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Severe headaches that start during or slightly after orgasm, usually in men.
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Benign Coital Cephalalgia
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Therapy that views problems as resulting from faulty learning and that focuses on specific sexual behaviors and how we feel about them. It does not focus on past events.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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The exchange of information, thoughts, ideas, or feelings
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Communication
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Therapy that focuses on the overall relationship and communication skills between two people
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Couples Therapy
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A pattern in which one partner criticizes and the other avoids, which can be particularly damaging
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Demand/Withdraw
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Painful intercourse usually caused by a physical problem.
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Dyspareunia
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A condition in which a man is totally unable to ejaculate in a woman's vagina during sexual intercourse.
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Ejaculatory Incompetence
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A sexual problem in which a man has persistent or recurrent difficulty getting and maintaining an erection
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Erectile Disorder
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"The persistent or recurrent deficiency (or absence) of sexual fantasies/thoughts, and/or desire for or receptivity to sexual activity, which causes personal distress" (Basson et al., 2000)
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Female Hypoactive Sexual Desire
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"The persistence or recurrent phobic aversion to and avoidance of sexual contact with a sexual partner, which causes personal distress" (Basson et al., 2000)
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Female Sexual Aversion Disorder
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Therapy that attempts to provide insight into the historical cause of a client's problem.
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Psychosexual Therapy
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Attributing sexual problems to organic causes and treating them with medical techniques.
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Medical Model
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An acronym for the four levels of treatment in sexual therapy: permission, limited information, specific suggestions, and intensive therapy.
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PLISSIT Model
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Therapy that focuses on the overall relationship and communication skills between two people.
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Couples Therapy
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A therapy technique used to reduce anxiety by slowly introducing elements of the anxiety producing theme.
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Systematic Desensitization
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In sexual therapy, getting in touch with one's own physical responses.
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Self-Awareness
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Exercises designed to reduce anxiety and teach mutual pleasuring through non genital touching in non demanding situations.
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Sensate Focus Exercises
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A sexual problem characterized by a persisting and pervasive absence of sexual fantasies and desire.
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Hypoactive Sexual Desire
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An extreme form of hypoactive sexual desire in which an individual's avoidance of sex becomes phobic.
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Sexual Aversion
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A fear of failure during sexual relations that can lead to erectile disorder in men and inhibited orgasm in women.
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Performance Anxiety
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Observing and evaluating one's own sexual responses. This generally causes distraction, with subsequent erectile and/or orgasm problems.
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Spectatoring
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A recurrent and persistent absence of reasonable voluntary control of ejaculation.
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Premature Ejaculation
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A condition in which a man has difficulty reaching orgasm and ejaculating in a woman's vagina.
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Male Orgasmic Disorder
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Recurrent or persistent genital pain during intercourse, usually resulting from organic factors (ex. vaginal, prostate, or bladder infections).
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Dyspareunia
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A condition in uncircumcised men in which the foreskin of the penis is too tight, causing pain during erection.
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Phimosis
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A condition in which the penis remains erect for a prolonged period of time, sometimes days.
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Priapism
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"The persistent or recurrent inability to attain or maintain sufficient sexual excitement, causing personal distress, which may be expressed as a lack of subjective excitement, or genital (lubrication/swelling) or other somatic responses" (Basson et al., 2000).
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Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
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Persistent genital arousal (HOT jambalaya) without subjective feelings of desire.
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Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome
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A persistent or recurrent delay in, or absence of, orgasm following a normal sexual excitement phase and which causes personal distress.
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Female Orgasmic Disorder
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A recurrent or persistent sexual problem in women in which pain is experienced during attempted intercourse because of involuntary spasms in the muscles surrounding the outer third of the vagina.
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Vaginismus
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Recurrent or persistent genital pain caused by sexual stimulation other than intercourse.
