Write a 3- to 5-page paper in which you do the following:

• Identify sexual issues or concerns arising in therapy that create a need for sex therapy versus marriage and family therapy.
• Compare sex therapy to marriage and family therapy.
• Describe your personal definition of healthy sexual functioning, and explain how it compares to sexual dysfunction.
• Discuss how a therapist’s comparison of sexual function and dysfunction might play a role in the success of his or her sex therapy practice.
• Discuss the importance of a not-knowing stance in terms of a client’s definition of sexual function.
  • How might a therapist best approach this concept in therapy?
• Discuss the implications of framing sex therapy around a sexual dysfunction rather than sexual function.
  • How might this be avoided?
  • What are the benefits and risks that go along with this mindset?

Use materials from the readings and additional resources, along with your own thoughts.

Format your paper per APA guidelines.

Please answer all questions

please use below reading for references you can include outside references, please cite anything all stats or anything you retrieve from another source.

required reading

Required Readings

• Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy, Introduction
• Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy, Ch. 1, 4
• Systemic Sex Therapy, Ch. 1–3
• Cacchioni, T. (2007). Heterosexuality and ‘the labour of love’: A contribution to recent debates on female sexual dysfunction. Sexualities, 10(3), 299–320.
• Conley, T. D., Moors, A. C., Matsick, J. L., Ziegler, A., & Valentine, B. A. (2011). Women, men, and the bedroom methodological and conceptual insights that narrow, reframe, and eliminate gender differences in sexuality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20(5), 296–300.
• Fisher, T. D., Moore, Z. T., & Pittenger, M. J. (2012). Sex on the brain?: An examination of frequency of sexual cognitions as a function of gender, erotophilia, and social desirability. Journal of Sex Research, 49(1), 69–77.
• Gavey, N. (2012). Beyond “empowerment”? Sexuality in a sexist world. Sex Roles, 66(11–12), 718–724.
• Greene, G. J., Fisher, K. A., Kuper, L., Andrews, R., & Mustanski, B. (2015). “Is this normal? Is this not normal? There is no set example”: Sexual health intervention preferences of LGBT youth in romantic relationships. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 12(1), 1–14.
• Henderson, P. (2014). In praise of “ordinary” sex therapy. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 29(1), 132–134.
• Khahehei, M., Doherty, M., & Tilley, P .J. M. (2015). An update on sexual function and dysfunction in women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 18(3), 423–433.
• Ogden, G. (2014). INTRODUCTION: Are we asking questions that help our clients?. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 29(1), 1–7.
• Tan, H. M., Tong, S. F., & Ho, C. C. (2012). Men’s health: sexual dysfunction, physical, and psychological health—is there a link?. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 9(3), 663–671.
• Tiefer, L. (2002). Beyond the medical model of women’s sexual problems: a campaign to resist the promotion of ‘female sexual dysfunction.’ Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 17(2), 127–135.
• Tiefer, L., Hall, M., & Tavris, C. (2002). Beyond dysfunction: A new view of women’s sexual problems. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 28, 225–232.
• Woertman, L., & van den Brink, F. (2012). Body image and female sexual functioning and behavior: A review. Journal of Sex Research, 49(2–3), 184–211.

Resources

• “Making Sex Normal” Making sex normal | Debby Herbenick | TEDxBloomington (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

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