Sexual Attitude Reassessment · Reflective Exercise

The Script You Carry

You build your own sexual script from a menu, and then meet a client whose script runs opposite to yours. Which client you meet is decided by one of your own answers.

What this exercise does

Section 4 asks you to write for fifteen minutes about the messages you received about sex before you were eighteen. Most people skip it, and the ones who do it have no way to connect what they wrote to what they do in a session. This is the same question with a mechanism attached.

None of the twenty-four positions on the menu is the defective one. Every one of them produces competent clinicians and every one produces a specific blind spot.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 30 minutes

1Your sources
2Assembled
3The risk
4The client
5Afterwards
6Close

Before you begin

How this one works

You will build your own sexual script from a menu, across the six sources the chapter identifies. It is faster and less exposing than free writing, and it produces something you can look at.
Nothing you select or type leaves your browser. There is no submission, reloading discards everything, and you can copy your own record at the end.
The exercise then introduces a client whose script runs opposite to yours on one specific dimension. Which client you meet is determined by one of your own answers, so no two participants necessarily meet the same person.
None of the options is the bad one. Every script on this list produces competent clinicians and every script on this list produces a specific blind spot. The blind spot is the deliverable.

Section 4 asks you to write for fifteen minutes about the messages you received before you were eighteen. Most people skip it. This is the same question, built so that you cannot.

References

  1. Pope, K. S., Sonne, J. L., & Greene, B. (2006). What therapists don’t talk about and why: Understanding taboos that hurt us and our clients. American Psychological Association.
  2. Rønnestad, M. H., & Skovholt, T. M. (2003). The journey of the counselor and therapist: Research findings and perspectives on professional development. Journal of Career Development, 30(1), 5–44. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025173508081