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Noncoital Sexual Pain Disorder
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A term reserved for people who engage in sex compulsively, with little or no emotional satisfaction. Sometimes called sexual addiction
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Hypersexuality
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This word means communication
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Intercourse
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A stimulus that follows a response and increases the probability of the response occurring again
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Positive Reinforcement
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Communicating your desires to another person by beginning sentences with "I," followed by your feelings, desires, or thoughts.
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"I" language
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Revealing one's thoughts, feelings, and emotions to another.
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Self-Disclosure
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TF? Yes or no questions should be avoided when striving for communication.
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True
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Always had the sexual problem
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Primary Sexual Problem
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Developed the sexual problem
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Secondary Sexual Problem
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Problem occurs in all situations
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Global Sexual Problems
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Problems that arise dependent on certain factors
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Situational Sexual Problems
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Studies have found that _____ of all couples in the United States will eventually experience sexual problems
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at least half
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When two people differ in their preferences for frequency and type of sex, it is best to consider the problem as the _____ problem.
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couple's
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Most sexual problems are treated with _____, developed by Masters and Johnson; psychosexual therapy; or a combination of both.
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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Sexual therapy programs generally have many things in common and follow the _____ model, and acronym for _____, _____ _____, _____ _____, and _____ _____.
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PLISSIT, permission, limited information, specific suggestions, intensive therapy
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Most therapists will take a _____ and _____ history first.
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Medical, Sexual
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For most couples, the first set of general exercises will be nondemand mutual pleasuring techniques called _____ _____ _____.
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Sensate Focus Exercises
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Many sexual problems are due to a failure to resolve conflicts in other aspects of the relationship, and thus sex therapy may also require _____ therapy.
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Couples
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Many therapists believe that the most common problem of couples seeking therapy is _____. This refers to persistent and recurrent inhibition of sexual desire.
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Hypoactive Sexual Desire
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In it's most extreme form, the avoidance of sex becomes phobic in nature and is called _____.
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Sexual Aversion
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Hypersexual individuals are distinguished by the _____ with which they engage in sex.
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Compulsiveness
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Painful intercourse, or _____, can occur in either men or women and can have a variety of causes.
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Dyspareunia
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The most common sexual problem specific to men is probably _____ which is usually defined as a recurrent and persistent absence of _____.
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Premature Ejaculation, Reasonable Voluntary Control
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Probably the most psychologically devastating male problem is _____, which can have organic and/or psychological causes.
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Erectile Disorder
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Difficulty reaching orgasm and ejaculating in a woman's vagina is called _____ and usually has a psychological cause.
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Orgasmic Disorder
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The most common psychological cause of ED is _____.
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Performance Anxiety
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Some men suffer from benign coital cephalalgia, or _____.
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Headaches after orgasm
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For many women, lack of sexual desire or subjective arousal is due to _____.
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Relationship problems
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When women experience involuntary contractions of the muscles surrounding the vaginal opening when attempting intercourse, this can result in pain, which is called _____. This is usually due to a psychological cause.
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Vaginismus
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The vast majority of women who go to sexual therapy do so because of problems ____.
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Reaching Orgasm
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_____ and _____ differences in a relationship contribute to difficulty in communication
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Stereotypical gender roles, power
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When talking about sex with your partner one of the first things you must agree on is using a comfortable _____.
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Vocabulary
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When talking about sexual differences or problems, be sure to emphasize the _____ rather than the _____ things your partner does.
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Positive, Negative
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Whenever possible, begin sentences with "I" rather than _____.
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"You"
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It is often easier to find out about your partner's sexual desires and needs if you first _____.
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Self-Disclose
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Good communication is a two way street, so it requires that you also become a good _____.
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Listener
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We also communicate non-verbally with _____, _____, _____, and _____.
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Eye contact, Facial expressions, Interpersonal distance, Touch.
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TF? Women's physiological arousal (ex. vaginal lubrication) is poorly correlated with subjective arousal.
