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Issues related to Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity

Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Title of Event: Applied Clinical Ethics in Sex Therapy Practice

Description of Event:

Most ethics workshops have focuses primarily on the essential elements of risk management. While such concepts are clearly important, they represent only a fraction of what ethics and ethical practice should be about.  Indeed, most ethics workshops encourage sex therapists (and other healthcare practitioners) to think more like lawyers than as clinicians.

Pharmacology and Psychosexual Therapy

Title of Event: Pharmacology and Psychosexual Therapy

Description of Event:

This 3-hour hybrid course is designed for psychotherapists, sex therapists, and mental health clinicians seeking to integrate foundational pharmacological knowledge into psychosexual therapy. Psychotropic medications, hormonal therapies, and sexual function-related prescriptions can have significant effects—positive and negative—on sexual health, intimacy, and relationships.

Integrating Pelvic Floor Fundamentals Into Sex Therapy Practice: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Title of Event: Integrating Pelvic Floor Fundamentals Into Sex Therapy Practice: A Biopsychosocial Approach

Description of Event:

This 3-hour continuing education seminar introduces sex therapists to the essential role of the pelvic floor in sexual function and sexual pain. Blending anatomy, pain science, trauma- informed practice, and interprofessional collaboration, the course equips therapists with concrete skills to better assess, conceptualize, and treat clients with sexual pain or pelvic-floor–related sexual dysfunction.

More than Good Touch, Bad Touch: Framing Sexual Health Education in Elementary School

Title of Event: More than Good Touch, Bad Touch: Framing Sexual Health Education in Elementary School 
 
Description of Event: This session will provide participants an opportunity to learn strategies to make sexual health education accessible in K-5 settings. As sex ed, in general, continues to be taboo in many learning environments, participants will gain skills to use existing content areas to help students understand consent and bodily autonomy.
 

Sex education for college students: What is being taught and where?

Title of Event: Sex education for college students: What is being taught and where?
 
Description of Event: This lecture focuses on the prevalence of sexuality education in higher education institutions in the US. We distinguish two focuses of sexuality education: sexual violence prevention and sexual health promotion. A majority of American colleges and universities focus on sexual violence prevention, resulting in lesser emphasis on sexual health promotion. 
 

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