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Therapists' Attitudes, Knowledge, Comfort, And Willingness To Discuss Sexual Topics With Clients, Byron James Moore
Therapists' Attitudes, Knowledge, Comfort, And Willingness To Discuss Sexual Topics With Clients, Byron James Moore
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Empirical literature indicated that marriage and family therapists are not comfortable discussing sexual topics with clients. The purpose of this cross-sectional correlational study was to examine the variables that may influence or predict a therapist's willingness to discuss sexual topics with clients. The research questions focused on understanding the predictive relationship between the independent variables of therapists' (a) attitudes, (b) knowledge, (c) training, (d) supervision experience, (e) clinical experience, (f) sex, (g) age, (h) strength of religion, (i) sexual orientation, (j) practice experience, (k) practice setting, and (l) graduate specialization, and the dependent variables of therapists' (a) willingness to discuss …