Clinical Register: Professional Language in Sexual Health and Care
Clinical register is the formal, precise, and neutral style of language used in healthcare to describe anatomy, symptoms, sexual health, behavior, and medical conditions.
Clinical register is the formal, precise, and neutral style of language used in healthcare to describe anatomy, symptoms, sexual health, behavior, and medical conditions.
Sexual health advocacy promotes accurate information, respectful healthcare, prevention, treatment, confidentiality, and equal access to services that support sexual well-being.
The safe sex movement promotes practical ways to reduce STI, HIV, and unintended pregnancy risks through barriers, testing, contraception, vaccination, education, and informed choices.
The right to information supports access to accurate, understandable knowledge needed for informed choices about sexuality, healthcare, reproduction, consent, and personal rights.
Communication accommodation adjusts how information is shared so people with different communication needs can understand, respond, and participate in decisions.
Supported decision-making helps people understand information, consider options, communicate preferences, and make their own choices with appropriate assistance.
Intellectual disability and sexuality explores consent, relationships, sexual health, identity, accessible education, safeguarding, and sexual autonomy.
Autism and sexuality explores how autism may interact with attraction, relationships, consent, sensory needs, identity, communication, and sexual health.
Neurodiversity recognizes natural differences in how brains develop and function and can influence communication, sensory experience, relationships, identity, and sexual health.
Disability and sexuality explores how disability can interact with desire, intimacy, relationships, sexual function, identity, consent, and access to sexual healthcare.