Sexual Wellbeing: Why It Matters for Individuals Who Cause Harm
This webinar is for professionals and educators involved in sex education, sexual health, and interpersonal relationships. This also includes professionals working in mental health, and related fields.
Promoting consensual sexual relationships can be a challenge, particularly in the context of working with clients who have a history of problem sexual behaviors. Bringing discussions of healthy sexuality and positive, non-coercive, and pleasurable sexual expression to our clients necessitates candor and a comprehensive sexuality education approach. Using a public health model which incorporates sexual health, sexual pleasure, sexual wellbeing, and sexual justice (Mitchell et al., 2021) and the Circles of Sexuality model (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 for psychoeducational groups, ample time for the application of these approaches, and discussion about the challenges clients face.
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.