The place of mindfulness in a sensorimotor psychotherapy intervention to improve women's sexual health

Mize, Sara; Iantaffi, Alex

doi:10.1080/14681994.2013.770144

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“…Although sex and relationship therapists have for many years now described appearance anxiety during sexual activity as a potential contributor to sexual functioning concerns, there has been little empirical investigation of the associations of appearance anxiety with sexual functioning. Recent work on the clinical applications of mindfulness within sex and relationship therapy (Brotto, Basson, & Luria, 2008; Mize & Iantaffi, 2013) may be operating on such links between appearance anxiety and sexual functioning by emphasizing present focus on one’s own bodily experiences versus cognitions that may fuel anxiety and be other focused. In bridging the gap between research and clinical work, mindfulness-based sexual health interventions are particularly promising given the current study’s findings.…”

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It’s Not the Size of the Boat or the Motion of the Ocean

Vencill

Tebbe

Garos

2015

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Research on psychological factors related to female sexual functioning has been growing in recent years. Our study draws on the existing sexual health literature and objectification theory to test a model of female sexual functioning. Using structural equation modeling, we examined the associations of body surveillance and internalization of cultural standards of beauty with appearance anxiety, depression, and sexual health (i.e., physical sexual functioning and subjective sexual well-being) in a sample of 426 sexually active, heterosexual, cisgender women. Further, we investigated the role of depression and appearance anxiety as mediators of the associations of body surveillance and internalization of cultural standards of beauty with sexual health. Our findings contribute to the growing body of empirical research that examines the role of sociocultural and psychological factors in female sexual functioning. Results suggest that depression and appearance anxiety fully mediated the relations of body surveillance with sexual well-being. However, internalization of cultural standards of beauty was not significant with any study outcomes. These findings expand on existing objectification theory literature by elucidating the associations of body surveillance and internalization of cultural standards of beauty with sexual functioning as well as by highlighting the importance of attending to body image, appearance anxiety, and depression when working clinically with women reporting concerns with their sexual functioning.

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It’s Not the Size of the Boat or the Motion of the Ocean

Vencill

Tebbe

Garos

2015

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…This approach builds on cognitive approaches, with the core tenet of “experiencing without passing judgement” applied to a sex therapy context [ 28 ]. Mindfulness sex therapy is particularly concerned with the bodily sensations and awareness of the five senses, in the present moment [ 29 ], including sensate focus [ 20 ], which helps individuals maximize their response by becoming more aware of their bodily sensations and by diminishing the performance demands of the situation. Mindfulness techniques have been quite effective, even when a sexual problem such as erectile dysfunction is somatic in origin.…”

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Remediation Strategies for Performance Anxiety across Sex, Sport and Stage: Identifying Common Approaches and a Unified Cognitive Model

Rowland

Moyle

Cooper

2021

IJERPH

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Strategies for addressing anxiety-related decrements in performance have been implemented across a variety of domains, including Sex, Sport, and Stage. In this review, we (1) iterate the dominant anxiety-related remediation strategies within each of these domains; (2) identify over-lapping and domain-specific strategies; and (3) attempt to unify the conceptualization of performance-related anxiety across these three areas under the information-processing framework of the Reflective/deliberative—Impulsive/automatic Model (RIM). Despite both diversity and similarity in remediation approaches across domains, we found that many strategies appear to share the common goal of maintaining a dominant automatic style of information processing in high performance demand situations. We then describe how various remediation strategies might hypothetically fit within the RIM framework and its subcomponents, identifying each intervention as falling into one or more broad categories related to achieving and/or maintaining dominance in automatic information processing. We conclude by affirming the benefit of adopting a unifying information-processing framework for the conceptualization of performance-related anxiety, as a way of both guiding future cross- and inter- disciplinary research and elucidating effective remediation models that share common pathways/mechanisms to improved performance.

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“…Among married individuals in Ebonyi State University, Nigeria, 17 discovered that couple's attitude towards sex, amount of physical affection, intimacy; foreplay, coital and orgasm frequency were perceived to significantly improve sexual satisfaction. According to 18 among women sexual concerns are some of the common issues reported to health professionals. Thus, 19 recommends that women suffering from sexual disorders should be encouraged not to die in silence but to seek professional intervention.…”

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Prevalence and Impact of Marital Sexual Relationship-Focused Premarital Counselling on Sexual Satisfaction Among Married Women

Saleh

2023

Journal of Psychosexual Health

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Background: Sexual satisfaction in marriage is paramount and key to marital satisfaction and happiness. Aims: This study is aimed at determining the prevalence and impact of marital sexual relationship-focused premarital counselling on sexual satisfaction among married women. Setting and Design: A total of 473 married women participated in this cross-sectional survey design; data was generated online utilizing Google form. Method and Material: Sexual satisfaction sub scale of Female Sexual Function Index was used in collecting data. Statistical analysis used: Chi-square and Univariate Analysis of Variance were used in testing the hypotheses in this study at 0.05 significance level. Results: Findings revealed high prevalence of marital sexual relationship focused premarital counselling among married women, with 73.6% of the married women in the study counselled on marital sexual relationship prior to their marriage, χ2 = 105.135, p = 0.0001 ( p < 0.05). Similarly, outcome of hypothesis two revealed significant difference in terms of prevalence of people that render marital sexual relationship focused premarital counselling, with 29.6%, 26.6%, 8.0%, 4.9%, 3.0%, 0.6%, 3.0%, 0.4% and 0.4% respectively, that were educated by pastors, mother, female friend, aunt, grandmother, mothers’ friend, step mother and Imam, χ2 = 540.918, p = 0.0001 ( p < 0.05). Finally, result of hypothesis three revealed that marital sexual relationship focused premarital counselling have significant impact on sexual satisfaction, means; 1.57, 1.44, F (1,471) = 5.923, p = 0.015 ( p < 0.05). Participants that were counselled on marital sexual relationship had mean sexual satisfaction score of 1.57, while those that were not counselled had mean sexual satisfaction score of 1.44. Conclusions: Findings of the study is an implication for marriage counsellors and other professionals that handle marriage related issues to be intentional in addressing marital sexual relationship issues during premarital counselling and there is need to develop marital sexual relationship premarital counselling guide which can help in addressing issues concerning marital sexual relationship during premarital counselling.

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The place of mindfulness in a sensorimotor psychotherapy intervention to improve women's sexual health

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

It’s Not the Size of the Boat or the Motion of the Ocean

It’s Not the Size of the Boat or the Motion of the Ocean

Remediation Strategies for Performance Anxiety across Sex, Sport and Stage: Identifying Common Approaches and a Unified Cognitive Model

Prevalence and Impact of Marital Sexual Relationship-Focused Premarital Counselling on Sexual Satisfaction Among Married Women

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