Sexuality Flashcards
OT interventions for sexuality
- health promotion
- remediation
- modification
model for understanding the occupational nature of sexuality and intimacy
Person: client factors, body functions and structures
Performance: skills and patterns
Occupation: ADL (sexual activity), IADL (fam planning, sex expression), social participation (intimacy), health management
Context: environmental and personal factors
sexual activity
A person’s ability to safely engage in sexual and/or intimate activities (alone or with another person). Sexual activities may include hugging, kissing, foreplay, masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, vaginal sex, and use of sexual toys or devices
Intimacy
A person’s ability to initiate and maintain close intimate relationships which includes the ability to give and receive affection needed to successfully interact in the role as intimate partner
sexual response
The body’s physical sexual response associated with sexual activity,including physiological arousal, response to erogenous zones, nipple erection, clitoral excitation, erection, vaginal lubrication, prostate release, ejaculation, and/or orgasm
sexual health
A person’s ability to develop, manage, and maintain routines for sexual health, including practicing safe sex and identifying, understanding, selecting, and using protection.