Session One
Exercise 1: Read
Exercise 2: Submit – 15 points
Assignment #1: Submit Reflection Paper
Exercise 3: Post
Exercise 4: Reflect, Post, Respond
Session Two
Exercise 1: Read, Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2: Read, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #2: Response paper - SAST, Cyber-SAST, G-SAST
Exercise 3: Read, Post, Respond – 10 points
Exercise 4: Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #3: Answers to Key Learning Guide questions
Session Three
Exercise 1: Read, Submit – 20 points
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2: Read, Post, Respond – 15 points
Exercise 3: Read, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #2: Reflection paper on all SAST’s
Session Four
Exercise 1: Read, Submit -15 points
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions.
Exercise 2: Post, Respond – 15 points
Exercise 3: Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #2: Carnes Sexual Addiction Cycle
Exercise 4: Post, respond – 15 points
Exercise 5: Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #3: Sexual Addiction Case consequences
Session Five
Exercise 1: Video, Write, Post, Respond – 15 points
Exercise 2: Research, Report, Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #1: Report on Sexually Criminal Behaviors
Exercise 3: Research, Post, Respond, Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #2: Agency sample policy
Exercise 4: Research, Post, Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #3: Summary on registered sex offenders
Exercise 5: Interview, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #4: Interview Summary
Session Six
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1: Read, Submit – 20 points
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2:Submit – 15 points
Exercise 3: Post, Respond – 10 points
Exercise 4: Reflect, Write, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #2: ‘Family Bio’
Exercise 5: Imagine, Write, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #3: Paper on ‘the ideal family’
Session Seven
Exercise 1: Read, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions.
Exercise 2: Write and Submit – 15 points
Exercise 3: Read, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #2: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions.
Exercise 4: Write, Post, Respond – 10 points
Exercise 5: Answer, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #3: Answers to Key Learning Guide questions
Session Eight
Exercise 1: Read, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2: Write, Submit, Post – 20 points
Submit Assignment #2: Personal Story paper
Exercise 3: Read, Answer, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #3: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 4: Write, Post, Respond – 20 points
Session Nine
Exercise 1: Read, Submit – 20 points
Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2: Research, Post, Submit – 10 points
Submit Assignment #2: Support Group Referral List
Exercise 3: Post, Respond, Submit – 15 points
Submit Assignment #3: Part 3 review in Key Learning Guide
Exercise 4: Ask, Submit
Session One
Learning Objectives for this Session:
- To introduce the student to the content and purpose of this course.
- To give the student an opportunity to become acquainted with the instructor and other students who are involved in this course.
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1:Read
Please read theSyllabus and Instructor Profile.
Exercise 2:Submit – 15 points
Read pages 7-19 in the textbook Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction.
Consider the following questions:
- When you hear that someone may have a sexual addiction, what kind of person and activities come to your mind?
- Ephesians5:8-13 says (NKJV) ‘For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spiritis in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.”’ These verses seem to say that we’re to both expose the deeds of darkness, and, to not even speak of those things which are done by them in secret. How do we verbally, and in writing, minister to the sexually addicted, abused and offending in light of these verses?
Write a 2 page reflection paper on both points above and submit it to your instructor.
Assignment #1: Submit Reflection Paper
Exercise 3:Post
For this week's Class Bulletin Board posting: Introduce yourself to the rest of the class. Be sure to include in your message:
- Your name.
- The ministry or agency with which you are affiliated.
- Your job title and duties (if applicable).
- How you found your way to the ministry or agency.
- A brief note about how you came to know Christ.
- What you hope to get out of this course.
- And, any other personal information you'd like to share.
- Finally, ask a question of the instructor about anything regarding sexual addiction ministry.
Exercise 4:Reflect, Post, Respond
Read Appendix 1: Statistics on Pornography, Sexual Addiction and Online Perpetrators
- What are your beliefs regarding addictions?
- What are the 2 or 3 most startling things you learned from reading “statistics?”
Reflect on the questions
Post your reaction to the class discussion board.
Respond to at least two other learners.
Session Two
Learning Objectives for this Session:
- To be able to describe the correlation between sexual addiction, sin, and disease
- To identify behaviors and attitudes of basic and cyber-sexual addictions
- Introduce the original Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST) and the Cyber-SAST
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1:Read, Submit– 10 points
Read Chapter1 (pp 23-27) 'Sexual Addiction and Sin’
Answer the questions from chapter 1 in your Key Learning Guide.
Submit answers to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2:Read, Submit– 15 points
Read Appendix 2: Internet Pornography Statistics
Read Appendix 3: Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST)-Original
Read Appendix 4: CYBER-SAST
- Before we identified these behaviors as sexually addictive, how did our culture, our families, our childhood friends describe some of these behaviors? The original SAST is over 20 years old.
- Based on the information in Appendix 2 write a profile describing a typical internet sex addict.
- Which questions in either of the SAST’s raised questions in you mind about someone you know? Without identifying the person, write 2-3 paragraphs briefly describing the situation.
Submit your answers to your instructor in 2 to 3 pages.
