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Direct support staff at your facility are the primary educators and role models for healthy interactions among your program participants. Staff training is therefore critical to the successful implementation of agency policy and practice in the area of client sexuality. This staff-training module provokes self-awareness and serves as a catalyst for change when needed.
Topics covered in the staff training module include:
- the right to privacy and appropriate expression of sexuality for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities
- values clarification
- overview of human sexual development and sexual health issues
- recognizing problematic and deviant sexual expression
- promoting healthy boundaries between staff and program participants
- modeling appropriate interactions
- techniques to reinforce sexual abuse avoidance
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