Sexuality and Addiction
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Sexuality and Addiction

Making Connections, Enhancing Recovery

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Sexuality and Addiction

Making Connections, Enhancing Recovery

About this book

This book provides an understanding of how sexuality and addiction are intertwined, helping those who counsel substance abusers and individuals who have experienced negative sexual messages or experiences to improve their sexual health and enjoyment. This book presents a broad overview of sexual health issues that documents the links between sexuality and substance abuse, and describes how counselors can help individuals who have been impacted by negative sexual experiences can find a way out of the pain that leads them to addiction or back to substance abuse. Using the sexual health model as a framework for discussion, author Raven L. James, PhD, explains how sexual health and substance abuse are often connected, provides examples of real-life experiences, and identifies issues to consider in adopting healthier attitudes and sexual behaviors as well as effective methods for achieving them. Each chapter provides focused content followed by an explanation of the subject's connection to substance abuse. Tips for counselors, sample lesson plans and ideas, tangible tools to use in sexual health groups, and related resources area also included. Whether the reader is personally afflicted, a helper, or a loved one, the information in Sexuality and Addiction: Making Connections, Enhancing Recovery will provide a new perspective on how to help clients improve their sexual self-esteem, find ways to improve sexual relationships with themselves and others, and most of all, to restore hope for sexual health in recovery.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780313396359
eBook ISBN
9780313396366

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. ONE: Models of Sexual Health and Sexual Self-Esteem
  10. TWO: Sex Talk
  11. THREE: Sexual Identity for Geeks
  12. FOUR: The "Blue-Light" Special
  13. FIVE: Taking Care of Business and Safer Sex
  14. SIX: Sensitive Issues and Challenges
  15. SEVEN: Body Beautiful
  16. EIGHT: Self-Love and Dreams
  17. NINE: Good Sex!
  18. TEN: Getting to Know You
  19. ELEVEN: Oh God!
  20. TWELVE: Completing the Journey
  21. Appendix A: Sexual History Intake Questions Sensitive to Sexual Diversity
  22. Appendix B: Sexuality Comfort Self-Assessment
  23. Appendix C: Values Clarification
  24. Sources
  25. Index