Course Description
Restoring & Revitalizing Marital Sexuality – Barry W McCarthy, PHD, ABPP
- Positive Functions of Marital Sexuality
- Couple Assessment & Individual Sexual Histories
- Core Change Strategies
- Relapse Prevention Strategies & Techniques
- Sexual Poisons & Inhibitions
When sexuality becomes dysfunctional or nonexistent, the powerful role it plays effectively drains a marriage of both intimacy and satisfaction, often threatening the viability and stability of that marital bond. Ā The purpose of this intensive seminar is to enhance your couple therapy skills by identifying strategies to confront this multi-causal, multidimensional phenomenon of low-sex, no-sex marriages. Ā Dr. McCarthy will address cognitive, behavioral, emotional, biological, relational, and situational factors necessary to design a multidimensional assessment and intervention program. He will also discuss various factors, including health, medications, sexual secrets, and aging which impact a couple’s sexuality.
- Explain the concept of individual responsibility and being an intimate team to couples.
- Discuss the four session model of couple assessment.
- Identify strategies to help couples develop -his, her, and our bridges to sexual desire.
- Describe relapse prevention techniques and strategies.
- Define the effect of health, medications and aging on marital sexuality.
- Describe severe, chronic problems which impact marital sexuality.
Positive Functions of Marital Sexuality
- Myths & Data
- Inhibited Sexual Desire & No-Sex Marriage
- Couple Sexual Styles
- Anxiety/Avoidance Cycle
Couple Assessment & Individual Sexual Histories
- Four Session Assessment Model
- Sensitive/Secretive Issues
- Gender in Sexual Socialization
- Sexual Dysfunction
Couple Sex Therapy
- Couple Feedback Session
- Step-by-Step Case Processing
Core Change Strategies
- Individualize Psychosexual Skill Exercises
- Build Bridges to Sexual Desire
- Exercises for Comfort, Attraction, & Trust
- Personal Responsibility/Intimate Team Model for Change
Relapse Prevention Strategies & Techniques
- Do not Treat Sexuality with Benign Neglect
- Relapse Prevention Strategies
- Positive, Realistic Expectations for Marital Sexuality
- Lapse Not Relapse
Traumatic Sexual Experiences
- Deal with Affairs
- Sexual Orientation Issues
- Intimacy Disorders
- Compulsive Sexuality & Cybersex
- Child Sexual Abuse & Incest & Rape Legacy
Health Factors, Medications & Aging
- -ĀGood Enough’ Sex Model
- Healthy Sexuality over 60
- Dealing with Illness & Medication Side Effects
- Integrate Medical Interventions into Couple Sexuality
- Alcohol Abuse, Recovery & Sexuality
- Severe, Chronic Problems & Sexual Avoidance
Sexual Poisons & Inhibitions: Anger & Self-Consciousness
- Fatally Flawed Marriages & Broken Bonds
- Integrate Individual, Couple & Sexual Interventions
Value Sexuality
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