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Understanding Abnormal Behavior , Eighth Edition
David Sue, Western Washington University
Derald Wing Sue, Teacher's College
Stanley Sue, University of California, Davis
Learning Objectives
Chapter 10: Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

  • Distinguish between sexual dysfunctions, paraphilias, and gender identity disorders. (p. 307)

  • Discuss the problems of defining normal sexual behavior. (pp. 308-309)

  • Indicate the contributions of Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Kaplan, and the Janus Report in the history of studying human sexuality. (p. 309-310)

  • Describe and discuss the four stages of the human sexual response cycle. (pp. 310-312)

  • Explain why homosexuality is not considered a mental disorder. (pp. 312-315)

  • Discuss the results of research on sexuality among those over age 60. (pp. 315-317)

  • Describe and differentiate sexual desire disorders in men and women, sexual arousal disorder in men and women, and male and female orgasmic disorder. Describe and discuss the causes of sexual pain disorders. (pp. 317-323)

  • Discuss the biological causes and treatments for psychosexual dysfunctions. (pp. 324-326)

  • Discuss the psychological factors that cause, and the behavioral therapy techniques used to treat, sexual dysfunctions. (pp. 326-328)

  • Define gender identity disorders and describe their symptoms. Discuss the biological, psychodynamic, and behavioral explanations for these disorders and how gender identity disorders are treated. (pp. 328-332)

  • Define paraphilias and list the three categories of these disorders. Describe and differentiate fetishism, transvestic fetishism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, frotteurism, pedophilia, sadism, and masochism. (pp. 332-339; Figure 10.8)

  • Discuss the problems of people who were childhood victims of sexual abuse. (pp. 337-338)

  • Discuss the biological, psychodynamic, and behavioral etiological theories of paraphilia and how those theories lead to different forms of treatment. (pp. 339-341)

  • Differentiate the terms sexual coercion, sexual aggression, rape, and incest. Describe the effects of rape on victims, including the acute and long-term phases of rape trauma syndrome. Discuss what is known about the cause of rape, including the three motivational types of rapists. (pp. 341-348)

  • Discuss the effects of media portrayals of sexual violence and sociocultural variables. (pp. 347-348)

  • Describe and evaluate the conventional and controversial treatments provided for incest offenders and rapists. (pp. 348-349)



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