Name of Model
The Sexual Tipping Point® model.
Synonyms
Biopsychosocial; Dual control; Variable Control; Variable Switch
Introduction
The Sexual Tipping Point® (STP) The STP is one of a number of models previously labeled “Dual Control,” but it should instead be conceived of as a “Variable Switch” model. The reasons for this theoretical recapitulation reflect advances in our biological, psychosocial, and technological knowledge about the human body (Perelman 2018a). The STP model with its emphasis on the role of biomedical-psychosocial and cultural factors determining sexual response has become one of primary lens that expert sex therapists and a progressively greater number of sexual medicine specialists use to understand sexual function and dysfunction. Increasingly, almost all mental health professionals support these types of models ((Bancroft et al. 2009; Kaplan 1995; Perelman 2009), and are “… considered the gold standard because … sexual dysfunctions involve a complex interplay...
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Perelman, M.A. (2019). Sexual Tipping Point Model in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_709
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