[The sexual health education program in psychiatry, feedback from experience]

Soins. 2025 Jun;70(896):34-38. doi: 10.1016/j.soin.2025.04.010. Epub 2025 May 22.
[Article in French]

Abstract

People with psychiatric disorders experience more sexual difficulties than the general population, due in part to their pathology, psychotropic drugs and more frequent risk-taking behavior. Yet sexual health remains a taboo subject in psychiatry. The sexual health education program in psychiatry addresses this issue in six sessions in a comprehensive and preventive way, including romantic relationships and risk reduction. This project is helping to transform care practices by integrating sexual health into psychiatry.

Keywords: harm reduction; love relationships; prevention; prévention; psychiatrie; psychiatry; relation amoureuse; réduction des risques; santé sexuelle; sexual health.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders* / psychology
  • Psychiatry*
  • Sex Education* / organization & administration
  • Sexual Health* / education