Submit Assignment #2: Response paper - SAST, Cyber-SAST, G-SAST
Exercise 3:Read, Post, Respond – 10 points
Read Appendix 5.
Sexual activities and relationships with members of one's own sex, whether casual or intimate, can be confused with signs or symptoms of sexual addiction. One the one hand, the American Psychiatric Association affirms its 1973 decision that homosexuality per se is not a diagnosable mental disorder. On the other hand, some teachings and “pastoral” practices of various faith groups, including Christian, Jewish, and Islamic ones, see homosexual behavior as a violation of their views and practices of sexuality.
How does an understanding and assessment of sexual addiction interact with these differing clinical and religious views about homosexual behavior? Is sexual addiction defined by the type of sexual act or the gender of sexual partner?
Sexual addiction is described as sexual behavior that is acted out compulsively, often with preoccupation (before and after the act), and often without regard for the consequences.
- Write your impressions of, Appendix 5 G-SAST
- Is any type of homosexual sex always sexual addiction?
- Is heterosexual sex outside of marriage (fornication) always sexual addiction?
- Is occasional masturbation, male or female, sexual addiction behavior?
- Respond to the following statement: Those supporting people struggling and recovering from sexual addiction need to ask about, and speak with specific detail concerning, sexual behaviors and attitudes.
Post your answers to the class discussion board.
Respond to at least 2 other learners.
Exercise 4:Submit– 10 points
Read Ch.2 (pp 28-35) BUILDING-BLOCK BEHAVIORS Sexual Addiction
Answer the questions in your Key Learning Guide for this chapter.
Submit answers to questions to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #3: Answers to Key Learning Guide questions
Session Three
Learning Objectives for this Session:
- Learn some basic types of sexual addiction
- Understand a spirit, soul and body model for types of sexual addiction.
- Introduce Women’s Sexual Addiction behaviors and the W-SAST.
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1:Read, Submit – 20 points
Read Chapter 3 (pp. 36 – 44)‘Types of Sexual Addiction’
Read Appendix 7 W-SAST (Women’s)
Read Appendix 8 Sexually addictive behaviors of women
Answer the questions from chapter 3 in your Key Learning Guide.
Submit answers to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning GuideQuestions
Exercise 2:Read, Post, Respond – 15 points
Read: Appendix 6: Six Types of Sexual Addiction
What are the six kinds, or foundations, of a sex addict’s motivation or drive? Identify and briefly describe how they relate to the Biblical pattern of man as spirit, soul, and body.
Post your answers for your fellow learners on the discussion board.
Respond to at least 2 other learners.
Exercise 3:Read,Submit – 15 points
Re-read all of the SAST’s; the Original, Cyber-SAST, G-SAST, W-SAST
Write a 2 to 3 page reaction paper; comment on the differences and similarities of those being screened. Submit it to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #2: Reflection paper on all SAST’s
Session Four
Learning Objectives for this Session:
- To understand and identify the characteristics of sexual addiction
- To be able to identify the observable symptoms of sexual addiction
- To be able to accurately describe the Sexual Addiction Cycle as identified by Patrick Carnes
- To be able to understand and articulate the consequences of Sexual Addiction
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1:Read, Submit-15 points
ReadChapter 4 (pp. 45 – 70).
Answer the questions from chapter 4 in your Key Learning Guide.
Submit answers to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions.
Exercise 2:Post, Respond – 15 points
Laaser compares sexual addiction with eating disorders. What are your impressions of his parallels?
Post your ideas to the discussion board.
Respond to at least 3 of your fellow learners.
Exercise 3:Submit – 10 points
Complete and submit the diagram of Carnes’ Sexual Addiction Cycle (section just before review) in your Key Learning Guide to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #2: Carnes Sexual Addiction Cycle
Exercise 4: Post, respond – 15 points
How does the Sexual addiction cycle apply to other addictions? How do other addicts pre-occupy and then ritualize in their drug use patterns?
Post your ideas to the discussion board.
Respond to at least 3 of your fellow learners.
Exercise 5:Submit – 15 points
Research on-line some of the recent high profile sexual addiction cases (Jim Bakker, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Haggard, Gordon MacDonald). Develop six paragraph-length examples of other possible consequences of theses cases not mentioned in the article. Submit them to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #3: Sexual Addiction Case consequences
Session Five
Learning Objectives for this Session:
- Learn the impact of sexual addiction on sexual offending
- Become familiar with federal and state sex offender registries
- Acquire specific knowledge about federal and state definition and descriptions of sexual crimes laws
- Become familiar with your agency’s / ministry’s national and local guidelines and policies regarding clients and staff with sexually criminal or offending histories
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1:Video, Write, Post, Respond – 15 points
View: THE VIDEO “FATAL ADDICTION.” This is the final interview, given to James Dobson of Focus on the Family, of the convicted serial rapist and killer Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was executed the next day. This video may be viewed on the internet at On the You Tube home page, type in ‘TED BUNDY INTERVIEW’. The video is also available from Focus on the Family.
Write out and post your reactions to the video to at least 3 other classmates.
