Objectives
This class is designed to teach students to:
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Describe the sexual disorders in the DSM 5 and organize according Masters and Johnson’s four-phase sexual response cycle and Kaplan’s three-phase cycle.
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List and describe the differing diagnoses and the underlying characteristics that will determine treatment.
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Formulate different treatment interventions based on the nature of the disorder or dysfunction.
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Effectively integrate and implement behavioral, cognitive, and trauma interventions according to individual cases.
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Incorporate alternative interventions such as tantric sexual practice into treatment.
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Compile list of alternative resource referrals.
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Teach effective communication strategies to couples in treatment.
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Describe how to maintain desire in a long-term relationship.
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Incorporate strategies specific to one population into others.
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Utilize intimacy handouts in sex therapy.
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Utilize scales and questionnaires in therapy.
