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Comorbidity and schizophrenia

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  • Comorbid with variety of other disorders, especially depression and substance abuse/ dependency
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Social drift

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The tendency for people with schizophrenia to drift down to lower social and economic levels

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Cost schizophrenia

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About 6.85 billion annually in Canada

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3 phases of schizophrenia

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  1. Prodromal phase
  2. Active phase
  3. Residual phase
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Prodromal phase

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  • obvious deterioration in functioning, development of schizotypal personality disorder
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Active phase

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Symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech

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Residual phase

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Similar to the prodromal phase

Hallucinations, delusions, etc. Improve

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Positive symptoms

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Abnormal additions to mental life, including the hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thoughts frequently experienced by schizophrenia patients (hallucinations, delusional belief, disorganized symptoms)

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Hallucinations

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False perceptions occurring in the absence of any relevant stimulus. Auditory hallucinations are the most common, but they may occur with any sensory modality.
- associated with other symptoms (delusions)

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Delusional belief

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Idiosyncratic, unreasonable,rigidly held beliefs defended by the patient against all evidence

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Disorganized symptoms

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Disorganized speech,including loose associations, tangentiality, perseveration

Bizarre behaviour including catatonia, unpredictable movements (motor symptoms), incongruity of affect and behaviour, grossly disorganized behaviour

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Loosening of association

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Loss of logical or conventional connections between ideas or words; shifts quickly from one topic to another

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Catatonic behaviour

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Rigid body positions assume by people with schizophrenia

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Negative symptoms

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Deficits and loses in normal functioning

  • Affective and emotional disturbances (affective flattening and anhedonia)
  • apathy, avolition, alogia (social withdrawal, indecisiveness, poverty of thought content, thought blocking)
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Affective flattening

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Lack of emotional expression and response

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Anhedonia

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A loss of pleasure or interest in almost all activities or a lack of reactivity to usually pleasurable events

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DSM-5 classification schizophrenia A.

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A. Two (or more) of the following, each present for a significant portion of the time during a one month period (or less if successfully treated). At least 1 must be 1,2, or 3

  1. Delusions
  2. Hallucinations
  3. Disorganized speech
  4. Grossly disorganized such as catatonic behaviour
  5. Negative symptoms (affective flattening, alogia, or avolition)
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DSM-5 classification schizophrenia B-F

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B. Level of functioning in one or more areas is markedly below the level achieved prior to onset
C. Continuous signs disturbance persist for at least 6 months. This period must include at least 1 month symptoms that meet criterion A
D. Schizoaffective disorder and depressive or bipolar disorder must be ruled out. If they have been present must be for a small minority duration
E. Not attributable to physiological effects of a substance (drug, medication, or other medical condition
F. History autism/ communication disorder, hallucinations/ delusions must be present for at least 1 month

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Lifetime prevalence schizophrenia

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Between .5 and 1%

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Incidence schizophrenia

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1 per 10,000 per year

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Mean age onset schizophrenia

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Between 20-35

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Mean duration of schizophrenia

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15 years

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Is prevalence schizophrenia equal in men and women?

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  • men and women experience the disorder equally
  • men experience symptoms 4-5 years earlier than women, are more likely to exhibit negative symptoms and to have a chronic, deteriorating course
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Genetic contribution

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The influence of genes on the development of a mental illness or disorder

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Epigenetics

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The study of modifications of gene expression that are caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence

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Schizophrenia study genomics discoveries

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  • many genes involved govern the functioning of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and glutamate
  • the strongest findings concern chromosome 6, which is heavily involved in immune functioning
  • many alleles that indicate high risk for schizophrenia also indicate high risk for bipolar disorder
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Schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder?

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Recent research found allele mutations, deletions and duplications might play a role in schizophrenia

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Neuropsychological testing indicates that most people with schizophrenia are:

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Cognitively impaired and may have a low IQ

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Brain imaging reveal diffuse brain pathology in schizophrenia. Of note are:

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  • abnormally reduced frontal brain volumes and frontal brain blood flow
  • abnormalities in the left temporal lobe, which is strongly connected to the frontal lobes, the amygdala, and the hippocampus
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Dopamine hypothesis

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  • he theory that dopamine plays a major role in schizophrenia
  • studies drugs either inhibit dopamine (antipsychotics) and observations many drugs stimulate dopamine cause hallucinations
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Other neurotransmitters and schizophrenia

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  • dopamine
  • serotonin
  • glutamate (lower levels in prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus)
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Etiology schizophrenia- developmental factors

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  • most people diagnosed with schizophrenia show problems in childhood
  • pregnancy and birth complications including prolonged labour, preterm delivery, low birth weight, and fetal distress may play a role
  • proportion children at risk shoe early signs of motor impairment, cognitive limitations, social withdrawal, and aggression
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Etiology psychosocial factors schizophrenia

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  • occurs more often in low SES
  • emergence and surge schizophrenia coincided with industrial revolutions and increased urbanization under very poor conditions
  • associated with urban living
  • developmental factors (which influences which?)
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Cognitive problems and schizophrenia

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  • impaired problem solving
  • memory deficits
  • impaired learning and word recall
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Research supported subtypes schizophrenia

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  • impaired problem solving
  • memory deficits- memory impaired
  • cognitively impaired
  • cognitively normal
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Diathesis

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A predisposition or vulnerability for the development of an illness or disorder

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Hypokrisia

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In Meehl’s theory, the reduced selectivity with which nerve cells respond to stimuli, especially as seen in schizophrenia

