Development, Conjugalities and Sexual Wellbeing

Code:

PDSH06

Acronym:

DCBES

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Human Sexuality

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDSH	0	Plano de Estudos em vigor	1	-	3	14	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The student is expected to acquire the following knowledges, skills and competences: 1) discuss different questions inherent to the couples' dialectical process as a whole; 2) situate the couple's life cycle transitions (pregnancy, parenthood…) and their relationship with intimacy; 3) understand the dynamics between intimacy and sexuality; 4) frame the biological, social and cultural dimensions of sexuality within the marital life cycle; 5) know intervention techniques and strategies: 6) understand the specifities inherent to research in this domain; 7) execute a research plan taking into consideration the ethical and methodological questions of dyadic research.

Learning outcomes and competences

1. critical thinking on dyadic research and relationship theories
2. dyadic hypothesis skills
3. specific tools and techniques used in contemporary research to analyze the relationship between relationship quality and sexuality

Working method

Presencial

Program

The systemic approach and its importance to the understanding of marital relationships; the dialectic process of sexuality and its interaction with biological, psychological and contextual (distal and proximal) factors; fundamental notions and their conceptualization in different theoretical, research and intervention models within the marital/sexual system (e.g., functionality, satisfaction, interdependency, desire…); conceptualization of intimacy in an integrative model and its relationship with sexuality; normative transitions (pregnancy, parenthood, post-parental…), non-normative transitions (infertility, chronic diseases, grieving…) and sexuality; specificities in formulating research questions, collecting data, ethical considerations, statistical analyses, and discussion of findings when considering the couple as unit of analysis.

Mandatory literature

Butzer, B. & Campbell, L. ; Adult attachment, sexual satisfaction, and relationship satisfaction: A study of married couples. Personal relationships, Personal Relationships, 15 (1), 141-154, 2008
Gameiro José; Entre marido e mulher.... ISBN: 972-99110-5-7
Gurman Alan S. 340; Clinical handbook of couple therapy. ISBN: 1-57230-758-7
Schulz Marc S. 340; Strengthening couple relationships for optimal child development. ISBN: 978-1-4338-0547-9
McGoldrick Monica; The^expanding family life cycle. ISBN: 978-0-205-96806-0
Metz, Michael E., and Barry W. McCarthy; The “Good-Enough Sex” model for couple sexual satisfaction, Sexual and Relationship Therapy 22(3), 351-362, 2007

Teaching methods and learning activities

The contact hours with students will consist of lectures, with exposure of contentes recurring to both research and clinical examples and paper discussions.

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho escrito	75,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	17,00
Estudo autónomo	15,00
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Trabalho de investigação	25,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

The student must be present in 75% of the given lectures. Approval requires a minimum grade of 9 points on the work presentation component.

Calculation formula of final grade

- active participation in class 25%
- work presentation 75%

Grades are presented on a 0 to 20 scale.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Follows the general rules of FPCEUP (cf. art. 11).

Classification improvement

Follows the general rules of FPCEUP (cf. art. 11). The improvement of the final mark is possible on the written component.