ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: Expository Class: 14 Interactive Classroom: 10 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Areas: Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
INTERVENTION ON RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS AND SEXUAL DISFUNCTIONS
Objectives
- To train students for identification of the major problems emerging in couple relations, mainly the ones related to communication and conflict processes.
- To provide knowledge on the predicting factors for couple problems, as well as their influence on the development of love relations.
- To train students for conducting psychological assessment and functional analyses of couple problems with a relational and/or affective-sexual nature
-To train students to put into practice appropriate psychological interventions for relational and affective-sexual problems in couples
Section 1. Problems and dysfunctions in the love life: Historical revision of its conceptualization and its therapeutic approaches
Section 2. Etiology and factors linked to couple problems
Section 3. Psychological assessment and psychological intervention on couple problems and sexual-afective difficulties following the most relevant theoretical perspectives
Section 4. Other questions of interest in couple’s relationship
Basic:
Labrador, F. (2015). Intervención psicológica en terapia de pareja. Editorial Pirámide. 1ª edición digital (Ebook).
Sexton, T.L. & Lebow, J (Eds.) (2016). Handbook of Family Therapy: The Science and Practice of Working With Families and Couples. Routledge: Taylor&Francis Group.
Complementary:
Branden, N. (2000). La psicología del amor romántico. Ed. Paidós. Barcelona.
Bisotti, O. (2009). Terapia de pareja: Una mirada sistémica. Editorial Lumen. Argentina.
Cáceres, J. (1996). Manual de terapia de pareja e intervención en familias. Ed.: Fundación Universidad-empresa. Madrid.
De las Heras, J. (2003). Conflictos de pareja. Ed. Espasa Calpe, S.A. Madrid.
Díaz, J. (2003). Prevención de los conflictos de pareja. Ed. Desclée de Brouwer, S.A. Bilbao.
Friedlander, M., Escudero, V. y Heatherington, L. (2009). La alianza terapéutica. En la terapia familiar y de pareja. Ed. Paidós. Barcelona.
Green, S. y Flemons, D. (2004). Manual de terapia breve sexual. Ed: Paidós
Jones, E. y Asen, E. (2004). Terapia sistémica de pareja y depresión. Ed. Desclée de Brouwer, S.A. Bilbao.
Labrador, F. (1994). Disfunciones sexuales. Ed.: Fundación Universidad-empresa. Madrid.
Liberman, R.P., Wheeler, E.G., de Visser, L.A., Kuehnel, J.K., y Kuehnel, T. (1987). Manual de terapia de pareja. Un enfoque positivo para ayudar a las relaciones con problemas. Ed.: Desclée de Brouwer, S.A.Bilbao.
McLaren, A. (2010). Impotencia. Una historia cultural. Ed.: PUV.
Muriana, E. y Verbitz, T. (2010). Psicopatología de la vida amorosa. Ed.: Herder. Barcelona.
GENERAL/BASIC
CG1 - Acquire, develop and implement a comprehensive health concept, that includes biopsychosocial components the same, according to the guidelines set by WHO.
CG2 - Know in depth the psychological nature of the human behaviour, as well as the social and biological factors that can affect it.
CG3 - Know in depth the psychological nature of the human behaviour disorders.
CG4 - To know in deep the psychosocial factors linked to health/illness problems
CG8 - To design, develop and, if appropriate, to supervise plans and programs of psychological intervention, accordingly to the psychological assessment process and to the individual and social variables involved in each specific case.
CB10 - Make the students be able to apply their knowledge and their problem-solving capacities to new or not well-known surroundings within wider (or multi-disciplinary) contexts related to their study field.
CROSS-SECTIONAL
CT2 - To be able to use scientific bibliographic and digital sources with an international scope
CT5 - To know how to develop one's work with a perspective of quality and continuous improvement, with the self-critical capacities which are needed for a responsible professional performance
ESPECIFIC
CE1 - To know how to apply the major theories on etiology of behavioural disorders to conceptualize each specific case
CE2 - To be able to plan and develop assessment and intervention sessions, with the proposal of hypotheses generating contrastable statements
CE3 - To know how to select and to apply the assessment techniques and instruments which fit better to each case according to their characteristics and their context
CE4 - To know how to analyze and intepret results from psychological assessment processes
CE5 - To know how to choose and administer the best-fitting psychological techniques according to the involved purposes (prevention, rehabilitation, counseling, consulting).
CE6 - To know how to plan and develop a psychological intervention, setting the proper objectives, which should also be realistic according to the characteristics of both the problem and the context.
CE7 - To know how to monitor the process of psychological intervention, according to the objectives which were proposed, in order to introduce, if needed, the adequate changes for its development.
CE8 - Knowing how to provide feedback to the beneficiaries in an adequate and accurate way in order to involve them in the different phases of the psychological assessment and intervention process.
CE11 - To Adjust to the deontological obligations of the Psychology in the sanitary field, showing an ethical and professional commitment with the values of equality of opportunities, of respect to the diversity and of peaceful resolution of the conflicts.
At every week session, time will be distributed for both the presentation of the theoretical contents (expositive teaching) and the discussion/practical work on case study (seminar interactive teaching)
The expositive section of classes will include, for each topic, the introduction (specifying contents to deal with, basic readings and objectives to fulfill), and the explanation of the basic topics of the program, as well as the approaching to the questions formulated by the students. Besides this, questions or problems will be proposed in class in order to motivate and reinforce the students' interest and to promote the active involvement of students in each topic.
The interactive section will include a variety of activities, such as reflection on proposed cases or on audiovisual materials, as well as design and planning of interventions on different problems in the couple/sexual dysfunctions field. By their own nature, such activities will be developed in group, and they will involve cooperative learning techniques. A team essay will be also proposed as a voluntary activity outside the classroom. The aim of this activity is that students deepen into the applications of the subject for their profession. Note that, even if it is an optional activity, it is not a free work; its development requires orientation and supervision by professors. Students will be told to do a brief public presentation of their work, so that a discussion with the whole class can be generated, and questions and comments about it may be dealt with.
As a support for the subject, students will have access to a virtual classroom at the USC Campus Virtual (http://www.usc.es/campusvirtual/)
For grading, the knowledge acquired by students as well as the continuous evaluation of their learning will be considered. The exam will weigh as 60% in the total scoring (thus highest score being 6 points). The remaining 40% of the score will be based on the work developed in the classroom activities (25%; highest score 2,5 points) and the optional work (15%; highest 1,5 points)
This is a 3 ECTS subject, which involves 75 hours of work for the student, distributed as follows:
Attendance to expositive lectures and interactive sessions: 24 presential hours.
Non presential work: 51 hours (readings and study activities: 25 hours; preparation of seminars and reports corresponding to interactive sessions: 16 hours; development of team works: 10 hours).
The success in this subject involves the skills to understand, differentiate and relate concepts and principles. For that aim, it is recommended to benefit from all the methodological resources accessible for the students, i.e., attendance to expositive classes and daily reviewing and study of contents, as well as active involvement in interactive classes and in supplementary activities.
Paula Villar Torres
Coordinador/a- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
- Phone
- 881813920
- paula.villar [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Tuesday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Teaching Laboratory for Clinical Psychology I |
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Teaching Laboratory for Clinical Psychology I |
| 04.24.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 9 |
| 07.10.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Seminar for Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment Area |