You and Me: An Educational Programme About Sex and Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury
The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit has produced a Sex Education Programme for people with traumatic brain injury. The new 2nd edition is now available.
What Does the Programme Contain?
- 15 Modules providing comprehensive coverage of the sexuality issues faced by people with traumatic brain injury.
- Over 100 worksheets and information sheets for participants.
- A variety of consumer stories and experiences.
- An extensive introduction for facilitators outlining how to run a sex education programme, how to tailor make a programme to meet the specific needs and interests of participants and a programme planning questionnaire.
- Section by section instructions for facilitators and a range of different learning activities.
- Information for facilitators about other relevant sex education resources and references to key articles.
- Sexuality resources list of relevant agencies and websites for Australia and Canada
What Issues do the 15 Modules Address?
The modules in the sex education programme are:
- An overview of sexuality after traumatic brain injury
- How to talk about sexuality
- No sex
- Sexual rights
- Self pleasuring
- Meeting people
- Protective behaviours
- Sexuality in established relationships
- Changes in Sexual Functioning
- Sexuality and physical disabilitie
- Sex workers
- Sexual responsibility
- Safer Sex
- Contraception and pregnancy
Who is the Target Group for this Programme?
The primary target group for this programme is men and women who sustained a traumatic brain injury after the age of 16 years.
The programme has material relevant to people at all times post-injury, from the initial months of recovery through to many years post-injury
Some sections of the programme are also relevant for partners and family members
Who Can Run the Programme?
Multi-disciplinary staff, experienced in working with people who have had traumatic brain injury who are located in:
- Rehabilitation Services
- Counselling Services
- Private Practice
- Respite Services
- Community Brain Injury Programmes
- Accomodation Support Services
- Employment Agencies
Cost
- $150 AUD
You and Me: Sex and Sexuality After Traumatic Brain Injury
This 40 page booklet is written as an information resource about sexuality issues after traumatic brain injury. It contains:
- Consumer stories
- Information
- Strategies and tips
- Cartoons
in a varied format to make it interesting and readable for people with traumatic brain injury
The booklet addresses sexuality issues at all times after the injury, from the acute stages of rehabilitation through to long term adaptation.
Topics include:
- an overview of changes to sexuality after traumatic brain injury
- when sexual relations can be resumed after the injury
- sexual rights and responsibilities
- getting a right perspective on sexuality
- people in established relationships
- sexual problems
- self-pleasuring
- safer sex
- contraception
- pregnancy
- what to do if sexually assaulted
The booklet can be distributed generally to people with traumatic brain injury as an information resource, but is also designed as a companion booklet for people doing the sex education programme
Cost:
AU$5 per bookelt