Addressing Modern Sexual Issues in Therapy: Effective Clinical Strategies for an Evolving World

VYNE

Format(s):   Live Seminars
Discipline(s):   Counseling / Social Work / Psychology
Contact Hours:
Registration Fee:   $189.990005493164

Objectives

•Describe ways in which sexuality has evolved alongside modern technology, media, and social changes, including the shifting and fluid concepts of sexual orientation

•Apply a process to self-identify biases about sex and prevent these biases from affecting treatment

•Discuss strategies to distinguish healthy sexual diversity from sexual symptoms of emotional disturbance related to PTSD, anxiety, depression, and personality disorders

•Identify when rape, abuse, or domestic violence is masked by BDSM

•Recommend strategies for helping patients and their families understand and contextualize their sexuality, reducing clients' fear and shame about sexuality, and marketing to reach kinky patients who need help but fear being shamed

•Evaluate clinical strategies for assessing, treating, and responding to unique, modern sexual dilemmas

Description

When it comes to sex, the definition of "mainstream" is changing &mash; fast &mash; and clients are disclosing new relationship and life issues in therapy that weren't on the radar 5 years ago:

•Fifty Shades of Grey brought kinky sex into the open, and into the bedrooms of millions of people (resulting in a host of "creative differences" in relationships)

•High school students are sexting

•National dialogues have raised concerns over the prevalence of rape and need for consent

•Hookup apps and social media have normalized casual sex

•Internet porn is only a smartphone away, affecting work situations and countless marriages (half of all divorces involve complaints over porn use)

•More couples are deciding to open their relationships up to alternative lifestyles, including nonmonogamy

•Young people are openly identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, gender queer, sexually fluid, and a range of other evolving sexual orientations

These situations and countless more are walking into therapists' offices every day, and most therapists have no training, resources, or guidance on how to conceptualize or treat these issues.

In this seminar we will delve into how tech, media, and social changes affect modern sexuality, relationships, and mental health. Myths about these issues will be dispelled, with attention to ways that therapists can really understand what these issues mean for their clients. Guidance on assessment, intervention, and treatment planning is given with lively, entertaining, and exciting real-world examples and case studies to help prevent over–pathologization of sexual behaviors, just because they're new, misunderstood, and scary.

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