Recorded Webinar
Instructor: Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, CST
CEs: 2
Level: Intermediate
Target Audience: Social workers and other social service providers.
Course Delivery Method and Format: Recorded webinar, self study. All courses are hosted on SmithOnline. Login information will be emailed immediately after registration to the email address entered during registration.
System Requirements: Attendees will need access to a computer with internet and the capability to play recorded videos.
Date of original webinar: September 18, 2023
This workshop offers participants an introduction to the Sexual History Questionnaire (SHQ) created by Jassy Timberlake, LMFT, CST and Shannon Sennott, LICSW, CST which was created to have a specific focus and recentering on the experience of clients who are erotically marginalized. The SHQ is meant to be a guiding tool for clinicians to consensually begin the process of naming that which is often unspoken or unnamed for clients who are erotically marginalized. The SHQ is a structured container that allows clients to feel that they have the right and ability to lead their own journey of exploration around their intimate, sexual and gendered histories, presents and futures.
This workshop is an interactive exploration of the overlaps and intersections of socially-just therapy, radical clinical practices and erotic and sexual template awareness in the therapeutic relationship. It will acknowledge that socially-just talk therapy should inherently include an introductory level understanding of sex and gender therapy. Core concepts and principles of sex therapy will be offered and we will explore the countertransferential dilemmas that therapists come up against when introducing sex and gender theories into their practice. Case examples will be presented to illuminate strategies for integrating the foundations of sex education into daily therapy practice.
Registration Fee and Deadline:
$45 (one time registration fee of $5) | Ongoing
Learning Objectives:
- Identify three components of the Sexual History Questionnaire.
- Explain how to incorporate the components of the Sexual History Questionnaire into clinical work.
- Describe the process of taking a sexual and intimate history.
- Explain how to prepare a client/s for this assessment and experience of doing the sexual history questionnaire.
Outline:
- Introduction to socially-just sex and gender therapy
- Talking to clients about the purpose of taking a sexual history
- Sexual History Questionnaire with case examples and countertransferential dynamics
- Wrap-up and participant questions
Instructor Biography:
Shannon Sennott, a sex educator, gender justice activist, and LGBTQAI+ family therapist, earned her M.S.W. at the Smith College School for Social Work in 2008.
Sennott is the co-founder of Translate Gender, Inc. and the Center for Psychotherapy and Social Justice (CPSJ). She was clinically trained at SSW and the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society in New York City, and is an AASECT certified sex therapist. Sennott maintains a private practice at the CPSJ and utilizes a transfeminist and dialogic therapeutic approach in her work with individuals, adolescents and families. Her specialization extends to working with couples, non-monogamous relationships and groups.
Included in her practice, Sennott offers clinical supervision, clinical training, and therapeutic intensives. She has also contributed numerous articles and chapters for publication and is co-author of the new clinical guide, Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support published by Routledge Press.
To receive a CE certificate, you must complete the entirety of the recorded webinar or recorded video presentation. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. For recorded webinars and online courses, participants must complete an evaluation and a post test, noting the length of time to complete the course. Participants must earn a minimum score of 80 percent on the post test in order to earn CEs. Retesting is allowed up to five (5) times. If a passing score is not achieved, CEs will not be awarded. Links to the evaluation and post test are available in SmithOnline. Participants must also complete an attestation of completion for each fully completed course. A copy of the attestation is available in SmithOnline. It is attendee’s responsibility to contact their state licensing board/certification boards to determine eligibility to meet continuing education requirements.
Upon completing the course evaluation, successfully passing the post test and submitting the attestation, participants will be emailed their online certificate within 30 days of course completion. Participants should save and/or print the certificate upon receipt for their records. Receiving the CE certificate is contingent on submitting attestion, completion of the evaluation and passing the post test.
Continuing Education Credits and Approvals for This Course
Continuing Education (CE) credits offered vary by course. This course only offers the CE credits listed below. It is the attendees' responsibility to contact their licensing board to determine eligibility to meet continuing education requirements.
Smith College School for Social Work, #1755, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period:11/19/2021-11/19/2024 . Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.
Smith College School for Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and is therefore authorized to provide CEs as a postsecondary institution accredited by CSWE in many states. Courses offered through the School’s Program of Professional Education are awarded continuing education credits in accordance with Continuing Education Regulation 258, CMR, 31.00 in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Smith College School for Social Work is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0169.
Smith College School for Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7110. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Smith College School for Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.