Constructing a sex and marital therapy frame: ways to help couples deconstruct sexual problems

It has been pointed out that an integration of the fields of marital and family therapy and sex therapy is needed. This paper proposes a model for the integration of sex therapy and marital therapy. Recently, social constructionism has made its way into the marital and family therapy literature. Using social constructionist notions, the present paper proposes an alternative perspective to the traditional sex therapy models--one that incorporates a constructionist therapeutic stance utilizing the notions of sexual meaning systems and sexual scripts. In so doing, an integrated model of sex and couple therapy is presented.