**This course will provide the participant with 1 General Learning Type BACB® CEU**
Description of Learning Type CE Event: Sex, drugs, and…well, no, this is not a very “rock and roll” presentation, but it is highly informative! Ever wonder about the potential impacts of antidepressants on your or your client’s sexual functioning? Perhaps you like to have a drink or take a toke before a sexual encounter, or know of people who do -- clients or otherwise? Ever wonder why it is that people pair substances with sex or why we need to rule out medical factors when a client says they just want to have better sex? Regardless of your motivation for taking this course, in taking it, you’ll learn about our duty and scope as behavior analysts in regard to ruling out medical factors, the impacts of SSRIs on physiological elements impacting respondent behaviors, the effects of alcohol and illicit substances -- and which MOs these are catering to. Pull up a chair and prepare for an hour of REALLY unique content!
About the Instructors: Nicholas Maio-Aether owns Empowered: A Center for Sexuality in St Louis, where he and his occasional teams of partnered Universities' students work to assist humans with and without disabilities achieve sexual access, sexual freedom, gender affirmation, and self-control of compulsive behaviors. Nicholas works throughout the US training BCBAs/Behavior Analysts so persons in Individualized Supportive Living (ISL) programs gain access to applicable and generalizable comprehensive sex ed and sexual opportunities. Nicholas provides Sexual Behavior Analysis, and has assisted polycules, kinksters, gay couples, trans and nonbinary humans, among others, on their journeys. Trained by GLSEN in 2003, Nicholas started Gay-Straight Alliances across Alaska while in high school, and provided them sex ed materials and trainings. Nicholas spent five years managing Hustler Hollywood in St Louis before moving into Behavior Analysis, and joined AASECT, where he currently sits on two committees. He then completed a Sex Therapy practicum under Linda Weiner, LMSW, CSTS, in 2019 before getting a second Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy, and meeting those hour requirements under Angela Skurtu, LMFT, CST, along with his LGBTQIA+ Family Systems Specialist certificate in 2021.
Target Audience: Any Behavior Analyst working with perceived sexual dysfunctions (i.e., acting as a behavior-analytic alternative to traditional Sex Therapy) -- or anyone seeking to understand better the impacts of medicines (including illicit substances) on sexual functioning.
Learning Objectives for Participants:
- Objective 1: Review elements of the BACB® (2020) Ethics Code relevant to remaining in-scope while also addressing medical factors and will discern how to apply the code toward instances where clients have expressed sexual dysfunctions.
- Objective 2: Utilize an ethical and conceptually systematic framework by which behavior analysts can begin recognizing the potential relevant medical factors that may impact sexual functioning.
- Objective 3: Develop a repertoire of relational frames connecting client statements surrounding dysfunction to potential medical factors so a medical professional can check these before moving forward in a behavioral modality.
To earn credit, you will be required to watch all video portions and pass a quiz about it with a score of 80% or higher. You can retake the quiz as many times as needed, but you may not receive exactly the same questions each time.
Course Includes
- 4 Lessons
- 3 Quizzes
