Psychological approaches to family and couple

Teacher(s)

De Sutter Pascal; Kohut Taylor;

Language

French

Content

• Attraction, Love, Intimacy, and Communication
• Psychosexual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
• Pornonography Use
• Consensual Non-Monogamy
• intimacy
• violence
• separation / divorce
• the construction of sexual identity
• Marital and extra-marital sexuality
• The new family constellations and couple models
• Explanatory hypotheses for marital difficulties
• couple therapy
• Relationship communication and conflict management

Teaching methods

Class room teaching to present theories and knowledge

Evaluation methods

Evaluation for the components taught by Professor. T. Kohut will be composed of a two-page research proposal and a MCQ exam. The evaluation of the components taught by Professor P. de Sutter will consist of a brief exploratory pre-research and its result presented in the form of a brief article (max 3 pages). The final mark is the weighted average of Prof. T. Kohut's research proposal (5/20) the MCQ exam in January (5/10), and Professor P. de Sutter's written work (10/20).

Online resources

Course slides, readings, and information regarding assignments can be found on Moodle.

Bibliography

Bibliographie fournie au cours du quadri

Faculty or entity

ESFA