On-Demand CE Training
ODL 379: Human Sexuality Across the Lifespan
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credit for an asynchronous course. Some state boards may place restrictions regarding the modality of training required for ethics credits to be awarded. If this training indicates ethics credits are available, please verify that your state allows them to be earned through an on-demand course format.
3 CREDIT HOURS APPROVED FOR:
Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 3 Clinical Continuing Education credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 3 Contact hours
Psychologists
APA – 3 CE credits
Counselors 3 Contact hours
NBCC ACEP – 3 Contact hours
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 3 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals
NAADAC – 3 Contact hours
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 3 Contact hours
Case Managers
CCMC – 3 Contact hours
Created On: 1/15/26
Target Audience:
This course is targeted for social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses and case managers.
Counselor Skill Groups:
4. Counseling Services
Overview:
This course will present human sexuality across the lifespan, because understanding sexual development from childhood through later adulthood supports a clinician’s ability to assess and intervene with concerns related to sexual health and wellbeing. As a central aspect of human experience, identity, and wellness, clinicians should understand sexuality as part of holistic work across disciplines.
This course will provide a review of physical markers of sexual development, as well as accompanying emotional and behavioral development. Gender identity and sexual orientation, two related but separate concepts, will be explained and connections between attachment and sexual development explored. The course will present up-to-date research and vocabulary around sexuality and relationships through all life phases. Participants will be encouraged to consider the ways that their own experiences of sexual development, identities, contacts, experiences, and beliefs influence their understanding of client sexuality. Case examples will encourage interrogation of biases, cultural contexts, and areas of inexperience.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the session, the participant will be able to:
- Describe development of sexuality during childhood and adolescence.
- Describe physiological and psychological development during the period of puberty.
- Identify how culture, gender, and sexual orientation affect sexual development.
- Explain how sexuality changes in young, middle, and later development.
- Identify elements of adult sexuality, including the role of relationship contexts.
Presenter:
Jessie Timmons, LCSW, Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, and Adjunct Instructor at Temple University
Jessie Timmons, LCSW, is a seasoned therapist, clinical supervisor, and teacher of social work with experience in addressing both mental illness and addictive disorders. She has been an adjunct and full-time instructor at Temple University and served for 10 years on the board of the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work (PSCSW), including one term as president. Her teaching and professional development have focused on ethical and competent clinical social work practice, social determinants of health, and effective treatment and assessment of presenting client concerns.