Discussion – Sexuality and Gender Identity
Almost all mental health care providers find it important, and agree it is their task, to communicate about sexuality and gender identity with adolescent patients. However, in practice they seem to avoid these topics, due to a lack of awareness, time, presumed feelings of patient’s shame, and the professional’s shame. It would be advisable for professionals to initiate and enable age-appropriate conversations about these topics, especially when prescribing psychotropic medications or screening for sexual trauma. (Bungener, Post, Berends, Steensma, de Vries, & Popma, 2022)
Respond to the following in a minimum of 550 words.
To be successful in this week’s discussion, do the following:
Read the chapters and articles on sexual health and talking about sexuality and sexual dysfunction. As you read, consider the interplay between medicine, politics, and the law.
Discuss the following:
How comfortable are you performing a sexual health interview/talking about sexual health?
How comfortable are you with sexual dysfunction?
How comfortable are you with gender identity?
Refer to Kaplan & Sadock for the components of sexual history-taking and topics concerning sexual dysfunction.
Can you relate to the reasons that physicians gave for not talking to their patients about sexual health/sexual concerns in the Seitz, Ucsnik, Kottmel, Bitzer, Telekey, & Loffler-Stastka. (2020) article; why or why not?
Describe 1 or more treatments for sexual dysfunction that were new to you or that you learned something new about as presented in Kaplan & Sadock.
SCHOOL READING REFERENCE
Boland, R., Verdiun, M., & Ruiz, P. (2021). <i>Kaplan & sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry</i> (12th ed.). Wolters Kluwer Health.
Kaplan & Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, Ch. 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, and 2.
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Review Manual, Ch. 2 and 16.
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