title: [Sex counseling in clinico-psychologic practice].
abstract: The Hamburg sexual counseling unit has been working since 1979 as a model project of the Federal Ministry of Youth, Family and Health. The therapeutic work done by the unit is based on the concept originally worked out by Master and Johnson, which was modified at the Department of Sex Research at Hamburg University in such a manner that it is both helpful and feasible as a treatment pattern for patients coming from all social classes. Basing on sexual symptoms, a problem definition is worked out which aims at underlining the subjective importance for the patient of the symptom concerned. The important factor is the ratio of stabilizing and destabilizing elements of a disturbance, in other words, the question as to the function of the sexual disturbance in the psychic or partnership balance either in the sense of rejecting desires for change or of reinforcing the "healthy" components of the symptom in the sense of prompting a motivation for change. In this regard, therapy is considered as one of many possibilities of effecting a change. Particularly successful has been the employment of couple therapy and group therapy for couples and for women.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009948:Orgasm; D012736:Sex Education; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Sexualberatung in der klinisch-psychologischen Praxis.