Helping Clients Develop Sexual Wellbeing and Why It Matters
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Developing consensual sexual relationships can be a challenge, particularly for clients with problem sexual behaviors. All too often, these clients have little or no meaningful education in sexuality.
Bringing discussions of healthy sexuality to our clients requires candor and comprehensive sexuality education approaches. Yet how do we create an atmosphere of positive, non-coercive, and pleasurable sexual expression for individuals with problem sexual behaviors? Using a public health model that incorporates sexual health, sexual pleasure, sexual wellbeing, and sexual justice (Mitchell et al., 2021) and the Circles of Sexuality (Dailey, 1981), we can offer our clients an opportunity to develop the tools they need for consensual sexual and intimate relationships.
This session offers participants the most up-to-date research on the effectiveness of comprehensive sexuality education, two models of comprehensive sexuality education that can be used in treatment and psychoeducational groups, and the application of these approaches.
Topics to be covered include:
- Comprehensive sexuality education
- Relevant conceptual models
- Sexual health and wellbeing
- Helpful tips for teaching sexuality
1) Explain the effectiveness of using a comprehensive sexuality education approach with individuals with problem sexual behaviors.
2) Describe the Comprehensive Approach to Sexuality model.
3) Describe the Circles of Sexuality model.
4) Utilize aspects of existing models in work with individuals with problem sexual behaviors.
Audience
This training is for professionals working with people who have who have perpetrated abuse. Professionals who will benefit from this training include social workers, psychologists, clinical counselors, and interested paraprofessionals.
Content Level
Disclosure
Continuing Education Approval
American Psychological Association (APA)
Safer Society Foundation, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Safer Society Foundation, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Who's Presenting
Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS
Jane Fleishman, PhD, MEd, MS, is a writer, an award-winning educator, sexuality researcher, and AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator. She earned her M.Ed. and Ph.D. at Widener University Center for Human Sexuality Studies. She is on a mission to promote sexual wellness and doesn’t shy away from the difficult and complex realities of making that happen. She has presented at conferences all over the US and abroad. Her curious nature led to her latest accomplishment, The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging which recently won a coveted Nautilus Book Award. She co-hosts a regular Podcast on sex, and recently completed a popular TEDx talk. She is the proud mother of two really fabulous 20-somethings and lives in Northampton, MA.