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Solutions For Abnormal Psychology Chapter 8 Problem 20TY

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Sex therapy includes teaching couples regarding the sexual functioning, enhancing communication skills and eliminating anxiety through various couple exercises.

Sensate focus and non demand pleasuring are sex therapies that mainly focuses on decreasing the anxiety and increasing the communication and consists of three steps. This is mostly effective for erectile disorder and penetration disorder.

Stop-squeeze technique is sex therapy that is effective on premature ejaculation.

Hence the options b and d are not correct.

Pedophilia is a common medical term that is used to refer the child molestation or the child sexual abuse. This may be towards girls, boys or both. Not all pedophilia are child molesters as a person with pedophilia may have fantasies involving sexual activity with a child but act on them but they are not considered as child molester.

Mostly the victims are younger children of non-biologically related females.

The treatments for this paraphilic disorders include biological treatments and psychosocial treatments.

Interventions based on classical conditioning and operant conditioning has been developed for the paraphilic disorders mainly to eliminate or decrease inappropriate sexual arousal. They are

• Satiation

• Covert sensitization

• Olfactory aversion.

Hence the correct option is .

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