AASW Recording | Intimacy and Chronic Illness

This webinar provides an overview of strategies for social workers to engage in conversations about the impact of chronic illness on sexuality and intimate relationships. Social workers can learn skills to elicit concerns about sexual function and can provide information and interventions.

Using a strengths based focus, incorporating psychosexual assessment into clinical practice has the potential to empower people with chronic illnesses to take control of aspects of their lives that have been impacted by disability and impairment; with an aim of enhancing relationships and optimising quality of life.

This webinar was presented by the AASW NSW Branch.

Presenter

Kim Hobbs is a Clinical Specialist Social Worker in gynaecological cancer at Westmead Hospital. Building on a solid base of clinical practice, Kim has been an investigator on several clinical research projects in psycho-oncology, as part of large multidisciplinary academic-practitioner partnerships to investigate the impacts on the sexual function of people with cancer and their partners following treatment. She has co-authored research publications in peer-reviewed journals.