Description
Begin Sexuality Interview and Assessment
[Based on Chapter 3 in the Transforming Sexual Narratives text].
The purpose of this assignment is to gain experience in constructing a sexuality assessment and evaluation. You will be interviewing a person you know, maintaining the anonymity, confidentiality and privacy of the person being interviewed.
Due Week 7
This assignment MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be written at graduate level English. You are encouraged to include current (5 years or less), evidence-based research to enhance the quality of your responses
Your paper should be 8-10 pages total plus a title and reference page.
Remember to protect the privacy of the interviewee by disguising any identifying information.
Important: Throughout the entire interview, let your interviewee know that they do not have to answer any questions that they are uncomfortable with.
Part One: Developmental History
Formulate a developmental history using the information below that you believe is relevant to your interviewee. Write a summary of your interviewee’s responses to the developmental history you’ve created.
Childhood: type of relations with family members; parental relationship; gender experience/identity/roles/expression; peer relations; first sexual feelings (same and/or other sex; trans or non-binary); masturbation; peer sexual play; sex education (how one learned about sex); religion/race/ethnic/class experience; messages about sex; how affection was shown; how nudity/body issues were handled; how privacy was managed; how boys and girls were treated; any unpleasant, confusing, embarrassing, or disturbing sexual/emotional experiences; medical treatments in self or family members; sexual/physical/verbal/emotional abuse or neglect; substance use.
Adolescence: peer relationships; school experience; experience of puberty; body development and image; menstruation; pregnancies or abortions; wet dreams; dating; self-esteem; masturbation (methods and fantasies); exposure to porn (including content); sexual behavior, attractions, identity (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, pansexual); gender expression/identity/role; coming-out experiences; first intercourse/sexual experiences; fantasies/dreams; how learned about sex; substance use.
Adulthood: medical history (including psychiatric treatment and psychotherapy); relationship history; sexual experiences; masturbation; porn use; fantasies; dreams; sexual problems (in self or partners); STIs; HIV status and safer sex; birth control; children (miscarriages, abortions, fertility issues); menopause; medications; substance use; occupational history; peer/family relations; coming-out experiences at home and work; online activity; kink preferences.
Societal Influences: the effects of biases based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity/role/expression, class, sexual orientation, religion, age, disabilities, and family form.
Current Sexual Functioning: current sexual functioning; areas of strength, difficulty, or concern, including any recent changes; sexual preferences; likes and dislikes about the partner and/or self; monogamy, polyamory; extra-marital sexual experiences; kink; non-sexual activities (individually and as a couple); communication about sex; intimacy and affection; love; sexual story about the present relationship; sexual goals for present relationship.
Part Two – Sexual Development
Remember to let your interviewee know that they do not have to answer any questions that they are uncomfortable with.
Ask your interview the following questions then write a summary of their responses. There is no need to include the actual questions in your summary:
What is your first memory of sexuality?
What thoughts, feelings, and sensations did you have at the time?
Did you tell anyone about the experience?
Did you have any feelings of shame, guilt or boundary violations?
Did you feel scared, disrespected, misused, blamed or hurt in relation to their sexual/emotional/body/self-integrity.
How do you think that experience affects your sexual/emotional life now?
How has it influenced your feelings about yourself and/or your sexuality?” “Or, about your partner?”
Part Three – Evaluation
Write a summative evaluation to include the following questions. There is no need to include the actual questions in your summary:
Write a summative evaluation to include the following questions. There is no need to include the actual questions in your summary:
What is being communicated by your interviewee through the maintenance of their own sexual identity or partner-related sexual problem?
2. What childhood dynamics, including how their parents were as a couple, are influencing your interviewee’s sexuality now?
3. What sexual scripts did your interviewee develop in early life?
4. How are attachment needs or fears being expressed or defended?
5. If the interview discloses a current sexual problem is the sexual problem an attempt at repairing a past wound or mastering some trauma?
Part Four – Self-Reflection
Identify any areas of the interview that made you uncomfortable. Think about the process and note any questions you were reluctant to ask? What do you think you need to do to work through this discomfort or reluctance? Please note anything else that may improve your ability to engage in dialogue with clients regarding sexuality.
Activity Outcome
Construct a sexuality assessment and evaluation.
