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Professional Training In Sexuality

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Professional training in sexuality refers to educational programs designed to equip individuals, particularly those in health, education, and counseling fields, with the knowledge and skills necessary to address sexual health, behavior, and education effectively. This training encompasses understanding sexual development, diversity, and the socio-cultural factors influencing sexual attitudes and practices.
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Professional training in sexuality refers to educational programs designed to equip individuals, particularly those in health, education, and counseling fields, with the knowledge and skills necessary to address sexual health, behavior, and education effectively. This training encompasses understanding sexual development, diversity, and the socio-cultural factors influencing sexual attitudes and practices.

Key research themes

1. How can initial teacher education and professional development enhance the delivery of comprehensive sexuality education in schools?

This research area investigates the role of teacher training—especially in initial teacher education (ITE) and ongoing professional development—in empowering educators to deliver high-quality, inclusive, and effective sexuality education (SE) in school settings. Given that teachers are pivotal in creating a safe and informative environment for young people, their preparedness, attitudes, knowledge, and self-efficacy significantly impact the implementation and outcomes of SE curricula. Understanding the existing training practices, limitations, and needs can inform improvements to teacher education programs, thereby advancing comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) globally.

Key finding: This systematic review of 15 empirical studies (1990-2019) highlights limited and inconsistent provision of sexuality education during ITE across international contexts. It finds that adequate pre-service and in-service... Read more
Key finding: A nationwide cross-sectional survey of 239 Australian sexuality education teachers demonstrates that increased hours and quality of training correlate with greater comfort and self-efficacy in delivering sexuality education... Read more
Key finding: Although focused on oncology health professionals, this study's two-year educational intervention — including workshops — led to significant improvements in participants' perceived knowledge, training sufficiency, and... Read more
Key finding: This expert-driven initiative developed a competency-based undergraduate sexual medicine curriculum, grounded in a biopsychosocial model integrating biological, psychological, and sociocultural facets of sexuality. Through a... Read more
Key finding: This multidisciplinary consensus effort produced a set of sexual health competencies designed for integration into undergraduate medical education curricula in North America. It identifies critical gaps in current training... Read more

2. What are the critical components and evaluation strategies for holistic and comprehensive sexuality education programs?

This theme explores defining features, content components, pedagogical approaches, and evaluation frameworks for holistic sexuality education (HSE) and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). It considers how these programs address cognitive, emotional, social, and physical aspects of sexuality, aiming to empower learners with skills, knowledge, and positive attitudes. Evaluation research and expert consensus highlight the importance of multi-dimensional assessments covering program design, implementation, and impact on knowledge, behaviors, and values. Identifying shared effective components guides development and policy for sexuality education worldwide.

Key finding: This paper introduces the concept of holistic sexuality education (HSE) as a positive, age-appropriate, developmental, and comprehensive approach prevalent in some European countries. It critiques dominant SE evaluation... Read more
Key finding: This systematic review identifies heterogeneity in sexuality education interventions globally, contrasting abstinence-only, abstinence-plus, and comprehensive approaches. It finds robust evidence supporting comprehensive... Read more
Key finding: This extensive edited volume aggregates interdisciplinary scholarship on sexuality education, highlighting diverse international practices, challenges, and theoretical perspectives. Contributions discuss curriculum content,... Read more
Key finding: This editorial contextualizes sexuality education as a contested curriculum area, characterized by tensions between public health prevention and positive health/well-being perspectives. It emphasizes the socio-political... Read more
Key finding: Using qualitative methods with South African adolescents, this study finds that CSE as currently delivered is often insufficiently comprehensive and inadequately responsive to learners' needs. The co-construction of a praxis... Read more

3. How can sexuality professionals be effectively trained to address sexual health comprehensively, including nuanced areas such as medicalization, psychosexual medicine, kink-awareness, and sexual dysfunction?

This research theme examines diverse strategies and frameworks for professional training in sexuality-related fields beyond school-based education, including clinical psychosexual medicine, medicalization of sexuality, awareness of kink/BDSM communities, and integrated approaches to sexual dysfunction treatments. The focus is on equipping health professionals and sex therapists with competencies that encompass psychological, behavioral, medical, and socio-cultural dimensions, addressing barriers like limited knowledge, discomfort, and stigma. Innovative curricula, combined therapies, and specialized training programs are critical for enhancing provider confidence and patient outcomes.

