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• TITLE: Intervention Strategies of Excessive Masturbation for a 19-Years Youth: Experience of Counseling Intervention

  AUTHORS: Theresia Shavega

  KEYWORDS: Masturbation, Excessive Masturbation, Intervention Strategies, Counseling

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, Vol.8 No.3, August 12, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Introduction: Excessive masturbation has for long been reported to affect youths with intervention strategies to intervene with this problem remaining unclear. This study aimed at determining the underlying factors for excessive masturbation, its effects and intervention strategies used. Methods: This was a case study design for a youth aged 19 years; affected by excessive masturbation. Data were collected through individual counseling and intervention. It involved 15 counseling sessions which were run in nine months in a three weeks interval. The sessions involved narration and exploration of the causes and effects of masturbation. Counseling intervention was built in a vicious circle. Results: Several factors, effects and intervention strategies were identified, reported and discussed in this study. Main causes were such as stories from friends and pornographic videos. Effects were multiple risk behaviors and health problems. Counseling model for individual was developed. Conclusion: The study indicates that there are multiple causes and effects of excessive masturbation. Since masturbation is secretly done, the effects are not widely known to many people. Most of these effects are long-term which affects a person psychologically, physically, socially and morally.