Cultural and Religious Influences on Sexual Health Beliefs
A graduate-level continuing education course examining how culture, religion, and spirituality shape sexual health beliefs, values, and behaviors, and how clinicians can integrate cultural humility into sexual health counseling. Counselors will explore cross-cultural frameworks of sexuality, the influence of religious and spiritual traditions on sexual values, and evidence-based strategies for delivering culturally responsive, ethically grounded care across diverse and intersecting identities.
2
CE Hours
What you'll learn
- Describe at least three cross-cultural frameworks for understanding sexuality and explain how cultural context shapes the meaning of sexual health.
- Analyze how religious and spiritual traditions influence clients' sexual values, decision-making, and help-seeking behavior.
- Apply principles of cultural humility and the cultural formulation interview to sexual health counseling encounters.
- Identify the impact of intersectionality on clients' sexual health experiences across race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.
- Demonstrate ethically grounded, culturally responsive interventions that balance respect for client values with clinical and professional obligations.
Approval & credit
CounselorReady is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP #7760). This course awards 2 NBCC-approved CE hours; a certificate is issued on completion. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CounselorReady is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.