Human Sexuality

Catalog description

This course covers counseling and psychotherapeutic theories and techniques of practice used by marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and art psychotherapists and studies counselors’ roles in developing cultural self-awareness and sexual identity development while promoting sexual and cultural social justice. Students learn individual and community strategies for working with and advocating for diverse populations and counselors’ roles in eliminating biases and prejudices. Other topics include analyzing normal and psychosexual dysfunction; gender identity with attention to diagnosis of sexual problems; and major approaches to sex therapy using both verbal and nonverbal modalities. This course identifies experiences of race, ethnicity, class, and spirituality in the context of sexual orientation, gender, and disability and how these experiences are incorporated into the psychotherapeutic process.