Senior Lecturer Western Sydney University Sydney, United States
Sexual wellness, crucial to individual and community well-being, is lacking in social work curricula leaving practitioners unprepared to address this critical area. Online surveys and focus groups examined Australian and Chinese student learning. Findings underscore a gap in social work education and the need for innovative sexuality education initiatives.
Learning Objectives:
List potential sexual-wellbeing skills needed by social work students
Describe a co-design research group approach to sexual health research
Identify basic principles and definitions of SRHR as well discuss resource designed to aide educators in weaving SRHR themes into their instruction.