Workforce Education and Development Group

Psychosexual services for people affected by cancer and its treatment

This course is based on the presentation by Isabel White at the 2010 COSA conference. It reflects on the place of Psychosexual Therapy in patients being treated for cancer.

Your first step is to click on the "Enroll now for FREE" button. After that you will need to press "Click here to sign up" and create a new account if you are a new user in this system.

You will be sent a few short, case-based questions every day. It will only take a few minutes each day to answer the questions.

The questions are repeated over time if you answer them incorrectly. If you correctly answer a question, it is retired and you will not receive it again. You will receive feedback and references after answering each question.

This course is a joint collaboration between the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia and the Workforce Education and Development Group at The University of Sydney.

Learning objectives for the course:

• Understand the impacts of cancer treatment on the Human Sexual Response Cycle.
• Recognise when Psychosexual Therapy may be useful to help improve treatment-induced sexual difficulties.
• Understand that Psychosexual Therapy is an integrated therapy and the variety of dimensions of sexual function that must be taken into account.