Respond on-line with at least 2 paragraphs to those who post to you.
Exercise 2:Research, Report, Submit – 10 points
Internet research project: Which specific behaviors are sexually criminal behaviors?
1. Research and report on federal guidelines.
Go to This is the U.S. Department of Justice’s website. From this site you will be able to link tofederal guidelines on the different types of child maltreatment.
2. Research and report on your state’s specific legal definitions.
Find some criminal definitions and descriptions against children, adults and the elderly (i.e. battery, assault, rape, date rape, sexual harassment in the workplace, nursing-home abuse). SEE APPENDIX 10 for an outdated sample of sex crime terms and descriptions from the State of Florida. Most states have some sort of 1-2 page published summary of specific descriptions of criminal sexual activity, such as APPENDIX 10. Limit your website searching to sites ending in “.gov” or in “.org.” These websites are from government sites or from non-profit organizations who are trying to help abuse victims.
3. Submit your 1-2 page report to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #1: Report on Sexually Criminal Behaviors
Exercise 3:Research, Post, Respond, Submit – 10 points
Internet research project: What am I legally obligated to report?
Go to . This is the U.S. Department of Justice’s website. From this site you will be able to link to your state’s laws and guidelines for “mandatory reporting”of “child maltreatment.”
Based on this information, write a sample policy for your agency / ministry. Include descriptions of child maltreatment. Identify those who have a mandatory obligation by law to report child maltreatment. Include appropriate “hotline” phone #’s that are in your community.
Post this “sample policy” to the class discussion board
Respond to 2 others who post.
Submit this policy to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #2: Agency sample policy
Exercise 4:Research, Post, Submit – 10 points
Go the U.S. Department of Justice’s website Do a search of registered sex offenders in the zip codes of the following locations: The zip code of your agency/ministry; your own personal zip code; the zip code of the church you regularly attend. Using the interactive maps, locate the registered offenders/predators.
Submit a brief summary of your results to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #3: Summary on registered sex offenders
Exercise 5:Interview, Submit – 15 points
Interview the appropriate agency / ministry administrators and leadership with the following questions:
- What is the current agency/ministry policy about criminal background checks for current and potential employees?
- What is the current agency/ministry policy about criminal background checks for those admitted into our agency/ministry?
- What are the policy guidelines for serving / ministering to convicted sex offenders in our agency?
- When an admitted client in our agency/ministry discloses or confesses to some act of child abuse and neglect, what action should be taken? Are there policies and procedures in place? Is there staff training regarding this
- To whom do refer clients who have sexual offending histories?
Write a 1 page summary of the interviews and submit it to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #4: Interview Summary
Session Six
Learning Objectives for the Session:
- To recognize the unhealthy dynamics of the families sex addicts
- How understand how sex addicts cope with abuse
- Personally interact with one’s own experience with family boundaries, rules and roles.
Learning Projects for the Session:
Exercise 1:Read, Submit – 20 points
Read Ch.5 (pp 73-89) ‘Unhealthy Family Relationships’
Answer the questions in your Key Learning Guide.
Submit answers to questions to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions
Exercise 2:Submit – 15 points
Reflect upon, and write a 2 page personal case study on the “boundaries” you’ve experienced in your past and current families, workplaces and personal mentoring/discipling relationships. In light of what Mr. Lasaar says about boundaries on page 77, Were they loose?.... healthy?...too rigid?... What are some examples?
Submit to your instructor.
Exercise 3:Post, Respond – 10 points
Post to the discussion board 1 or 2 of the 5unhealthy family rules you’ve experienced in your past and/or current families and workplaces. Respond to 2-3 classmates’ posts. Give them either brief observations or further probing questions about their posts.
Exercise 4:Reflect, Write, Submit – 15 points
Of the “roles” described in pages 81-86, which ones most accurately fit you and the members of your family? Remember: we can combine roles and shift from one to another as the stresses and distresses shift.
Write a 2-page “family bio” and Submit it to the instructor.
Submit Assignment #2: ‘Family Bio’
Exercise 5: Imagine, Write, Submit – 15 points
What did you dream or wish your family could be like? When you were growing up whose family did you wish your’s was like? Write out no more than 3 pages
Submit to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #3: Paper on ‘the ideal family’
Session Seven
Learning Objectives for this Session:
- To see the types of family abuse from the addict’s experience.
- To see how the abuse contributes to sexual addiction
- To identify addict’s motivations and strategies for dealing with abuse
Learning Projects for this Session:
Exercise 1:Read, Submit – 15 points
Read Ch.6 (pp 92-108) ‘Family Abuse’
Answer the questions for chapter 6 in your Key Learning Guide.
Submit answers to your instructor.
Submit Assignment #1: Answers to Key Learning Guide Questions.
Exercise 2:Write and Submit– 15 points
The dysfunction in some, marriages, families, workplaces, churches or other relationships can have patterns that are invasive or abandoning. Write a 1-2 page paper about 3 past or current dysfunctional patterns in marriages, families, workplaces, churches or other relationships you’ve experienced.