Making It Work!

This section is designed to help you find ways to apply the content of this module to your everyday work. 

1. Improving Your Service. Hold meetings with staff to include this content as a unit update. Explore with staff how this content can be integrated into the current services. Identify points in history taking that lend themselves to exploring sexual responses and providing information on the range of normal responses. Ask staff to identify sexual practices in their communities or among their clientele that might involve sexual misinformation or put clients at risk of infection. Build exploration of sexual response and practices into STI and HIV prevention counseling to help clients protect themselves or prevent continued exposure to infectious organisms.
2. Tips and Educational Activities. Develop health education sessions to cover sexual responses and changes with age for clients. Identify local sexual practices that may conflict with the sexual response cycle or put individuals or couples at risk of genital trauma or infection.
3. Educational Aids. The following materials, optimized for printing, can be used in conducting staff education or client counseling:
   • Glossary of sexual practices
   • The sexual response cycle
   • Comparison of sexual response in women and men
   • Normal changes in response with aging
   • Contraception and sexual function
   • Drugs that affect sexual function and response
   • Health risks of common sexual practices

After reviewing this section, you will have completed the Sexual Response and Sexual Practices module of this minicourse. If you have not already done so, you may now review the case studies for this module.

You may wish to begin the next module, Sexual Dysfunction, or return to the course home page to begin or review a different module.

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