Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity (case)
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Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity, 9/e examines the rich diversity found in human sexuality. More significantly, the text places an emphasis on cultivating understanding in a world of increasing diversity through personal engagement. Students are encouraged to reflect upon their own beliefs and experiences throughout the text in order to foster a more personal and impactful learning experience. The text also helps students develop their own opinions by promoting critical thinking skills, personal sexual health awareness, and responsible decision-making.
MyDeveleopmentLab is an integral part of the Rathus / Nevid / Fichner-Rathus program. Key learning applications include Video Series for Human Sexuality, “My Life, My Sexuality,” Assessment, and Personalized Study Plan.
Teaching & Learning Experience
Personalize Learning – MyDevelopmentLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance.
Improve Critical Thinking – Critical Thinking boxes are integrated into the margins. Boxes ask students to delve deeper into the material and reconsider their own opinions and ideas.
Engage Students – The newly updated "Real Students Real Questions" feature increases students’ critical thinking skills by incorporating real questions from actual college students, as posed to instructors.
Explore Research – Throughout the text, “A Closer Look” boxes provide in-depth discussions of scientific techniques and skill-building exercises such as “Breast Self-Examination,” Self-Examination of the Testes,” and “What to Do If You Suspect You Have Contracted an STD.”
Understand Sexuality – Through new and updated features like “My Life, My Sexuality,” and “A World of Diversity” the authors strengthen comprehension of the material while fostering greater reflection and understanding.
Support Instructors – The 9th edition is accompanied by a rich instructor support package, including new video embedded PowerPoints, a heavily updated Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank that are organized according to in-text Learning Objectives for ease of use, and MyDevelopmentLab with the new Human Sexuality Video Series.
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Spencer A. Rathus received his PhD from the University at Albany. He is on the faculty at The College of New Jersey. His areas of interest include psychological assessment, cognitive behavior therapy, and deviant behavior. He is the originator of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule, which has become a Citation Classic. He has authored several books, including Psychology: concepts and Connections; PSYCH, HDEV, CDEV, Essentials of Psychology, and Childhood and Adolescence: Voyages in Development. He co-authored Making the Most of College with Lois Fichner-Rathus; AIDS: What Every Student Needs To Know with Susan Boughn; and Behavior Therapy, Psychology and the Challenges of Life, Your Health and Health in the New Millennium with Jeffrey S. Nevid. His professional activities include service on the American Psychological Association Task Force on Diversity Issues at the Precollege and Undergraduate Levels of Education in Psychology, and on the Advisory Panel, American Psychological Association, Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) Task Force on Undergraduate Psychology Major Competencies. Jeffrey S. Nevid is Professor of Psychology at St. John's University in New York, where he directs the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervises doctoral students in clinical practicum work. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University at Albany and was a staff psychologist at Samaritan Hospital in Troy, New York. He later completed a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Evaluation Research at Northwestern University. He holds a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology, is a Fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology, and has served on the editorial boards of several journals and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. His publications have appeared his in such journals as Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology, Journal of Occupational Medicine, Behavior Therapy, American Journal of Community Psychology, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Teaching of Psychology, American Journal of Health Promotion, and Psychology and Psychotherapy. Dr. Nevid is also author of the book, Choices: Sex in the Age of STDs and the introductory psychology text, Psychology: Concepts and Applications, as well as several other college texts in the fields of psychology and health that he coauthored with Spencer A. Rathus. Dr. Nevid has also been involved in conducting a program of pedagogical research focusing on helping students become more effective learners. Lois Fichner-Rathus is Professor of Art in the Art Department of The College of New Jersey, where she has also chaired the Program in Gender Studies. She holds a combined undergraduate degree in fine arts and art history, an M.A. from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and a Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her areas of specialization include feminist art history and criticism, contemporary art, and modern art and architecture. She has authored several textbooks, including Understanding Art and Foundations of Art and Design. She has also published articles in professional journals and exhibited her large-format photographic prints.
In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Human Sexuality
Chapter 2: Research Methods in Human Sexuality
Chapter 3: Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 4: Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter 5: Sexual Arousal and Response
Chapter 6: Gender Identity, Gender Roles, and Gender Differences
Chapter 7: Attraction and Love—Binding Forces
Chapter 8: Relationships and Communication
Chapter 9: Sexual Behaviors and Fantasies
Chapter 10: Sexual Orientation
Chapter 11: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Chapter 12: Contraception and Abortion
Chapter 13: Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 14: Sexuality in Adulthood
Chapter 15: Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter 16: Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter 17: Atypical Sexual Variations
Chapter 18: Sexual Coercion
Chapter 19: Commercial Sex
Full Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Is Human Sexuality
Learning Objectives 2
The Science of Human Sexuality?
