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Sexual Tipping Point Model in Couple and Family Therapy

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The Sexual Tipping Point® model.

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Biopsychosocial; Dual control

Introduction

The Sexual Tipping Point® (STP) is one of a number of dual-control* biopsychosocial* models, which have become the primary lens that expert sex therapists and a progressively greater numbers of sexual medicine specialists use to understand sexual function and dysfunction. Increasingly, almost all mental health professionals support “dual-control” biopsychosocial-cultural models (Bancroft et al. 2009; Kaplan 1995; Perelman 2009). The Sexual Tipping Point®model provides couples and family therapists with a useful transdisciplinary approach to understanding the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of sexual disorders/dysfunctions (SD). This is important because of the high frequency that sexual issues/problems cause and/or may be the consequence of relationship strife. Many clinicians are hyperaware that such problems are multilayered and systemic but are limited in their ability to assist...

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Reproductive Medicine and Urology, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian, 70 East 77th Street, New York, NY, 10075, USA

    Michael A. Perelman

  2. MAP Education and Research Fund, New York, NY, 10075, USA

    Michael A. Perelman

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Jay Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Anthony Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern, Evanston, Illinois, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Employee Assistance Program, McLeod Health, Florence, SC, USA

    Farrah Hughes Ph.D., ABPP

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Allen Sabey Ph.D.

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Perelman, M.A. (2017). Sexual Tipping Point Model in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_709-1

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