Training in Sexuality and Relationships: An Australian Model (original) (raw)

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This article examines some of the dominant discourses which impacted on the process of developing a curriculum for staff working with people with an intellectual disability in the area of relationships and sexuality within a medium sized Government bureaucracy providing services to people with a disability. Constructions of sexuality as being solely a biological function, sex as dangerous and sex as penetration are challenged as are some of the dominant discourses of learning.

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  1. Ageing and Disability Department, Dept. of Community Services, PO Box 111, Mt Druitt, NSW, Australia, 2770
    Jane Chivers

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  1. Jane Chivers
  2. Sue Mathieson

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Chivers, J., Mathieson, S. Training in Sexuality and Relationships: An Australian Model.Sexuality and Disability 18, 73–80 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005481913041

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