Sex Therapy is Special Because it Deals with Sex

Pukall, Caroline F.

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“…The studies of therapists' sense of comfort in the therapy room, engaged in couple and family therapists, psychotherapists and medical therapists (Bancroft, 2006;Caupit, 2010;Nasserzadeh, 2009;Marom et al, 2011;Moore, 2018;Pukall, 2009;Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996;Timm, 2009). However, there are no studies of these therapists' sense of comfort to discuss sexuality in the therapy room.…”

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“…Sexuality is an important and inseparable part of people's life and the life of couples. Hence, it is important that therapists display a sense of comfort to discuss the clients' sexuality and if it does not happen, then the therapy is undermined (Bancroft, 2006;Caupit, 2010;Kazukauskas & Lam, 2010;Moore, 2018;Moser, 2009;Pukall, 2009;Timm 2009). Contradictory findings were obtained from studies that examined therapists' sense of comfort and willingness to discuss sexuality with their clients, searched for the relation between knowledge about the topic of sex and the clients' attitudes towards sexuality.…”

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Sociological And Socio-Educational Attitudes Towards Sexuality Among Sex Therapists

Shafrir¹,

Balahur²

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Sociological And Socio-Educational Attitudes Towards Sexuality Among Sex Therapists

Shafrir¹,

Balahur²

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…The campaign was intended to encourage Britons to bring sexual difficulties to their treating clinician. Although it was primarily intended to encourage people to talk to medical professionals, it prompted a dialogue amongst psychological therapists about whether therapeutic training adequately equips them to have conversations about sex and which theoretical frameworks their work should draw on (e.g., Moon, 2011;Pukall, 2009).…”

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“…The reluctance to put sex on training agendas for therapists has been regarded as an expression of cultural shame around sexual issues that prevents frank discussion about sex (Pukall, 2009). Clients who do disclose sexual difficulties to therapists are often told that their difficulties cannot be addressed as part of their therapy and are signposted to sex therapy services (Barker, 2011).…”

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Therapists’ and non‐therapists’ constructions of heterosex: A qualitative story completion study

2018

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Objectives. Little research has examined the discourses that shape therapists' sense-making around heterosex. This paper explores the discourses of sexuality and gender underpinning therapists' and non-therapists' responses to a sexual experimentation scenario in a heterosexual relationship. It also considers the value of the novel technique of story completion (SC), in which participants are asked to write a story in response to a hypothetical scenario, for qualitative psychology and psychotherapy research.Design. This research used a comparative SC design (Kitzinger & Powell, 1995). Participants were sequentially presented with and invited to complete two story stems: one in which a male character suggested 'trying something new' to his female partner and one in which the female character made the suggestion. The stems were otherwise identical. Methods.A total of 100 SCs were written by 49 (28 female; 21 male) therapists and 51 (29 female; 22 male) non-therapists. Participants were recruited mainly via UK-based email lists and Facebook groups, and therapeutic training organizations, and the data were analysed using a feminist post-structuralist thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006).Results. Both groups of participants drew on heteronormative discourses of sexuality and gender to make sense of the stem. Engaging in sexual experimentation was often depicted as a demonstration of being normal. In some stories written by women, sex was framed as a site for negotiating 'equality' and reciprocity in relationships. Therapists were more likely than non-therapists to frame 'difficulties' within relationships as opportunities for personal growth and increased emotional depth, and their stories included greater emotional complexity.Conclusion. These findings raise questions about practitioner training and whether it results in therapists drawing on narrow and restrictive discourses of heterosex in clinical practice. Practitioner pointsTraining on sexual issues is largely absent from non-specialist practitioner training courses, which potentially means therapists are ill-equipped to respond to clients' anxiety about sexual issues. Evidence from this and other research indicates that therapists' sense-making around heterosexual

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The Wiley Handbook of Sex Therapy

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Sex Therapy is Special Because it Deals with Sex

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Sociological And Socio-Educational Attitudes Towards Sexuality Among Sex Therapists

Sociological And Socio-Educational Attitudes Towards Sexuality Among Sex Therapists

Therapists’ and non‐therapists’ constructions of heterosex: A qualitative story completion study

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