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True
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TF? Bob wants to have sex twice a week but is in a relationship with Sue, who wants to have sex every day. In this example, it is clear that Sue is hypersexual.
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False
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TF? The most frequent sexual problem for women seeking sex therapy is difficulty to reach orgasm.
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True
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TF? Stimulation of the clitoris during intercourse should not be necessary, and a woman should be able to be orgasmic through intercourse alone.
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False
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TF? Performance anxiety can cause sexual problems in men, but not women.
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False
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TF? The American Psychiatric Association defines a premature ejaculator as any man who usually reaches orgasm with 2 minutes within beginning sexual intercourse.
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False
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TF? Most women who have difficulty reaching orgasm do not enjoy sex.
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False
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TF? In order to help their clients, most sex therapists require them to stop masturbating.
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False
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TF? Dyspareunia is usually caused by a physical problem.
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True
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TF? Many men with psychologically caused erectile problems get full erections during sensate focus exercises.
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True
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TF? Most women do not seperate sexual desire from sexual arousal.
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True
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TF? Female orgasm problems are almost always the result of insufficient physical stimulation.
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False
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TF? Low sexual desire in women is usually due to low testosterone levels.
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False
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TF? Therapists are in agreement that hypersexuality is a form of addiction similar to alcoholism.
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False
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TF? Erectile problems are inevitable as men grow older.
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False
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TF? A majority of erectile problems have a physical basis.
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True
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TF? Headaches during orgasm occur mainly in men.
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True
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TF? The sex therapy model presented in this chapter is applicable to most peoples' of the world.
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False
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The techniques therapists would use for hypoactive sexual desire are _____, _____, _____.
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Couple Therapy, Sensate Focus, Psycho-sexual or Psycho-therapy
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The techniques therapists would use for hypersexuality are _____ and _____.
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Treatment of the internal discomfort (antidepressants or stabilizing drugs), Psycho-sexual or Psychotherapy.
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The technique therapists would use for dyspareunia is _____.
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Treatment of the specific organic cause.
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The techniques therapists would use for Psychological erectile problem are _____, _____, _____, and _____.
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Couples Therapy, Sensate Focus, Tease Technique, Resume woman on top position of intercourse
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The techniques therapists would use for premature ejaculation are _____, _____, and _____.
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Sensate Focus, Squeeze Technique or Stop-Start technique, Resume woman on top position of intercourse.
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The techniques therapists would use for male orgasmic disorder are _____ and _____.
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Self-Exploration/ masturbation, Bridge maneuver.
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The technique(s) therapists would use for benign coital cephalalgia is _____.
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Relaxation techniques or medication for high blood pressure.
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The technique(s) therapists would use for vaginismus are _____ and _____.
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Sensate focus, use of dilators
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The technique(s) therapists would use for female orgasmic disorder are _____, _____, _____, and _____.
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Couples therapy, self exploration/masturbation, sensate focus, resume woman on top position of sexual intercourse
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Most women need stimulation of the ____ in order to reach orgasm even during intercourse.
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Clitoris
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Most therapists believe that the _____ position has the most erotic potential for both people during intercourse.
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Woman on top
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When a person begins to observe and evaluate his or her own sexual responses during sex, that is called _____, and it can be a cause of sexual problems
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Spectatoring
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For most women, sexual desire depends on _____.
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A good relationship
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Sensate focus exercises are _____ techniques.
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Non-demand mutual pleasuring
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In men, painful intercourse can be caused by the foreskin of the penis being too tight, a condition called ____.
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Phimosis
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If a man is totally unable to ejaculate in a woman's vagina, this is called _____.
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Ejaculatory incompetence
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Probably the most difficult sexual problem to treat successfully is _____.
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Hypoactive sexual desire
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The word intercourse means _____.
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Communication
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When communicating with another person, it is important that there be an agreement between the _____ and _____aspects of communication
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Verbal and non Verbal
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One of the best predictors of long term success in a relationship is the manner in which couples handle _____.
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Disagreements
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