title: Psychotherapy for male sexual dysfunction: a review.
abstract: There are nine major diagnostic categories of male sexual dysfunction in the DSM-IV. Psychotherapy outcome studies focusing on these problems are reviewed. Currently, there appears to be little evidence that effective psychological interventions exist for these problems. Reasons for this include numerous methodological problems of existing research, effect sizes that are not clearly clinically significant, lack of compelling follow-up data indicating durability of treatment gains, and lack of treatment manuals that allow replication. Also, some disorders have been ignored by researchers. Guidelines for sample selection and description, assessment and diagnosis, and research design are provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno 89557, USA. wto@equinox.unr.edu
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: O'Donohue
authors.forename: D N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Swingen
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Dopke
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Regev
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*