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Clinical practice in portuguese sexology
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Few studies explore the clinicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding sexuality, despite
their role in the sexual-health socialization process. This study focuses on Portuguese sexologists engaged
in clinical practice. It aims to characterize sexologists’ sex education and training and their clinical
practices, including diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. This research followed the methodology
of an European survey on sexology as a profession (Euro-Sexo). From the 91 respondents who
completed questionnaires, 51 (56%) were active in clinical practice. Results indicate that the Portuguese
clinical sexologist is significantly older, predominantly male, has had training in sexology,
performs more scientific research, and is more engaged in teaching activities when compared to nonclinical
working sexologists. This article describes the main sexual problems presented by patients to
Portuguese clinical sexologists and highlights differences in the professional groups and approaches
toward treating these problems by medical doctors and nonmedical professionals. Results reinforce
the idea that there are intra-European differences in the educational background of sexologists and
reveal important variations in Portuguese sexologists’ education, training, and clinical practice. The
representations and practices of the sexologists in Portugal, as in other European countries, are embedded
in cultural scenarios and sexual cultures, with implications for the clinical practice.
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Journal Of Sex & Marital Therapy, 43(8), 760–773, 2017
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Taylor & Francis