These guidelines are drawn from the clinical experience of working in a busy psychosexual clinic at 56 Dean Street of Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with patients who present with the goal of achieving sober sex. The sexuality of the caseload where the references are made upon is mainly men having sex with men (MSM). There has been a significant increase in presentations around Sober Sex within psychosexual clinics recently, thus the need to draw some initial guidelines.
The guidelines include: definitions on ChemSex and Sober Sex, therapeutic contracts, assessments, a list of difficulties around Sober Sex, useful tools and theoretical models to consider as well as ideas for good use of supervision and list of resources/references.
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