Key finding: This paper reports on the establishment of a psychosexual medicine unit within a tertiary care teaching hospital in India, providing a model for interdisciplinary collaboration among psychiatry, psychology, gynecology, and... Read more
Key finding: This article presents the integration of sex therapy techniques into clinical practice for sexual dysfunction (SD), highlighting the 'Cornell Model' and 'sex coaching for physicians.' It advocates combining pharmacotherapy... Read more
Key finding: The authors argue that sexuality professionals must move beyond being merely 'kink-friendly' to becoming fully trained and competent in addressing BDSM/kink-related issues due to increased mainstream visibility of kink. They... Read more
Key finding: This randomized clinical trial evaluates a sexual skills training program using an eclectic therapeutic approach for married Iranian women, demonstrating significant improvements in sexual function post-intervention. The... Read more
Key finding: The review critiques the increasing medicalization of sexuality, especially in aging populations, where sexual desire and performance issues are often pathologized and treated pharmacologically. It highlights the tension... Read more

All papers in Professional Training In Sexuality

Résumé Au Sénégal, les troubles sexuels posent un réel problème de diagnostic et surtout de prise en charge, en rapport avec le manque d’informations des patients, les tabous sexuels et la rareté supposée de ces affections. Des patients... more
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with... more
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors institution and sharing with... more
Premature ejaculation (PE) is a disorder characterized by three components: (1) a rapid ejaculation, (2), a feeling of lack of control upon ejaculation, (3) and a distress related to this condition. The criterion of rapidity appear to be... more
How do we deal with our own sexuality as teachers and as learners in the classroom? As a seminary professor in a mainline Christian context, I find that discussing sexuality increases student discomfort levels by threatening to raise... more
The authors originally posited that a new construct must be developed to measure the success of affective training for sexologists, particularly the Sexuality Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) modality. Couching their critique in studies that... more
El artículo propone explorar prácticas y experiencias de lectura de literatura de mujeres de sectores populares a partir de biografías de lectura. Los discursos de las lectoras coinciden en describir el acto de lectura a través del modelo... more
At the moment, the scientific community recognizes two main treatments of premature ejaculation: (1) the “classical” method elaborated by Masters and Johnson in 1970 and (2) a pharmacological method consisting in using antidepressant... more
Premature ejaculation (PE) is a disorder characterized by three components: (1) a rapid ejaculation, (2), a feeling of lack of control upon ejaculation, (3) and a distress related to this condition. The criterion of rapidity appear to be... more
The primary purpose of this study was to determine what someone who was interested in obtaining a provider for sex therapy would find if they simply searched for sex therapy using the Google search engine. The goal was to ascertain how... more
At the moment, the scientific community recognizes two main treatments of premature ejaculation: (1) the “classical” method elaborated by Masters and Johnson in 1970 and (2) a pharmacological method consisting in using antidepressant... more
L’éjaculation précoce (EP) est un trouble qui répond à trois critères : (1) une éjaculation rapide, (2) un sentiment de manque de contrôle sur celle-ci et (3) une détresse relative à la situation. Par delà ces repères, les manières de... more
Résumé Au Sénégal, les troubles sexuels posent un réel problème de diagnostic et surtout de prise en charge, en rapport avec le manque d’informations des patients, les tabous sexuels et la rareté supposée de ces affections. Des patients... more
L’éjaculation précoce (EP) est un trouble qui répond à trois critères : (1) une éjaculation rapide, (2) un sentiment de manque de contrôle sur celle-ci et (3) une détresse relative à la situation. Par delà ces repères, les manières de... more
Courses in sexological education typically aim to build student's levels of knowledge, skills, 'comfort' with sexological content, and equip them in their professional practice. It is important for students to understand their own... more
When working with clients on issues of sexuality, clinicians often avoid the treatment approach of surrogate partner therapy due to lack of information and understanding. Surrogate partner therapy is a grey area within legal and ethical... more
In recent years, a growing number of interventions for treatment of female orgasmic problems (FODs) have emerged. Whereas orgasm is a extra biologically and learnable experience, there is a need for practitioners that to be able to select... more
The current study evaluated long-term effects of a training model in human sexuality on public school teachers' knowledge and attitudes. The data indicated that, although significant changes were found from the pretest to posttest... more
Résumé Au Sénégal, les troubles sexuels posent un réel problème de diagnostic et surtout de prise en charge, en rapport avec le manque d’informations des patients, les tabous sexuels et la rareté supposée de ces affections. Des patients... more
Synopsis des essais comportant des évaluations pré-vs. post-traitements psychosexologiques de l'EP (mise à jour07-2014)
This study is part of an investigation funded by NIMH Grant # MH32241.
This study is part of an investigation funded by NIMH Grant # MH32241.
