Assignment
Write a 3 page paper in which you do the following:
· Identify sexual issues or concerns arising in therapy that create a need for sex therapy versus marriage and family therapy.
· Compare sex therapy to marriage and family therapy.
· Describe our perusal definition of health sexual functioning and explain how it compares to sexual dysfunction.
· Discuss how a therapist comparison of sexual functions and dysfunction might play a role in the success of his or her sex therapy practice.
· Discuss the importance of a not-knowing stance in terms of a client's definition of sexual functions
a. How might a therapist best approach this concept in therapy?
2. Discuss the implications of framing sex therapy around a sexual dysfunction rather than sexual function.
a. How might this be avoided?
b. What are the benefits and risk that go along with this mindset?