Pedophilia
Coordinated Efforts With Other Professionals
Treating pedophiliac individuals requires coordinating the efforts of a variety of professionals so that services will not be duplicated, and focusing on the already-existent skills of various professionals so that the final integrated components of treatment help the…
Treatment to Resolve Intrapsychic Conflicts
A number of other forms of therapy are available that focus primarily on the intrapsychic conflicts that have led the pedophiliac individual to commit sexually offensive acts. The goals of such therapies are frequently idiosyncratic to the individual,…
Maintaining Treatment Gains and Preventing Relapse
Treatment programs for pedophiles do not assume that treatment is something to be delivered only in the therapist’s office and that once it is delivered, the pedophile is cured. Instead, treatment programs approach pedophiliac behavior as an ongoing…
Other Treatment Modalities
A popular treatment for pedophiliac individuals involves the sexual addiction model developed by Carnes (1990). The similarities between paraphilias and addictions include denial of a problem, secrecy of the deviant behavior, and…
Treatment to Develop Prosocial Behavior
Pedophiliac persons may receive treatment to decrease pedophiliac arousal or enhance arousal to adults but still be unable to interact with adults because of deficits in the skills necessary for such interaction (Hudson and Ward 1997) - for…
Treatment to Establish Adult Sexual Interest
The majority of pedophiliac individuals are sexually attracted to and involved with adult sexual partners. Only 6.6% of these persons report no adult sexual attraction or interest (Abel and Osborn, in press). Even with the reduction of pedophiliac…
Treatment to Decrease Attitudes and Beliefs Supportive of Pedophiliac Behavior
When individuals behave in a manner that is counter to societal norms, they frequently lose self-esteem and become anxious or depressed about what they have done. The fewer people in an individual’s environment who are aware of the…
Pedophilia - Imaginal Desensitization
McConaghy and co-workers (McConaghy 1990; McConaghy et al. 1985) described a treatment component for decreasing pedophiliac arousal without aversion therapy. Pedophiliac individuals frequently report having irresistible urges to become sexually involved with children. These urges are accompanied by…
Pedophilia
Pedophilia
Introduction
Treatment to Reduce Pedophiliac Interests
Pedophilia - Satiation
One common theory about the development and maintenance of pedophiliac interest is that pedophiliac individuals recall sexual experiences with children because these memories are intensely erotic and become more so as they are paired hundreds of times with…
Pedophilia - Olfactory Aversion
Early attempts at aversion therapy involved the pedophiliac patient’s pairing or associating mildly painful, aversive stimulation (via electrical aversion) or nausea (induced by apomorphine) with sexual fantasies and sexual thoughts of children. These forms of aversion therapy are…
Treatment to Reduce Pedophiliac Interests
The single factor that separates pedophiles from nonpedophiles is the former’s ongoing, recurrent sexual fantasies or urges generally involving children under age 14 years. It is therefore not surprising that multiple treatments have been developed to reduce sexual…
Pedophilia - Covert Sensitization
Most sexual behaviors are the result of an extensive chain of events that end with the consummation of a sexual act. Similarly, pedophiliac sexual acts are the eventual consequences of a chain of events: experiencing increased stress, emotional…
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