Training non‐psychologists in the treatment of sexual dysfunction with special reference to the training of marriage guidance counsellors

Brown, Pam; Bollinger, Charmian

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1985.tb02643.x

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“…In 1974 the DHSS had begun to fund a Marital Sexual Dysfunction Project with the National Marriage Guidance Council, which aimed to examine the feasibility of providing training for marriage counsellors to enable them to treat sexual dysfunctions (Barkla, 1977;Brown, 1979;Heisler, 1983;Brown & Bollinger, 1985). A grant from the DHSS was also given to the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council in August 1977 to support a two-year pilot scheme to train counsellors in the treatment of psychosexual problems (Home Office, 1979).…”

Section: Psychosexual Seminar Training For Nursesmentioning

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Thirty years of psychosexual nursing

Irwin

2006

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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December 2005 marks thirty years since the end of the first experimental psychosexual seminar training scheme provided specifically for nurses in the United Kingdom. This pilot study, which ran from January 1974 until December 1975, was funded by the Department of Health and Social Security and run under the auspices of the Family Planning Association. It provided psychosexual training for three groups of nurses, midwives and health visitors who worked predominantly in contraception services. Drawing on archival sources, this paper describes the pilot study and reviews its contribution to two subsequent developments in psychosexual care provided by nurses: the creation, by the then Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies, of a short course on the principles of psychosexual counselling for qualified nurses and midwives (Course 985); and the foundation of psychosexual nursing based on Balint-style seminar training. The aim of such training in psychosexual nursing is not to turn nurses into psychosexual counsellors -although some seminartrained nurses do work in this role -but to enable them to recognise and respond constructively to the psychosexual issues encountered in their everyday practice.

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Section: Psychosexual Seminar Training For Nursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thirty years of psychosexual nursing

Irwin

2006

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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“…In contrast to the previously dominant psychoanalytical conceptualisation of sexual dysfunctions as symptoms of deep-rooted unconscious conflicts that were often resistant to therapeutic intervention, Masters and Johnson (1970, 21), considered ‘sociocultural deprivation’ and ‘ignorance of sexual physiology’ to constitute the aetiological background for most sexual function problems. Their rapid but intensive couple-based approach to treatment, comprising education, ‘permission-giving’ and the use of certain behavioural techniques, opened up the possibility of sexual difficulties being successfully treated by suitably trained practitioners from a range of disciplines, and helped to create a new type of ‘sex expert’, the sex therapist (Cooper 1988; Brown and Bollinger 1985; Brown 1980; Morrow 2008). Based on 11 years of their treatment programme (and 5 years of patient follow-up), the results Masters and Johnson reported for their therapeutic approach to sexual dysfunction suggested a remarkably low failure rate of only 20%.…”

Section: The Emerging Imperative To Speak Of Sex During Medical Consu...mentioning

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Sparing the doctor’s blushes: the use of sexually explicit films for the purpose of Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) in the training of medical practitioners in Britain during the 1970s

Irwin

2022

Med Humanities

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The general reluctance of medical practitioners in postwar Britain to ‘speak of sex’ during healthcare consultations increasingly became a matter of professional concern in the wake of legal reforms and social changes during the 1960s affecting sexual expression and reproductive health, and a growing optimism in the early 1970s concerning the treatment of sexual difficulties. In the mid-1970s, largely as a result of the work of Dr Elizabeth Stanley, Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) seminars were introduced from the USA into some medical schools in Britain, usually as a part of courses that were intended to help students develop the attitudes, knowledge and skills needed to facilitate the discussion of patients’ sexual concerns and to treat ‘simple’ sexual problems. SAR seminars entailed the showing of sexually explicit films as a stimulus for exploring, in small discussion groups, the sexual attitudes and beliefs of students, and the potential impact of these on future professional practice. Drawing on publications by Dr Elizabeth Stanley as well as archival materials, this article examines the aims of SAR seminars, the rationale provided for their inclusion in the undergraduate medical curriculum, and the ‘permission-giving’, educative approach to sexual counselling that SAR seminars supported. It also explores some of the barriers to the more widespread use of such seminars in medical education in Britain at this time. The behaviourally informed ‘permission-giving’ approach to sexual counselling promoted by Stanley and others is also considered alongside the more psychoanalytically informed ‘interpretative’ form of sexual counselling provided by some Family Planning Association doctors from the late 1950s onwards. This comparative analysis reveals contrasting perceptions concerning the role of medical practitioners’ emotions in sexual counselling and elucidates some of the reasons for the fragmented and limited development of this aspect of medical practice in Britain.

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“…Psychology should support them in the development of their own professional competences and identity. They are not educated to become psychologists or to use genuinely psychological methods (but see, e.g., Brown & Bollinger, 1985;Dryden, 1985;Yule, 1975). For example, teachers should be supported to become more attentive teachers by learning which psychological problems their students might develop.…”

Section: Psychology Curricula For Non-psychologists Should Be Limitedmentioning

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Psychology curricula for non-psychologists? A framework recommended by the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations' Board of Educational Affairs

Dutke

Bakker

Sokolová³

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Psychology Learning & Teaching

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This paper argues that teaching psychology for non-psychologists influences psychology's public image and the basis of collaboration between psychologists and non-psychologists. Therefore, designing psychology curricula for non-psychology students and professionals is an important task of psychology departments that deserves attention. For guiding the design process, we propose considering five criteria. Curricula for non-psychologists should be (a) specific to the profession of the target group, (b) specific to the needs and (c) work processes of the target group and (d) limited to the professional field of the target group. Although psychology curricula for non-psychology students need to be limited regarding its breadth, they should (e) maintain the depth and multi-perspectivity required for understanding psychological phenomena. Discussing these criteria should help raise awareness for the role of teaching psychology to students of academic disciplines and professions other than psychology.

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Training non‐psychologists in the treatment of sexual dysfunction with special reference to the training of marriage guidance counsellors

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Thirty years of psychosexual nursing

Thirty years of psychosexual nursing

Sparing the doctor’s blushes: the use of sexually explicit films for the purpose of Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) in the training of medical practitioners in Britain during the 1970s

Psychology curricula for non-psychologists? A framework recommended by the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations' Board of Educational Affairs

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