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Abnormal Psych Exam 3--Sexual Disorders and Paraphhilias
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04/18/2012

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Term
Gender Identity Disorder
Definition
-General description: Cross-gender identification
-Strong and persistent belief
-Discomfort and distress with assigned sex
-Significant distress and impairment
--Can be internalization or socialization
-gender dysphoria
-not born intersexed
-impairment
Term
Gender Identity Disorder Diagnosis--Children
Definition
-Children= 4 or more symptoms
-Symptoms
-Insistence she/he is the other sex
-“cross dressing”
-Strong preference for friends of other sex
-Preference for cross-sex roles in play
-gender dysphoria
--disgust at genetalia
-rejection of same sex activites
-not born intersexed
Term
Gender Identity Disorder Diagnosis Adolescents and Adults
Definition
-Strong desire to be other sex
-Desire to be treated as other sex
-Frequent passing for other sex
-Feelings typical of other sex (doesn’t have to be sexual)
-Gender dysphoria
-Attempts at altering one sexual characteristics
-Not physically intersexed
-specifiers: sexual attraction
Term
epidemiology of gender identity
Definition
-more males than females
-bigger difference between sex's in children than adults
-age of onset: 2-4 years old
-children remit symptoms
-developed in adulthood--less tied to romantic sorts of patterns
-children 3/4 homosexual/bisexual
1/4 heterosexual
Term
treatments of gender identity disorder--children
Definition
-psychotherapy
---understanding symptoms
--behavior trainging
Term
treatments of gender identity disorder--adults
Definition
-understanding symptoms
-biological--change person to sex they feel
-behavior training
Term
sexual dysfunction
Definition
-distrubance in sexual response
-pain with intercourse
-from psychological factors
-from combination of psychological and medical
Term
sexual desire disorders
Definition
-decreased sexual desire
-hypoactive sexual desire disorder--abscense of sex and no interest
-sexual aversion disorder--disgust of sex, avoids it
Term
sexual arousal disorders
Definition
-problems with sexual arousal
-female sexual arousal disorder--inability to maintaing lubrication
-male erectile disorer--inability to attain or maintian erection
Term
orgasm disorders
Definition
-difficulty achieving orgasm
-orgasmic disorder--can't get orgasm
-premature ejaculation--orgasm's too early
Term
sexual pain disorders
Definition
-pain associated with intercourse
-dyspareunia--gential pan associated with intercourse-psychological
-vaginismus-involuntray spasms of muscles around vagina with penetration
Term
vaginismus primarmy and secondary
Definition
-primary: can never have intercourse
-secondary: has had it but can't now due to disorder
Term
preveleance for sexual disorders
Definition
-biggest problem for women--don't want it
-biggest problem for men--want it too soon
-erectile dysfunciton--hits normally in middle age
Term
etiology sexual arousal disorders
Definition
-psychological
-physiological
-substance abuse
Term
etiology of orgasmic disorders
Definition
-anxiety
-inexeperience
Term
etioloy of sexual pain disorders
Definition
-physiological--child birth, std's
-psychological
Term
paraphilias
Definition

-intense sexually arousing fantasies/urges/behavior involving:

 -Nonhuman objects

-Suffering/humiliation of persons—

-Children/nonconsenting persons

-Duration of at least 6 months

-Significant distress/impairmen

 -Sex ratio: mostly men

-Caused by sexual abuse or trauma—feeling of wanting to dominate

-Distress can be individual or other people

Term
padophilia
Definition
-Attracted to males (12-15)
-Attracted to females (8-10)
-Attracted to both
-Limited to incest
-Exclusive—only attracted to children
-Non-exclusive—attracted to all
-Must be at least 16 to be diagnosed and have a 5 year age difference with the person
Term
voyeurism
Definition
-A.K.A., peeping tom
-Typically no sexual activity directly sought with person
-Normally masturbates during or after watching people
Term
fetishism
Definition
-Attracted to non-living object
-Will masturbate or “have sex” with object
Term
transvestic fetishism
Definition
-Has sexual arousal with dressing like the opposite sex
-Man will often masturbate while dressed like a women
Term
frotteurism
Definition
-Aroused by you bumping someone else—masturbate over it later
-Not groping
Term
exhibitionism
Definition
-Arousal showing ones genitals to strangers
-Enjoys emotion of horror or shock
-Normal victims are women and children
Term
sexual sadism
Definition
-sexual arousal of inflicting pain or humiliation on someone
Term
sexual masochism
Definition
-sexual arousal of having pain or humiliation inflicted upon you
Term
-scatologia
-necrophilia
-partialism
-zoophilia
-coprophilia
-klismaphilia
-urophilia
-commom fetish
Definition
-making obscene phone calls
-sexual attraction towards corpses
-focused on specifc part of body
-arousal about animals
-arousal towards poop
-enema fetish
-urine fetish
-woman getting haircut
Term
etiology of paraphilias
Definition
-30% of men with sexual addiction reported being abused
-60% of women with sexual addiction reported being abused
-Associated with aggression
Term
treatment of paraphilias
Definition
-Psychological
-Psychodynamic
-Cognitive-behavioral
--Cognitive restructuring
--Assisted covert desensitization
-Biological
Term
gender dysphoria
Definition
-rejection of same sex roles/activites
-attempts at altering one sexual characteristics
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