Counseling for Sexual Addiction: Course 418

Course 418 - Counseling for Sexual Addiction/Sexual Issues in Addiction (3 credits) (Basic course in overcoming sexual addiction and abuse along with issues related to HIV/AIDS and recovery.)

This course is designed as a holistic, Christ-centered introduction to a basic recognition, understanding, and response ability with clients who experience sexual addiction and its related issues of sexual abuse and sexual offending. After completing this course, students will have a basic ability to understand, work with, and implement interventions, boundaries, recovery support services and ministries for clients with sexual addiction issues.

Professor: TBA

Week One

Learning Objectives for this Session:

To introduce the student to the content and purpose of this course.

To give the student an opportunity to become acquainted with the instructor and other students who are involved in this course.

Week Two

Learning Objectives for this Session:

A To be able to describe the correlation between sexual addiction, sin, and disease

To identify behaviors and attitudes of basic and cyber-sexual addictions

Introduce the original Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST) and the Cyber-SAST

Week Three

Learning Objectives for this Session:

Learn some basic types of sexual addiction

Understand a spirit, soul and body model for types of sexual addiction.

Introduce Women’s Sexual Addiction behaviors and the W-SAST.

Week Four

Learning Objectives for this Session:

To understand and identify the characteristics of sexual addiction

To be able to identify the observable symptoms of sexual addiction

To be able to accurately describe the Sexual Addiction Cycle as identified by Patrick Carnes

To be able to understand and articulate the consequences of Sexual Addiction

Week Five

Learning Objectives for this Session:

Learn the impact of sexual addiction on sexual offending

Become familiar with federal and state sex offender registries

Acquire specific knowledge about federal and state definition and descriptions of sexual crimes laws

Become familiar with your agency’s / ministry’s national and local guidelines and policies regarding clients and staff with sexually criminal or offending histories

Week Six

Learning Objectives for this Session:

To recognize the unhealthy dynamics of the families sex addicts

How understand how sex addicts cope with abuse

Personally interact with one’s own experience with family boundaries, rules and roles.

Week Seven

Learning Objectives for this Session:

To see the types of family abuse from the addict’s experience.

To see how the abuse contributes to sexual addiction

To identify addict’s motivations and strategies for dealing with abuse

Week Eight

Learning Objectives for this Session:

To learn an overview of motivations and interventions for healing.

To identify steps for overcoming the SA life

To Confront the Sex Addict

Week Nine

Learning Objectives for this Session:

Review the components of treatment necessary for a sex addict

 

Estimated Course Materials & Tuition:

Digital Media Fee $50.00

Tuition $450.00

Required Textbooks:
To Be Announced

Total Cost of Course: (Does not include the cost of buying textbooks)

$500.00

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