Sexuality and Values
Thinking Critically about Human Sexuality
Perspectives on Human Sexuality
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 2: Research Methods in Human Sexuality
Learning Objectives
A Scientific Approach to Human Sexuality
Populations and Samples: Representing the World of Diversity
Methods of Observation
Correlation
The Experimental Method
Ethics in Sex Research
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 3: Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
Learning Objectives
External Sex Organs
Internal Sex Organs
The Breasts
The Menstrual Cycle
Menstrual Problems
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 4: Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology
Learning Objectives
External Sex Organs
Internal Sex Organs
Health Problems of the Urogenital System
Male Sexual Functions
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 5: Sexual Arousal and Response
Learning Objectives
Making Sense of Sex
Aphrodisiacs: of Spanish Flies and Rhino Horns
Sexual Response and the Brain: Cerebral Sex?
Sex Hormones and Sexual Behavior
Sexual Response
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 6: Gender Identity, Gender Roles, and Gender Differences
Learning Objectives
Prenatal Sexual Differentiation
Gender Identity
Gender Roles and Stereotypes
Gender Differences
On Becoming a Man or a Woman: Gender Typing
Psychological Androgyny and the Reconstruction of Masculinity–Femininity: The More Traits, the Merrier?
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 7: Attraction and Love—Binding Forces
Learning Objectives
Physical Attractiveness: How Important Is Looking Good?
The Attraction–Similarity Hypothesis: Who Is “Right” for You?
Love: “The Morning and the Evening Star”?
Romantic Love
Contemporary Models of Love: Dare Science Intrude?
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 8: Relationships and Communication
Learning Objectives
The ABC(DE)’s of Romantic Relationships
Jealousy: Is the World a Real-Life Temptation Island?
Deterioration of Relationships
Loneliness: “All the Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From?”
Satisfaction in Relationships: Communication as Key
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 9: Sexual Behaviors and Fantasies
Learning Objectives
Sex Without a Partner
Masturbation Techniques
Partnered Sex
Sexual Intercourse: Positions and Techniques
Sexual Fantasies
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 10: Sexual Orientation
Learning Objectives
Getting Oriented toward Sexual Orientation
Perspectives on Gay Male and Lesbian Sexual Orientations
Sexual Orientation in Contemporary Society
Adjustment of Gay Males and Lesbians
Coming Out: Coming to Terms with Being Gay
Chapter Review 290
Test Your Learning
Chapter 11: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Learning Objectives
Conception: Against All Odds
Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology
Pregnancy
Prenatal Development
Childbirth
The Postpartum Period
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 12: Contraception and Abortion
Learning Objectives
Contraception
Contraception in the United States: The Political Battle
Methods of Contraception
Abortion
Perspectives on Abortion
Methods of Abortion
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 13: Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
Learning Objectives
Infancy (0 to 2 Years): The Search for the Origins of Human Sexuality
Early Childhood (3 to 8 Years)
Preadolescence (9 to 13 Years)
Sex Education
Adolescence
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 14: Sexuality in Adulthood
Learning Objectives
Being Single
Cohabitation: “Darling, Would You Be My POSSLQ?”
Marriage: Tying the Knot
Divorce: Breaking Bonds
Sex in the Later Years
Sex and Disability
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 15: Sexual Dysfunctions
Learning Objectives
Types of Sexual Dysfunctions
Origins of Sexual Dysfunctions: A Biopsychosocial Approach
Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 16: Sexually Transmitted Infections
Learning Objectives
Epidemic!
Bacterial Infections
Vaginal Infections
Viral Infections
Ectoparasitic Infestations
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 17: Atypical Sexual Variations
Learning Objectives 506
Normal versus Deviant
Sexual Behavior
The Paraphilias
Theoretical Perspectives
Treatment of Paraphilias
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 18: Sexual Coercion
Learning Objectives
Rape: The Most Intimate Crime of Violence
Types of Rape
Social Attitudes, Myths, and Cultural Factors that Encourage Rape
Psychological Characteristics of Rapists: Who Are They?
Adjustment of Rape Survivors
Childhood Sexual Abuse
Treatment of Rapists and Child Molesters
Sexual Harassment
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
Chapter 19: Commercial Sex
Learning Objectives
Prostitution
Pornography and Obscenity
Chapter Review
Test Your Learning
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.2.2013 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 276 mm |
| Gewicht | 1615 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-90946-9 / 0205909469 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-90946-9 / 9780205909469 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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