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SEXH5415: Advanced Issues in Psychosexual Therapy
2025 unit information
This unit of study explores issues in psychosexual therapy and sexual health counselling. The unit of study will be conducted in two stages. Stage one is an online component and stage two is a compulsory intensive teaching block where students extend their skills and participate in Sexual Attitude Re-Assessment Seminar (SARS) activities. Students will undertake advanced study of counselling practise with special population groups and ethical issues relating to the provision of sexual health counselling and psychosexual therapy. Students will explore specialist topics in sexual health counselling/psychosexual therapy (e.g., sex and disability, HIV and STIs in a counselling context, sex in an ageing society). Throughout the unit of study, students will develop a critical understanding of ethical issues in the provision of sexual health counselling/psychosexual therapy through the exploration of emergent trends in the practise of sexual health counselling/psychosexual therapy. On completion of this unit, students will be able to: (i) Examine the ethical issues of using a sex surrogate in psychosexual therapy. (ii) Apply counselling processes to clients with a diagnosed sexual transmitted infection/s. (iii) Critique pre- and post-test HIV and BBV/Hep C counselling in a sexual health counselling context. (iv) Analyse the needs of long-term survivors with HIV. (v) Evaluate psychosexual supports for clients who are ageing. (vi) Evaluate psychosexual supports for clients with disabilities.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sexual Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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SEXH5403 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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SEXH5402 (or equivalent) |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. examine the ethical issues of using sex surrogates in psychosexual therapy
- LO2. apply counselling processes to clients with a diagnosed sexual transmitted infection/s
- LO3. critique pre and post-test HIV and BBV/Hepatitis C counselling in a sexual health counselling context
- LO4. analyse the needs of long-term survivors with HIV
- LO5. evaluate psychosexual supports for clients who are ageing
- LO6. evaluate psychosexual supports for clients with disabilities
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2025
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Block mode | Westmead, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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