Catholic · Emmaus course
When a Client Says "I'm Struggling": A Whole-Person Approach to Same-Sex Attraction
When a client discloses same-sex attraction, the first move matters. In this one-hour course, a Divine Mercy University faculty panel shows you how to keep the whole person in view, distinguishing the person, the attraction, and the action, so you can accompany clients with clarity and compassion.
NBCC CE · 1 clock hour
With Harvey Payne, Psy.D., Craig Steven Titus, S.T.D., Ph.D., Lisa Klewicki, MAT, Ph.D. and Matthew McWhorter
- Length
- 1 hr
- Lessons
- 1
- Level
- Intermediate
- Version
- Catholic
- Price
- Free
Help me not freeze or fumble when this comes up, and give me a way to respond that respects the person, my ethics, and my faith at the same time.
About this course
A client sits down and says, "I'm struggling with same-sex attraction." What you do in the next thirty seconds shapes everything that follows. Four DMU faculty (Payne, Titus, Klewicki, and McWhorter) model a dignity-first, whole-person approach grounded in the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person. You'll leave able to distinguish the person from the attractions they experience and the actions they freely choose, read sexuality within the story of a whole life, and treat friendship and the ordering of the emotions as clinical resources. Earn 1.0 NBCC clock hour in about an hour of self-paced study.
Who this course is for
Faith-integrating clinicians
Most of the anxiety around this topic is about the counselor's own competence and integrity, not about the client.
From the course syllabus
A client sits down and says, "I'm struggling with same-sex attraction." What happens in the next thirty seconds shapes the whole relationship. Do you reach for a fix, or do you see the person?
In this short course, four Divine Mercy University faculty (Harvey Payne, Craig Titus, Lisa Klewicki, and Matthew McWhorter) model a different way of responding. Drawing on the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person, they show how to keep the whole human being in view: beginning with the client's God-given dignity, distinguishing the person from the attractions they feel and from the actions they choose, reading sexuality inside the story of a whole life, and treating friendship and the ordering of the emotions as real clinical resources.
This is not a course about changing an attraction. It is about how to accompany a person with clarity, compassion, and confidence, so you never again feel caught off guard when this comes up in the room.
Curriculum
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Module 1
Seeing the Whole Person: A Catholic Christian Approach to Same-Sex Attraction in Clinical Practice
- 1.The Person, the Attraction, and the Action
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