Assignment: Sexuality at Different Life Stages

PSY/265

April 10, 2011

Assignment: Sexuality at Different Life Stages
Age, race, and a patient’s background are just three of many criteria that a therapist(s) or psychologist(s) need to address during therapy sessions. All patients will provide some personal information about themselves; this information along with information that therapists have learned while earning their degree is instrumental in helping a patient return to a healthier stage in life that is conducive to the patient's well being. In Anna’s case, successful therapy will give her mother some semblance of peace of mind. All of the therapy in the world, however, will not rid Anna’s father of his worry and nightmares about Anna’s boyfriend. Very few fathers will be at peace when their adolescent daughter(s) are dating a boy. Fathers are of the mind that there is no boy that is good enough for their daughter, nor can the boy be trusted. As the gather of two young girls, the author can attest to that.
With that being said, it is time to address Anna’s problem; or is it the problem her parents face. Anna is in love, or like many adolescent girls and boys, believes she is in love with a boy that is three years older than she is. Many, if not all adolescent boys that are older than their girlfriends, attempt to have sexual relations with them and this is due in part to pressure, and due in part to the age difference, boys normally succeed.
Pressure can be defined in many ways one way is to convince the girl that “everyone does it,” having sex is very ‘cool” and “hey, all of our friends do it.” It has been the experience of many men that remember their years of adolescence that this type of pressure works well; simply tell the girl what “cool people we will be if we have sex;
Assuming Anna’s mother and father decide to have Anna go into