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However, patients must understand that there is no need for concern or shyness as it relates to a counselor that is involved with sexual issues because openness and honesty is a prerequisite for getting complete and effective treatment. This is not to say that the terminology and tactics should be too casual or profane, but there should not be any limitation in what is covered and patients should not be made to feel gun-shy or otherwise inhibited about being honest.
Indeed, the author of this report was very careful to moderate the tone of the topic the author was surprised about because while the topics involved are usually not complicated, feelings like regret, shyness and antipathy can make the process complicated and hard to extricate one's self from. However, it is the role of a good counselor to counteract that and open the lines of communication so as to ascertain what is really going on.
The other major thing learned from this book is that males and females are indeed very different as it relates to treatment options and tactics and it's not just related to physiology and traditional gender roles. That being said, gender identity and physical gender are not the same thing and this is manifested in a litany of ways throughout mainstream society...
In short, the author has learned that a template approach, even with men and women in general, is less than wise and each patient needs to be treated on an ad hoc basis rather than the same broad-based approach based on gender, race, etc. Obviously, there will be certain trends and most people will align with those trends, but it should never be assumed to be the case until proven otherwise.
Conclusion
In closing, there are a lot of misconceptions and static that counselors have to sort through. This is true in a clinical setting but the same is also true with broader culture. The two texts make clear that keeping informed and up-to-date is vital and so is keeping an open mind about each person being treated rather than typecasting people or otherwise assuming what is really going on and why before any verification or assessments have been made. These two texts make it clear that the mark of any good counselor is diligence, exquisite attention to detail and an unbiased approach that does not assign any broad assumptions (or even specific ones) based on race, gender ethnicity, age or other attribute to which an assumption or stereotype could be assigned.
These issues are highly politically complex, and the author makes it clear in this chapter that these issues are no less psychologically complex for the individuals that must make choices regarding them. The ability for these issues, especially that of abortion, to polarize society is quite large, and individual values and sentiments are often lost in the larger picture, it seems. Like other sexual values, the author attempts to make
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