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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…