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Background / Purpose: This poster describes the graduate programs in human sexuality at Widener University, the only PhD granting interdisciplinary program in sexuality at a fully accredited university in the world. Main conclusion: This... more
Chwalisz's (2003 [this issue]) call to adopt the evidence-based practice model provides an opportunity for counseling psychologists to reexamine both their commitment to the scientist-practitioner model and their unique professional... more
L’objectif de ce mémoire est de préciser les pratiques des psychiatres de notre C.H. psychiatrique concernant le diagnostic et le traitement des DFS chez leurs patients schizophrènes et de faire le point sur l’état actuel des... more
The University, duly authorized by the authors or their legal representatives, herewith authorizes the User, in accordance with the principles of the "Budapest Open Access Initiative"(BOAI, 2002), to read, download, copy,... more
The authors originally posited that a new construct must be developed to measure the success of affective training for sexologists, particularly the Sexuality Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) modality. Couching their critique in studies that... more
The authors originally posited that a new construct must be developed to measure the success of affective training for sexologists, particularly the Sexuality Attitudes Reassessment (SAR) modality. Couching their critique in studies that... more
Background / Purpose: This poster describes the graduate programs in human sexuality at Widener University, the only PhD granting interdisciplinary program in sexuality at a fully accredited university in the world. Main conclusion: This... more
Mais avant de commencer, il est bon de dire qu'il n'est pas du tout rare de rencontrer des difficultés dans la sphère sexuelle au cours de la vie. Levez la main, en fait, qui n'a pas vécu au moins une fois dans sa vie sans pouvoir... more
While the quality of treatment traditionally has been a reflection of educational diplomas and professional licences, clinicians are now challenged to document treatment methods based on updated research. The American Psychological... more
Reseña del libro "Cuerpo sin patrones", compilación realizada por Laura Contrera y Nicolás Cuello en la que problematizan la existencia social y política del cuerpo gordo y –como una paradoja– la invisibilización social, política y del... more
El trabajo aborda el vínculo entre mujeres jóvenes y violencia de género en la Argentina a partir de revisar datos estadísticos, argumentos conceptuales y prácticas concretas relevadas etnográficamente. Parte de asumir que dicho vínculo... more
Desde hace unas décadas la representación de la mujer liberada se asocia a su liberación sexual, a la que suele medirse por sus encuentros sexuales por fuera del matrimonio, no reproductivos, ocasionales y/o no heteronormativos, pero... more
An English version of this article is available on line, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sexol.2012.01.011. Abstract: The concept of sexual desire is not easy to define, and even less to assess. However, a significant number of women... more
L'éjaculation prématurée est une dysfonction sexuelle très fréquente caractérisée par la perte de contrôle des éjaculations, entraînant une anxiété de performance et, par conséquent, une altération de la qualité de vie des patients et de... more
The present study examined patient and problem characteristics as well as therapy process factors associated with succe.ss and failure in sex therapy for secondary orgasmic dysfunction. Ss were 23 married couples selected for emotional... more
outcome represent fundamental conceptual and methodological issues. The present investigation examined the relationship between how data were obtained (by retrospective questionnaire or ongoing daily self-monitoring), what outcome... more
The present study examined patient and problem characteristics as well as therapy process factors associated with succe.ss and failure in sex therapy for secondary orgasmic dysfunction. Ss were 23 married couples selected for emotional... more
outcome represent fundamental conceptual and methodological issues. The present investigation examined the relationship between how data were obtained (by retrospective questionnaire or ongoing daily self-monitoring), what outcome... more
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L'impuissance est définie comme l'incapacité durable à obtenir et à maintenir une érection suffisante pour un rapport sexuel. On estime que plus de 39% des français rencontrent occasionnellement des problèmes d'érection . Par ailleurs, au... more
The concept of sexual desire is not easy to define, and even less to assess. However, a significant number of women suffer from a decrease in libido, thus constituting one of the main complaints received in sexological consultation.... more
L'article pr4sente des 414ments de r4flexion historiques et sociologiques sur le processus de m4dicalisation de la sexualit4. Ce processus est d4fini comme : -un mode de production de connaissances fondamentales sur la sexualit4 fond4 sur... more
Based on a review covering 80 research papers selected from a larger material on effect of non-pharmacological treatment of sexual problems, treatment methods and techniques for common sexual problems are presented and the treatment... more
Based on a review covering 80 research papers selected from a larger material on effect of non-pharmacological treatment of sexual problems, treatment methods and techniques for common sexual problems are presented and the treatment... more
Recherche sur la thérapie ; Méthodes de traitement ; Problèmes sexuels ; Effets du traitement ; Sexothérapie Résumé D'après une synthèse fondée sur 80 articles de recherche sélectionnés à partir du plus grand nombre de documents consacrés... more
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