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Sexuality Training, Education and Therapy in the Healthcare Environment: Taboo, Avoidance, Discomfort or Ignorance?

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Multiple sources of resistance are present in the healthcare environment to comprehensive assessment and intervention efforts in regard to sexuality. The authors survey both the diversity of needs and values presented by consumers, and encourage providers to equip themselves educationally, emotionally and ethically so that they can deliver relevant, holistic services to consumers.

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  1. VA Outpatient Clinic, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 465 Westfall Rd. , Rochester, NY, 14620, USA

    Kathleen M. Gill

  2. VA Boston Healthcare System (SCI #128), Boston University School of Medicine, 1400 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, USA

    Sigmund Hough

  3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Sigmund Hough

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Correspondence to Kathleen M. Gill.

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Gill, K.M., Hough, S. Sexuality Training, Education and Therapy in the Healthcare Environment: Taboo, Avoidance, Discomfort or Ignorance?. Sex Disabil 25, 73–76 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-007-9033-0

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