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Chapter 63 - Sexual Counseling and Basic Care for Sexual Dysfunction

from Section 7 - Sexual Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2022

By
Johannes Bitzer
Edited by
Johannes Bitzer  and
Tahir A. Mahmood
Johannes Bitzer
Affiliation:
University Women’s Hospital, Basel
Tahir A. Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
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Summary

Addressing sexual health and sexual problems of patients, needs and education, and training in patient-centered, non-judgmental communication to help patients talk about intimate issues in an open way, thus providing emotional relief, feelings of acceptance and helping patients to understand the factors which contribute to problems, and the possible solutions

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SexualityfemalemalecoupleLGBTassessmentcounselingadvicereferral pathways
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Handbook of Contraception and Sexual Reproductive Healthcare , pp. 437 - 442
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Masters, WH and Johnson, VE: Human Sexual Response, Bantam, 1981. ISBN 978–0-553–20429-2; 1st Ed. 1966.Google Scholar
Masters, WH and Johnson, VE: Human Sexual Inadequacy, Boston, Little Brown, 1970. p 218.Google Scholar
Kaplan, HS: The New Sex Therapy, New York, Brunner/Mazel, 1974.Google Scholar
Basson, R: A model of women’s sexual arousal. J Sex Marital Ther 2002;28(1):1–10.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Levin, RJ, Both, S, Georgiadis, J, et al: The physiology of female sexual function and the pathophysiology of female sexual dysfunction (Committee 13A). J Sex Med 2016; 13:733.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Parish, S and Bitzer, J, in Goldstein, I, Clayton, AH, Goldstein, A, Kim, NK, Kingsberg, A (Eds): Textbook of Female Sexual Function and Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Treatment, Oxford, England, Wiley/Blackwell, 2018. p 7–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Annon, JS: Behavioral Treatment of Sexual Problems: Brief Therapy. Oxford, England, Harper & Row; 1976.Google Scholar
American Psychiatric Association: Sexual dysfunctions. In: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed. Arlington, Virginia, APA, 2013. p 423–50.Google Scholar
Brandenburg, U, Bitzer, J: The challenge of talking about sex: The importance of patient-physician interaction. Maturitas (2009);63:124–7.Google Scholar

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