Barry McCarthy – Restoring & Revitalizing Marital Sexuality

Description Of Restoring & Revitalizing Marital Sexuality

Positive

• Functions of Marital Sexuality
• Couple Assessment & Individual Sexual Histories
• Core Change Strategies
• Relapse Prevention Strategies & Techniques
• Sexual Poisons & Inhibitions

When sexuality becomes dysfunctional or nonexistent, the powerful role it plays effectively drains a marriage of both intimacy and satisfaction, often threatening the viability and stability of that marital bond. The purpose of this intensive seminar is to enhance your couple therapy skills by identifying strategies to confront this multi-causal, multidimensional phenomenon of low-sex, no-sex marriages. Dr. McCarthy will address cognitive, behavioral, emotional, biological, relational, and situational factors necessary to design a multidimensional assessment and intervention program. He will also discuss various factors, including health, medications, sexual secrets, and aging which impact a couple’s sexuality.

• Explain the concept of individual responsibility and being an intimate team to couples.
• Discuss the four session model of couple assessment.
• Identify strategies to help couples develop “his, her, and our” bridges to sexual desire.
• Describe relapse prevention techniques and strategies.
• Define the effect of health, medications and aging on marital sexuality.
• Describe severe, chronic problems which impact marital sexuality.

Positive Functions of Marital Sexuality

• Myths & Data
• Inhibited Sexual Desire & No-Sex Marriage
• Couple Sexual Styles
• Anxiety/Avoidance Cycle

Couple Assessment & Individual Sexual Histories

• Four Session Assessment Model
• Sensitive/Secretive Issues
• Gender in Sexual Socialization
• Sexual Dysfunction

Couple Sex Therapy

• Couple Feedback Session
• Step-by-Step Case Processing

Core Change Strategies

• Individualize Psychosexual Skill Exercises
• Build Bridges to Sexual Desire
• Exercises for Comfort, Attraction, & Trust
• Personal Responsibility/Intimate Team Model for Change

Relapse Prevention Strategies & Techniques

• Do not Treat Sexuality with Benign Neglect
• Relapse Prevention Strategies
• Positive, Realistic Expectations for Marital Sexuality
• Lapse Not Relapse

Traumatic Sexual Experiences

• Deal with Affairs
• Sexual Orientation Issues
• Intimacy Disorders
• Compulsive Sexuality & Cybersex
• Child Sexual Abuse & Incest & Rape Legacy

Health Factors, Medications & Aging

• ‘Good Enough’ Sex Model
• Healthy Sexuality over 60
• Dealing with Illness & Medication Side Effects
• Integrate Medical Interventions into Couple Sexuality
• Alcohol Abuse, Recovery & Sexuality
• Severe, Chronic Problems & Sexual Avoidance

Sexual Poisons & Inhibitions: Anger & Self-Consciousness

• Fatally Flawed Marriages & Broken Bonds
• Integrate Individual, Couple & Sexual Interventions

Value Sexuality

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About Barry McCarthy

Barry McCarthy, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board certified clinical psychologist (ABPP), certified marital and sex therapist, and a tenured professor of psychology at American University. Barry received the Masters and Johnson award for lifetime contributions to the sexuality field from the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in April, 2016. He is a Diplomate in sex therapy earning this from the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists.

As a leading expert in this field, Dr. McCarthy has presented over 350 workshops around the world, and his extensive list of publications includes over 100 professional articles, 26 book chapters, and co-authorship of 14 books, including Sex Made Simple, Therapy with Men after Sixty, Rekindling Desire (2nd edition), Sexual Awareness (5th edition), Enduring Desire, Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style, Men’s Sexual Health, Coping with Erectile Dysfunction, Getting It Right the First Time, and Coping with Premature Ejaculation.

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