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Chapter 13 - Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Flashcards

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Categories of Sexual disorders in DSM5

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1) Paraphilic disorders - sexual “deviance”
2) Sexual dysfunctions - sexual “malfunctioning”
3) Gender dysphoria - transgender

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Key criteria for all sexual disorders

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  • emotional discress
  • impairment (esp interpersonal)
  • harm to others
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Examples of impact of cultural norms on diagnoses

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  • homosexuality and masturbation

- both now widely accepted

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Criteria for paraphilic disorders

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Para (outside) philia (love)

  • recurrent, intense, arousing fantisies, urges or beh
    • non-human
    • suffering or humiliation
    • children or non-consenting
  • 6mos +
  • clinical distress or impairment
  • acting on urges if illegal (not duration dependent… acting alone will gain diagnosis)
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Associated features of paraphilia

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  • acting, hobbies, collections, dimension of distress experience
  • highly comorbid: anxiety, mood, substance
  • interpersonal difficulties
  • sometimes sex dysfunctions
  • personality disorder
  • multiple paraphilias
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Course of paraphilia

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  • chronic, begins in childhood/adolescence (puberty)
  • fluctuates w stress
  • declines w age
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Paraphilia in men/women

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  • almost exclusive w men

- except S&M

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Types of paraphilias - “variations” (consenting)

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1) Fetishes
- media vs form
- form = object, usually related to human body
2) Transvestic fetishes
- aroused by dressing
3) S&M
- ritual

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T or F: rape is a mental disorder

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  • false. Sick vs bad
  • crime
  • may be named paraphilic coercive disorder
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Types of paraphilias - “offenses” (non consenting)

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1) Voyerisum
2) Exhibitionism - most common arrested
3) Frotteurism - rubbing
4) Pedophilia

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T or F: child molestation is same as pedophilia

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  • False
  • not all molesters are pedo
  • sometimes just who is available
  • patient must be at least 15, victim at least 5 years younger
  • will rationalize beh as being in love
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Conditioning views of paraphilia

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Classical: fetish - masturbate holding something, become conditioned

Operant: orgasm while activities is positively reinforcing

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Etiology of paraphilia

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  • vulnerabilities in childhood
    • conditioning experiences
    • disrupted childhood (i.e. abuse)
    • personality disturbance (low empathy, egocentric)
    • poor social skills, relationships
    • low self-confidence
  • sociocultural factors (feminist theory)
    • patriarchial structures, male dominance, violence, power
  • precipitated by stress
    • anger, depression, boredom, intoxication
    • poor coping skills
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Draw diagram of paraphilia

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see word doc

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Treatment of paraphilia

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Objective: keep out of prison, forensic setting

  • Meds: SSRIs, antiandrogens
  • Beh techniques: aversion therapy (classical conditioning)
  • Cog/Beh:
  • covert sensitization (consequences)
  • restructuring - attitudes & beliefs
  • social skills training
  • stress management training

3-40% reduction in recidivism rates vs no treatment

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Phases of sex (response cycle)

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1) Desire
2) Arousal
3) Plateau
4) Orgasm
5) Resolution

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Describe sexual dysfunctions

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  • ego dystonic
  • disturbances in response cycle
  • typically in: desire, arousal and orgasm phase
  • often more than one dysfunction
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Subtypes of sex dysf

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  • lifelong vs acquired
  • generalized vs situational
  • psych factors vs combined factors
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Describe sex desire disorders

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1) hypoactive (persisent, recurrent, deficient or absent)
- often there’s other sex issues
2) Sex aversion disorder - like a phobia, panic

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Describe sex arousal disorder

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1) Male erectile disorder (aka impotence)
- most common why men seek therapy
- sympathetic activation interferes w parasympathetic
2) Femal sexual arousal disorder

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Describe orgasmic disorder

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1) Biomedical factors - diabetes, cardiov, hormone (testos, estro)
2) Psychological factors
- situational: anxiety, spectatoring, bad communicate, lack stimulation, neg cognitions
- longer-term: prior experiences, relationship probs, fear intimacy

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Define spectatoring

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observing one’s selt, self-aware, self-conscious

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Treatment of sexual dysfunctions

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1) Sex therapy (beh) approaches (M&Johnson)
- education
- eliminate performance anxiety
- sensate focus (systematic desensitation)
- squeeze technique
- masturbation

2) Couples
3) Individ psychoth
4) Medical interventions - drugs, surgery

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Difference between transgender and transsexual

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Xgender: which gender you identify with, not necessarily outwardly

Xsexual: once start living as opposite sex

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Diagnostic criteria of gender dysphoria

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  • strong, persistent cross-gender id
  • gender dysphoria (persistent discomfort w one’s bio sex)
  • clin sig distress or impairment in social, occupational or other functioning (i.e. pub washrooms)
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Prevalence of Gender dysphoria

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more common in kids than adults

  • 3% in boys, 1% in girls
  • 1/30k men vs 1/100k women sex reassignment
  • actual prevalence is unknown
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Course - childhood

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  • dysphoria in childhood
  • rarely continues to adulthood
    • transgendered identity
    • attracted to same bio sex
  • more commonly develops in to homo or bisexual orientation w/out transgendered identity
  • most likely to desire sex reassignment surgery
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Course - late adolescent or adult

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  • often starts w transvestic fetishism (arousal in xdressing)
  • most likely heterosexual
  • ambivalent re sex reassingment surgery
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Etiology of gender dysphoria

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  • cause unknown
  • Bio: abnormal hormone during fetal development
  • Psycho: parent rearing practices
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Define anorgasmia

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  • female orgasmic disorder
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What is IELT

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  • Intravaginal ejaculatory latency
  • lasts 5-6mins

premature: <1min 90% of time

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Dyspareunia

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genital pain related to intercourse

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Vaginismus

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involuntary contraction of pelvic muscles

34
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Nymphomania: ___ :: whanson@ualberta.ca: ___

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Nympho -> women

Satyriasis -> men

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Difference between primary and secondary premature ejaculation

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Primary: long time, usually conditioning
Secondary: used to have control, now don’t. trauma to sympathetic nervous system, or body part

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