Training Overview
Do issues and questions about sexuality show up in your work, sometimes when you least expect it? Do you feel that you missed out on good sex education when you were in school or just need a good refresher and update? Are you trying to understand if it makes sense for grade school kids to choose their pronouns? Or do you work with sexually abused children and youth and wonder about the impact on their developmental journey? This 2-hour course explores the topics of sexual development, anatomy, and physiology and places them in current social contexts, and will help prepare you to better support your clients as they pass through developmental stages and face challenges along the way.
This live, virtual course is appropriate for social workers, counselors, psychologists, and other human services professionals working with children and families. The training will include didactic lecture, group discussion, and time for Q and A. The workshop is led by a sex-educator/social worker who has been working to promote sexual health and safety for decades! Dr. Rosenzweig will combine important factual material with exercises to help improve your comfort level. Participants will also receive resources they can use in their own practice.
Learning Objectives
- Describe components of sexual and reproductive anatomy and physiology and how to incorporate this information into work with children and families.
- Describe the stages of psychosexual development and family development and apply them to problem-solving with children and families.
- Integrate the concept of ‘sexual climate’ in a family or organization into their work and understand how it is critical to promote healthy sexual development and risk reduction.
Register Through IHS
This training course if free but $10 to receive continuing education credits.