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Learning Objectives
Upon completing the course you'll be able to:
- Recount a woman's sexual odyssey from childhood through puberty and
adolescence to adulthood.
- Discuss the feelings experienced by an adolescent girl during the
first sexual experience.
- Contrast the sexual feelings and experience of young adult women
with those of males.
- Describe how sexuality in adolescence and continuing into adulthood
is influenced by cultural attitudes, biological development, peer influence, sexual experience, and
relationships.
- Explain how sexual experiences are defined by choices we make in
life.
- List various choices women make in search of sexuality.
- Identify 5 experiences where being sexual could leave a lasting
scar on a woman's psyche.
- Discuss how a woman's sexuality is affected by marriage and by the
arrival of a baby.
- Describe the challenges faced by a woman to maintain and enhance
her sexuality as she ages beyond 40.
- Formulate questions that a woman should ask to explore her sexual
feelings during or after an affair, life after divorce or widowhood, after remarriage and during
periods of single hood.
- Answer questions of a woman that may help her understand her body
in the context of sexuality.
- Identify the visible parts of female genitalia and name their
functions.
- Identify various internal reproductive sexual organs and their
functions.
- Explain sexual response in terms of a triphasic model comprising of
desire, arousal, and orgasm.
- Describe the physiological changes occurring during female sexual
arousal.
- Answer questions of a client concerning sexual activity during and
after pregnancy.
- Outline measures a woman can take to lessen the effect of
premenstrual syndrome.
- Identify eight issues that a woman must consider when considering
contraception.
- Discuss various methods of contraception and evaluate their
relative effectiveness in preventing pregnancy and STDs.
- Describe the challenges of sexual activity after pregnancy taking
into account body changes.
- Explain menopausal terminology and describe the physical changes
associated with menopause.
- Discuss the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy with a
client.
- Discuss how our society and culture help or hinder a woman from
forming a good body image.
- List 4 sexual benefits to regular exercise.
- Identify 4 steps a woman can take to help her let go of negative
thoughts about her body.
- Discuss with a client how illness and disability can affect a
woman's feelings toward sex.
- Describe how a woman can overcome sexual response problems
associated with an illness.
- Respond appropriately to the sexuality issues presented by a
mentally retarded woman.
- Identify factors or sources that cause or aggravate
pain during sex.
List 10 things you can try to decrease the vulvar
discomfort and pain during sexual activity with your partner.
Describe the treatment of pelvic muscle pain
involving physical therapy, biofeedback, and Kegel exercises.
Summarize 11 of the most common STDs, listing symptoms, means of
transmission, possible complications, and available treatments.
- Identify common sexual concerns of a woman who discovers she has an
STD and describe ways of dealing with these concerns.
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Describe the impact of trauma on a woman's sexuality and discuss
ways of coping with its aftereffects.
- Predict and modify reactions to sex when a person is feeling
dissociative in sexual situations.
- Answer some common questions relating to male sexuality and dispel
myths and conceptions that are barriers to good sexual relations.
- Identify various parts of male sexual anatomy and describe their
physical and biological functions.
- Describe the male sexual response by dividing it into phases of
desire, arousal, and orgasm.
- Discuss the normal sexual changes that occur as men grow older.
- Identify and discuss various male sexual dysfunctions and methods
of dealing with them.
- Discuss two of the most common sexual conflicts-frequency and who
initiates-that arise in sexual relationships.
- Describe various positions for intercourse and their relative
advantages and disadvantages in achieving perfect coitus.
- Find answers to common questions related to overcoming sexual
difficulties.
- Outline general steps that all women should take when they have
sexual difficulties.
- Help a woman do a self-assessment of her sexual functioning when
she's concerned that something might be wrong.
- Describe three steps for overcoming distracting and negative
thoughts as a way to help overcome difficulties with sexual desire, arousal and/or orgasm.
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Quantify sexual desire by asking questions of a client.
- List medical conditions and drugs that may help decrease sexual
desire.
- Perform and direct exercises for overcoming low sexual desire.
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List medical conditions and drugs that may decrease sexual arousal.
- Perform and direct exercises to increase sexual arousal.
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Perform and direct exercises for learning to orgasm.
Evaluation of Individual Objectives
To assess the effectiveness of the course material,
we ask that you evaluate your achievement of each learning objective on a scale of A to D
(A=excellent, B=good, C=fair, D=unsatisfactory). Please indicate your responses next to each
learning objective and return it to us with your completed exam.
Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: Every Story Has a Beginning
Chapter 2: Adult Sexuality: A Lifelong Story
Chapter 3: Your Body
Chapter 4: Sexual Response
Chapter 5: Reproduction and Beyond
Chapter 6: Body Image
Chapter 7: Illness and
Disability
Chapter 8: When Sex Causes Pain
Chapter 9: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Chapter 10: Trauma
Chapter 11: Male Sexuality
Chapter 12: Taking Care of Your Sexual Relationship
Chapter 13: What To Do When Sexual Problems Arise
Chapter 14: Overcoming Low Sexual Desire
Chapter 15: Overcoming Low Sexual Arousal
Chapter 16: Overcoming Orgasm Difficulties
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