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The Sexual Tipping Point® model.
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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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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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