1st cycle of studies in Psychology

Psychology of Sexuality

2

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