Course Unit Week 2
Course Unit Week 2
Course Unit Week 2
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Human Sexuality
Adele Pilliteri, JoAnne Silbert-Flagg. (2018). Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the
Childbearing and Childrearing Family. (8 th Ed.).
Ricci, Susan Scott Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing (4th Ed.)
Sexual Orientation: The direction of one’s romantic and sexual attraction—to either the opposite, the
same, or both sexes. Includes heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual orientations.
Gender identity is one’s internal sense of being either male or female, usually but not always the same
as one’s biological sex.
Sexuality - is about your sexual feelings, thoughts, attractions and behaviors towards other people.
You can find other people physically, sexually or emotionally attractive, and all those things are
a part of your sexuality.
The development of an adolescent occurs not in isolation, rather in the background of the family,
society in a defined culture, which significantly influences the adolescent sexuality. Society's attitude and
cultural perception of sexuality largely have an influence on the families in which an adolescent nurtures and
his or her sexuality cherishes ( Kumar Kar, 2015).
Puberty is an important landmark of sexuality development that occurs in the adolescence. The myriad
of changes that occurs in adolescents puts them under enormous stress, which may have adverse physical, as
well as psychological consequences.
1. Base on the article about understanding normal development of adolescent sexuality, make a reaction
paper about what influences adolescent sexuality.
2. What is the role of your family with regards to your understanding about sexuality, sexual identity and
sexual orientation?
Textbook:
Pilliteri, Silbert-Flagg. (2018). Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing and
Childrearing Family. (8 th Ed.) Wolters Kluwer
Devakumar (2019). Oxford Textbook of Global Health of Women, Newborns, Children, and Adolescents.
PB Publishing.
Murray (2019). Foundations of Maternal-Newborn and Women’s Health Nursing, 7th edition. Elsevier.
Flagg (2018). Maternal and Child Health Nursing: Care of the Childbearing and Chilrearing Family.
Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer. Audrey Berman, Shirlee J. Snyder, Geralyn Frandsen. (n.d.). Fundamentals of Nursing
by Kozier and Erbs (10th ed.).
Rosalinda Parado Salustiano. (2009). Dr. RPS Maternal & Newborn Care: A Comprehensive Review
Guide and Source Book for Teaching and Learning. C & E Publishing, Inc.