Biopsychosocial Assessment and Sexual History Taking in Sex and Couples Therapy

Title of Event: Biopsychosocial Assessment and Sexual History Taking in Sex and Couples Therapy

Description of Event:

This 3-hour seminar teaches sex and couples therapists how to conduct a comprehensive, ethical, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive biopsychosocial assessment with specific emphasis on taking a sex history. Students will learn how to move beyond symptom collection and assess the biological, psychological, relational, cultural, developmental, and contextual factors that shape sexual functioning and sexual distress.

The course integrates the biopsychosocial model, current sexual health history frameworks, sex-positive clinical interviewing, and interdisciplinary referral considerations. The biopsychosocial model is widely used in sexual medicine and sex therapy, but recent scholarship cautions that clinicians must apply it fully rather than reduce sexual concerns to only medical, psychological, or relational explanations.

Date of Event: October 22nd, 2026

Time of Event: 1:45 PM EDT -4:45 PM EDT

Location: Online Synchronous 

Sex Therapy (ST) Training:

ST2. Techniques of sex-related assessment and diagnosis of the Psychosexual Disorders described in the current edition of the DSM.

Presenter/Speaker: Diana Melnick

Contact Name: Raiza Queen Calda Enriquez

Contact Email: office@rivkasidorsky.com

Event Website: https://rivkasidorsky.org/workshops/BiopsychosocialAssessment/view

AASECT Approved CEs: 3