Based on a curriculum that was successfully implemented and evaluated at Stepping Stone, a drug and alcohol treatment program in San Diego, Sexual Health in Recovery offers counselors a chance to understand and integrate basic sexual health principles into their work. Addiction treatment professionals and their clients will then be able to comfortably and safely address sexual issues that may impede recovery-and thus have a greater chance at successful treatment.
Key Topics:
- Assessing a client’s sex/drug-linked relapse risk
- Improving counselor confidence in talking about sexual issues
- Dealing with out-of-control sexual behavior
- Understanding how a client’s sexual attitudes and values may help or impede recovery
- Discussing a client’s sexual past when it impacts recovery
- Encouraging client’s sexual health while in recovery
- Helping clients set expectations for sexual relationships while in recovery
- Overcoming counselor ambivalence about addressing sexual issues in treatment
Cuprins
PART ONE: COUNSELOR READINESS
Chapter 1: Why Sexual Health in Recovery?
Chapter 2: What is Sexual Health in Recovery?
Chapter 3: Contemplating Sexual Health in Recovery
PART TWO: ASSESSMENT
Chapter 4: Assessing Counselor and Treatment Program Readiness
Chapter 5: Elements of Client Sex/Drug-Linked Assessment
Chapter 6: Sexual Health in Recovery Assessment
PART THREE: COUNSELING SKILLS
Chapter 7: Sexual Health in Recovery Pathway
Chapter 8: Sex Positive Drug and Alcohol Counseling
Chapter 9: Improving Counselor Confidence in Talking About Sex
Chapter 10: Sexual Health in Recovery Counseling
Despre autor
Douglas Braun-Harvey, LMFT, CGP, CST, is a sexual health author, trainer, and psychotherapist who bridges sexual and mental health and facilitates organizational change. In 2013, Doug Braun-Harvey cofounded The Harvey Institute, an international education, training, consulting, and supervision service for improving health care through integration of sexual health.