Treating Sexual Dysfunction with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

What is this webinar about?

This introductory workshop assumes no prior knowledge of this complex and challenging area.

Many clients in psychotherapy and counselling have issues around sexual performance, confidence and communication. This workshop will provide an introductory overview of key issues in this area with a focus on psychotherapeutic approaches. In addition, the meaning of key terms in this area will be examined to help therapists understand the vocabularly of this topic.  Contemporary approaches to the ways in which therapists can support clients, either in the context of individual or couples therapy, will be examined.

Using the classification of DSM-5 the workshop will review issues including  Female orgasmic disorder, Female sexual interest/arousal disorder, Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder. It will also review Delayed ejaculation, Erectile disorder, Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder and Premature ejaculation. Finally the session will review issues associated with both males and females including Substance/medication-induced sexual dysfunction, Other specified sexual dysfunction and Unspecified sexual dysfunction.  

The major therapeutic approaches will be reviewed and an overview given of treatment programmes and approaches. 

Who is leading this webinar?

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.