Psychology of Sexuality

Psicologia da Sexualidade

Course code:9219308

Jorge Manuel Dos Santos Cardoso

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

• Objectives: contextualise the human sexuality within the multidisciplinary perspective, highlighting Psychology role; describe the stages of the psycho-sexual development, including the gender development, sexual orientation and sexual behaviour diversity; present the several models of sexual response and its disorders; provide knowledge on the sexuality transformations throughout the lifecycle.
• Competences: recognise the multidisciplinary dimension associated with human sexuality; understand the central aspects of gender and sexual behaviour development, articulating them with the main theoretical models; understand the involved inputs on the behaviours triggering the sexual involvement, changes associated to lifecycle stage and the main sexual response disorders.

Syllabus:

1. Historical-socio-anthropological aspects of sexuality.
2. Psycho-sexual development.
3. Sex, gender, sexual orientation and sexual minorities.
4. The human sexual response.
5. Sexual dysfunctions.
6. Sexuality throughout the life cycle.

Suggested Bibliography:

• Bancroft J (2009) Human sexuality and its problems. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0443051616
• Fonseca L, Soares C & Vaz JM (2003) A Sexologia – Perspectiva multidisciplinar I e II. Coimbra: Quarteto. ISBN: 989-558-015-0
• Hertlein K, Weeks G & Gambescia N (2015) Systemic sex therapy. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-0415738248
• Hyde J & DeLamater J (2013) Understanding human sexuality. 12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9780078035395
• Levine SB, Risen CB, & Althof SE (2016) Handbook of clinical sexuality for mental health professionals. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138860261