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Fact, Fear & Feeling:
The Hard Conversations - Shame, Ethics, STIs & Contraception

This webinar equips mental health professionals with the knowledge and therapeutic skills needed to navigate sensitive conversations about sexual health. Participants will explore how shame, fear, and stigma shape client experiences and learn practical strategies for discussing STIs, contraception, and related ethical concerns with clarity and compassion.

Part One offers a focused overview of common STIs, essential points for diagnosis and treatment, and emerging options such as PrEP. The session highlights how to reduce shame and foster open dialogue, supported by ethical considerations and case-based discussion.

Part Two provides a concise yet comprehensive look at contraceptive options—long-acting, short-acting, and barrier methods—along with key clinical considerations such as adolescence, STI risk, and conditions like hyperandrogenism/PCOS. Ethical dilemmas and vignettes help clinicians apply concepts to real-world scenarios.

By integrating medical information with therapeutic techniques, this webinar prepares clinicians to engage clients in sensitive sexual health conversations with confidence, empathy, and ethical grounding.

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Fact, Fear & Feeling:
The Hard Conversations - Shame, Ethics, STIs & Contraception

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Presenter: Dr. Laura Robin Zell

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Course Length: 3 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. Help participants identify how shame, fear, and stigma influence client disclosure and decision making in sexual health conversations, and apply therapeutic approaches that support openness and emotional safety
  2. Strengthen clinicians’ understanding of common STIs, essential diagnostic and treatment points, and emerging prevention options such as PrEP, and integrate this knowledge into client discussions in a clinically appropriate way.
  3. Enhance participants’ ability to explain contraceptive options, including long-acting, short-acting, and barrier methods, while incorporating key considerations related to adolescence, STI risk, and conditions such as hyperandrogenism/PCOS.
  4. Support clinicians in applying ethical principles and case-based reasoning to real-world scenarios involving STIs, contraception, and sexual health decisions, promoting informed and compassionate client care.

This workshop Offers 3 Continuing Education Credits
This webinar is recorded and will not grant live credits.

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This webinar equips mental health professionals with the knowledge and therapeutic skills needed to navigate sensitive conversations about sexual health. Participants will explore how shame, fear, and stigma shape client experiences and learn practical strategies for discussing STIs, contraception, and related ethical concerns with clarity and compassion.

Part One offers a focused overview of common STIs, essential points for diagnosis and treatment, and emerging options such as PrEP. The session highlights how to reduce shame and foster open dialogue, supported by ethical considerations and case-based discussion.

Part Two provides a concise yet comprehensive look at contraceptive options—long-acting, short-acting, and barrier methods—along with key clinical considerations such as adolescence, STI risk, and conditions like hyperandrogenism/PCOS. Ethical dilemmas and vignettes help clinicians apply concepts to real-world scenarios.

By integrating medical information with therapeutic techniques, this webinar prepares clinicians to engage clients in sensitive sexual health conversations with confidence, empathy, and ethical grounding.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Help participants identify how shame, fear, and stigma influence client disclosure and decision making in sexual health conversations, and apply therapeutic approaches that support openness and emotional safety
  2. Strengthen clinicians’ understanding of common STIs, essential diagnostic and treatment points, and emerging prevention options such as PrEP, and integrate this knowledge into client discussions in a clinically appropriate way.
  3. Enhance participants’ ability to explain contraceptive options, including long-acting, short-acting, and barrier methods, while incorporating key considerations related to adolescence, STI risk, and conditions such as hyperandrogenism/PCOS.
  4. Support clinicians in applying ethical principles and case-based reasoning to real-world scenarios involving STIs, contraception, and sexual health decisions, promoting informed and compassionate client care.

Agenda:

1.5 Hours

STIs and Shame 

1.5 Hours

Lecture about Contraception

This presentation is open to:
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: beginner
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification. Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling. The grievance policy for trainings provided by the NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here Satisfactory Completion Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire workshop, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (If this is a pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% to receive a certificate.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion by clicking here.
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
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