Gender, Intimacy, and Sexuality

Catalog description

This course prepares students to examine sexual dysfunctions, sexual disorders, and paraphilic disorders. Through the framework of systemic models, they will learn to assess and treat a range of sexual functioning and behavior, from optimal to problematic. Students will explore their own psychosexual development, implicit biases and values when working with diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles. The intersectionality of sexual issues related to sexual orientation and/or gender identity, health/medical factors that may influence sexuality intimacy skills, interpersonal relationships, and family dynamics will also be examined.