[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Linda
> Yes i think its a good idea. One of the OT's i work with did hers on
> sexuality as a PADL and how we dont address the issue as OT's

We don't? Duh - then I sure am in deep trouble:-)
(Or more likely - we live in different parts of the world!)

susanne, denmark
- where it *is* the role of OTs to address sexual needs

PS to Linda - try searching the archives of this group - we did discuss 
sexuality and OT before. The "plissit" model, for example, and also some 
cases.


>> Message Received: Jan 18 2006, 11:50 AM
>> From: "Linda Hicks"
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [OTlist] literature review
>>
>> I am sending this out into the ether in the hope that some of you
>> great OTs out there can help me! This is the question--Is it the
>> role of OTs to address the sexual needs of older disabled people and
>> their carers? This is the beginning of the formulation of a research
>> question.
>> Do you think it is in the domain of OT to address sexuality? Are we,
>> as people who profess to practice holistically, viewing the person
>> as an integrated whole missing out a great chunk of who they are if
>> we do not acknowledge sexual needs. For this purpose I am defining
>> sexual needs to include all things intimate not merely the act of
>> sex. If you have any views or can point me in the direction of
>> someone who has please respond.
>> Linda


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