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Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Situating Sexuality in the Caribbean -- Background -- Transforming Societies Embracing Sexuality -- Youth and Sexuality -- Sexual Diversity -- The Increasing Role of Psychology -- References -- 2: Gender-Role Stereotypes and Culture in Jamaica and Barbados -- Introduction -- Gender Socialisation in the Caribbean -- The Role of the School -- Music as Cultural Voice -- Adult Stereotypes in Jamaica and Barbados -- Results of Male Versus Female Stereotypes -- Interviewing the Children -- Comparison of Adult and Child Responses -- Shaping Attitudes Through Music -- Calypso, Soca and Pop Music -- Discussion -- References -- 3: Emotional-Social Intelligence and Sexuality Among Jamaican Adolescents -- Introduction -- Emotional-Social Intelligence -- The Connection between ESI and Sexuality -- Biological Influences on Adolescent Sexual Practices -- Social Influences on Adolescent Sexual Practices: The Jamaican Context -- Family Influence -- Peer Influence -- Cultural Influences -- Economic Influences -- Emotional/Psychological Influences on Adolescent Sexual Practices -- Research Method -- Summary of Results -- Discussion -- Sexual Knowledge -- Attitude Towards Sexual Behaviour -- Attitude Towards Family Planning -- Attitude Towards Transactional Sex -- Participation in Transactional Sex -- Sexual Role Negotiation -- Sex Risk Behaviours -- Towards a Theory of Sexual Intelligence -- Sexual Knowledge -- Awareness of the Secret Sexual Self -- The Ability to Connect with Others -- References -- 4: Women Who Have Sex with Women in Jamaica -- Background to the Study -- Some Assumptions -- The Cass Model of Sexual Orientation -- Research Methodology -- Sample Selection -- Instruments -- Consent and Release for Publication -- Data Analysis -- Procedures -- Findings -- Dress, Desire and Demeanour

This book brings together the most recent work of Caribbean psychologists in the English-speaking islands of Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad on gender and sexuality. The authors analyse the unique challenges posed by contradictions between cultural values and modern sexual expression in the region. They examine a broad range of topics such as conceptions of gender roles in primary school children, sexual behavior and emotional social intelligence in adolescents, and sexual identities and orientations in adults. Chapters cover issues including how women who have sex with women (WSWs) self-identify, the 'Lebenswelt' (life world) of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Jamaica, transsexual care and its psychological impact, the influence of music on sexuality, how intimacy is defined, as well as the relationship between identity formation and the fear of intimacy in Jamaica, and the practice of polyamory in Jamaica and Trinidad. This distinctive collection is the first of its kind, grounded in both qualitative and quantitative research. It presents a sophisticated comparative analyses of the cultures of the Anglophone Caribbean represented by Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados to offer a broader discussions of intimacy and relationships. With practical implications for therapy, it will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of gender and sexuality studies, psychology and culture.

The aim of this study was to examine illness presentation and understand how psychiatric patients make meaning of the causes of their mental illnesses. Six Jamaican psychiatric patients were interviewed using the McGill Illness Narrative Interview Schedule. Of the 6, 3 representative case studies were chosen. The hermeneutic phenomenological approach and the common sense model were used in the formulation of patients' explanatory models. Results indicate that psychiatric patients actively conceptualized the causes and resultant treatment of their mental illnesses. Patients' satisfaction and compliance with treatment were dependent on the extent to which practitioners' conceptualization matched their own, as well as practitioners' acknowledgement of patients' concerns about causation, prognosis, and treatment.