Psychology of Sexuality
Psicologia da Sexualidade
Curse 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:
- Historical-socio-anthropological aspects of sexuality.
- Psycho-sexual development.
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation and sexual minorities.
- The human sexual response.
- Sexual dysfunctions.
- Sexuality throughout the life cycle.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Bancroft J (2009) Human sexuality and its problems, 3rd ed., Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0443051616
- Hyde J & DeLamater J (2013) Understanding human sexuality, 12th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9780078035395
- Fonseca L, Soares C & Vaz JM (2003) A Sexologia – Perspectiva multidisciplinar I e II, Coimbra: Quarteto. ISBN: 989-558-015-0
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