Women’s Sexuality Across the Lifespan - Psychology

Women’s Sexuality Across the Lifespan - Psychology is organized by Homestead Schools, Inc. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6 CE Units.

Course Description:
This essential book explores how women experience and express their sexuality from childhood through old age. Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, the book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural, and biological influences on the creation of individual sexual meanings? meanings central to each woman’s experience of herself as a sexual person. The author shows how these meanings are often problematic and contradictory, causing many women to feel disconnected from their bodies and form their needs and desires. Demonstrating how problematic myths and messages can be challenged, the book outlines ways that women can be empowered to create a more comfortable and self-defined sexuality throughout life.

Learning Objectives:
• Summarize basic issues regarding body image, gender identity, and sexual identity formation commonly faced by adolescent girls.
• Utilize various activities and interventions to help adolescent girls create new meanings and a sense of joy regarding their sexuality.
• Describe factors that shape and define the commitments young women make to intimate roles and relationships.
• Describe methods for dealing with midlife women’s needs, desires, and expectations in their intimate relationships.