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Course Description:
Adoptees have, for many years, been pathologized instead of having their own voices taken into account. The overall expectations that behavioral and emotional adjustments within the individual would solve mental health challenges and sexual challenges and “issues” is the main narrative that has haunted the adoptee community for decades. The area of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is deeply unprioritized for adoptees all over the world. The connection between mental health and sexual health is clearly established in research and our profession, but understanding of the adoptee-specific experience is still low.

This course will provide you with important understanding based on narratives and personal stories from adoptees, described from a life perspective and from an SRHR perspective within our universal human rights framework. We will explore the intersections of adoption, attachment theory, race, and identity formation, and touch on some of the challenges in building intimate and deeper connections for this group. But also dive into the subconscious meanings that sexual and intimate experience could stand for.
 
Learning Objectives:
Describe the deeper meaning and function in different sexual and intimate experiences across the lifespan for adult adoptees.
Discuss how contemporary narrative surrounding adoptees SRHR is affecting adoptees as a group as well as the different mental health and sexual health-consequences this might have.
Demonstrate an understanding for how different types of attachment styles contribute to sexual health challenges for adult adoptees.
Demonstrate applying an intersectional analysis to support adoptees in creating awareness around their unique experience and express their own narrative and voice.
 
Instructor:
Anna Linde, MS in Sexology (she/her)
 
Credits: 2 hours (must complete evaluation and post-test to receive credit). 
 
Missouri Social Workers: 
This course has been approved for three (2) CEs by the Missouri State Committee for Social Workers.
 
AASECT: 
This program meets the requirements for the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 2 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward the AASECT Certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT Certification. For further information please contact ce@aasect.org.
CKA-B: Developmental sexuality from a bio-psycho-social perspective across the life course.
CKA-C: Socio-cultural, familial factors (e.g., ethnicity, culture, religion, spirituality, socioeconomic status, family values), in relation to sexual values and behaviors.
STT-A. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.
 
Please note that CEs will only be issued to those who complete the evaluation and post-test.
 
Grievance Policy
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