavior
Process Here/Now therapeutic sexual health moments
Integrate counseling ideas with sexual health tenets
Refrain from interfering with the discussion of sexual health
therapist openness
In individual, couple, and group therapy, sexual health is discussed.
For interns and supervisees, three sexual health conversational strategies

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