Psychologists' Continuing Education and Training in Sexuality

Miller, Sarah; Byers, E. Sandra

doi:10.1080/00926230802716336

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“…Like for other forms of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997), education is one means to enhancing sexual intervention self-efficacy, at least regarding the ability to utilize sex therapy techniques and relay accurate sexual information. The overall low levels of sexual intervention selfefficacy of participants and the limited extent to which they were addressing their clients' sexual concerns suggest that psychologists (and likely clinicians from other professional groups) need more sexuality training both at the graduate level and through continuing education (Miller & Byers, 2009. Such training needs to increase sexual knowledge in general as well as to enhance skills related to efficacious treatment of a variety of common sexual issues and concerns.…”

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“…That is, many individuals will not discuss sexual issues unless the clinician initiates the conversation and demonstrates an openness and comfort with this topic even though their sexual concerns are relevant to the therapeutic goals (Hegarty, Brown, & Gunn, 2007;Metz & Seifert, 1990;Rubin,2004). Reissing and Di Giulio (2010; see also Miller & Byers, 2009) found that over half of the clinical psychologists they surveyed rarely or never asked clients about their sexual well-being. To be effective at developing strategies to enhance the likelihood that clinicians will address sexual concerns with their clients, it is important to identify factors that influence their willingness to do so.…”

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Practicing Psychologists’ Sexual Intervention Self-Efficacy and Willingness to Treat Sexual Issues

Miller

Byers

2011

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Many clients who are not seeking sex therapy experience sexual concerns that affect their overall psychological well-being. However, they may be hesitant to broach them if clinicians do not ask about these issues. The current study assessed a model of how sex education and training affect clinicians' sexual intervention self-efficacy (confidence addressing sexual issues) and, in turn, their willingness to address sexual issues. Participants who had completed their graduate work and internship and had been working for more than a year providing therapy to adults were recruited for an on-line survey from the Canadian Registrar of Health Service Providers, the American Psychological Association, and provincial licensing organizations; 110 psychologists completed the survey. Psychologists were found to lack self-efficacy, particularly related to their ability to directly address clients' sexual concerns (Skills Self-Efficacy) and ability to relay accurate information (Information Self-Efficacy). They also did not routinely ask clients about sexual issues. Bootstrapping analysis showed that, consistent with the proposed model, participants who had more graduate level sex education obtained significantly more sex education following internship. This, in turn, was associated with significantly higher Skills Self-Efficacy and Information Self-Efficacy and, ultimately, to clinicians engaging in significantly more intervention behaviors. Sex education and training did not relate to self-efficacy regarding appearing comfortable and being unbiased when addressing sexual issues with clients (Comfort/Bias Self-Efficacy). The results were discussed in terms of the role of graduate education in enhancing sexual intervention self-efficacy as well as the role of self-efficacy in psychologists' willingness to treat their clients' sexual problems and concerns.

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Practicing Psychologists’ Sexual Intervention Self-Efficacy and Willingness to Treat Sexual Issues

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2011

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“…This suggests that the workshop was instrumental in shifting clinicians' attitudes about the importance of sexual health in the lives of their patients. This goal has been noted as essential to improving treatment for women suffering from sexual complaints (Hinchliff, Gott, and Galena 2005;Miller and Byers 2009).…”

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“…CE workshops are the major source of professional training after graduate school and healthcare professionals rate their CE experiences nearly as highly as their personal and clinical experience (Houge 1988). Miller and Byers (2009) report that psychologists who attend CE workshops focused on treating sexual complaints reported improved knowledge and greater feelings of competency and confidence. In addition, healthcare professionals who received CE training on sexual health issues were more likely to ask their patients about their sexual health, take a sexual history and treat sexual complaints (Houge 1988).…”

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Improving women's sexual health: a quantitative evaluation of an educational intervention for healthcare professionals

Blair¹,

Arnow²,

Haas³

et al. 2013

Sex Education

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Forty-three per cent of women in the USA report some type of sexual complaint and these complaints have been shown to negatively impact quality of life and overall wellbeing. With proper training and experience, healthcare professionals are in a unique position to help their patients improve their sexual health. The present study was designed to increase knowledge about female sexual dysfunction by offering a continuing education workshop combining didactic and experiential learning. Healthcare professionals representing the specialties of obstetrics, gynaecology, primary care, psychiatry and psychology attended the conference. Participants completed a pre-and post-test questionnaire assessing levels of comfort, competence, attitudes toward female sexual health and readiness for change. Using the pre-and posttest questionnaire, participants reported a significant increase in awareness about the importance of discussing issues of sexual health with their patients. Participants also reported motivation (or intent) to ask their patients about their sexual health. Providing information about female sexual dysfunction and its impact on patients' quality of life, effective treatments and referral resources as well as giving healthcare professionals an opportunity to practise asking about sexual health with facilitated feedback may significantly improve their motivation to respond to female sexual complaints.

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“…This behavior was pointed out by the lack of knowledge and attitude related to the elderly patient's sexual expression regardless of the health professionals' prejudices and age [7,8]. For the clinical nurses' taking a role as an educator with relation to sexual health with holistic and whole life cyclic view point, there is a necessity to confirm the human responses related to sexuality and to intervene it with enough knowledge of and adequate attitude toward sexuality of the elderly.…”

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Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude about the Elderly’s Sexuality

Sil¹,

Kwang²,

Deungpo-gu³

2015

Advanced Science and Technology Letters

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Abstract.Aim: This purpose of research is to ascertain nurses' knowledge level and attitudes about the sexuality of the elderly. Background: This research is a descriptive study. The objects were 231 nurses who have been working at general hospitals and long-term care hospitals in S, I City. Method: The data were analyzed with SPSS version 15.0. Frequency, percentage, average & standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA and Duncan method as a post-hoc were used. Result: The mean of the level of knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding sexuality of the elderly was 18.97±5.58, and 39.03±5.18 respectively. Conclusion: It is thought that efforts should be done not only on strengthening the academic curriculum of nursing related to the sexuality of the elderly at the school as nursing students university, but also on developing and applying the continuous systematic education module according to the level of the clinical nurses caring the elders by continuing education for improving their knowledge and attitude toward sexuality of the elderly.

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Psychologists' Continuing Education and Training in Sexuality

Cited by 46 publications

References 17 publications

Practicing Psychologists’ Sexual Intervention Self-Efficacy and Willingness to Treat Sexual Issues

Practicing Psychologists’ Sexual Intervention Self-Efficacy and Willingness to Treat Sexual Issues

Improving women's sexual health: a quantitative evaluation of an educational intervention for healthcare professionals

Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude about the Elderly’s Sexuality

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