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Meehl’s theory

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  • biological diathesis (Hypokrisia) caused by single gene
  • expression gene affected by other genetic characteristics and psychosocial circumstances leads to cognitive slippage
  • cognitive slippage + aversive drift = schizotypia
  • moderator characteristics such as intelligence, artistic talent, and personality traits likely influence functioning and may lead to emergence of full blown schizophrenia
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Cognitive slippage

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The mental consequences of Hypokrisia, namely loss of integrated thinking and coherent mental life

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Aversive drift

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In Meehl’s theory, the tendency for people with a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia to be perceived negatively end subjected to personal rejection, leading progressively to social withdrawal and alienation

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Schizotype

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A person experiencing cognitive slippage and aversive drift

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Expressed emotions (EE)

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Negative or intrusive attitudes and behaviours directed at the patients (associate in relapse in diagnosed patients)

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Integrated theories

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Interaction between genetics and psychosocial factors probably best explain schizophrenia

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Markers

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Individual characteristics that would predict a person’s vulnerability to schizophrenia (continuous performance test, eye tracking dysfunction, Wisconsin card scoring test)

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Disease markers

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Markers that occur in virtually all people with the illness

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Continuous performance test (CPT)

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  • participants observe a string of numbers and are asked to respond whenever two identical numbers occur together
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Endophenotypes

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Characteristic deficiencies that underly an observable symptom and have a genetic component; a heredity characteristic that is normally associated with some condition, but is not a direct symptom of that condition

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Antipsychotic medication

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  • phenothiazines
  • reduce severity mostly of positive symptoms
  • 25% show no improvement, 30-40% show mild improvement
  • side effects: extra pyramidal symptoms (EPS), tardive dyskinesia (TD)
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Extra pyramidal effects

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Severe side effects of the major tranquilizer a

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Strange muscular movements such as eye twitching and tongue thrusting

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Maintainence medication

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90% relapse if not on antipsychotics, 40% if taking them

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Atypical antipsychotics:

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  • cause fewer side effects and maybe more effective for positive and negative symptoms
  • target mostly serotonin system
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Types treatment schizophrenia

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  • family oriented aftercare
  • social skills training
  • community based treatment
  • cognitive-behavioural treatment
  • institutional programs
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Heterogeneity

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The variability and diversity of clinical and biological features seen in schizophrenia; the tendency for people with the disorder to differ from each other in symptoms, family and personal background, response to treatment, and ability to live outside the hospital
- makes predictions difficult

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Masters & Johnson human sexual response cycle

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Sexual excitement
Plateau
Orgasm
Resolution

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Refractory period

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Shortly after ejaculation men are unresponsive to sexual stimulation

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Heel singer Kaplan the human sexual response cycle

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Desire, excitement, orgasm

Desire primarily psychological component to sexual response

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Classification sexual dysfunction

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  • recurrence of problems over 6 months and clear distress or interpersonal difficulty
    (Not diagnosed if element satisfaction,if not distressed or not coming harm to others)
  • must not be explained by other disorders, substance abuse, or general medical conditions
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Lifeline sexual dysfunction

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Person has always experienced the problem

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Acquired sexual dysfunction

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If dysfunction is a fairly recent onset

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Generalized sexual dysfunction

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Apparent with all partners and even during solitary sexual activity (across all situations)

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Situational sexual dysfunction

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The problems are only apparent in one situation (ex with spouse, only during masturbation)

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Sexual arousal and desire phase disorders

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  • male hypo active sexual disorders
  • female sexual interest/ arousal disorder
  • erectile disorder
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Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder

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Client describes persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual/ erotic thoughts or fantasies and desire for sexual activity

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Female sexual interest/ arousal disorder

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A sexual dysfunction characterized by a woman’s persistent or recurrent inability to attain or maintain arousal until competition of her sexual activity

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Erectile disorder

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Difficulties obtaining erection, maintaining and/ or marked decrease erectile rigidity

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Orgasmic phase disorders

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Delayed ejaculation
Female orgasmic disorder
Premature orgasm

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Delayed ejaculation

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Marked delay in ejaculation or a marked infrequency or absence of ejaculation, which is present in about 75-100% of sexual occasions

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Female orgasmic disorder

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Presence of either marked delay in, marked infrequency of, or absence of orgasm; or markedly reduced intensity of orgasmic sensations in about 75-100 percent of sexual occasions

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Dysapeurnia

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Difficult/ painful sexual intercourse

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Vaginismus

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A sexual dysfunction characterized by persistent involuntary contraction of the muscles in the outer third of the vagina upon attempts at penetration by the penis, preventing it from occurring

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Epidemiological issues of sexual dupes function disorders

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  • fairly common
  • treatment sought mostly for erectile disorder, female orgasmic disorder, premature orgasm (premature ejaculation in men))
  • sexual desire problems have become more frequent
  • age affects sexual functioning
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Biological factors sexual dysfunction

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  • role hormones in sexual desires
  • erectile dysfunction is in part related to vascular dysfunction
  • tobacco, alcohol, marihuana can affect arousal and sexual function
  • SSRIs can cause delayed ejaculation and orgasmic dysfunction
  • neurological disorders can cause erectile dysfunction
  • neurological disorders, pelvic disease, hormonal dysfunctions can interfere with vaginal swelling, lubrication
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Social factors sexual dysfunction

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  • culture
  • childhood socialization
  • women born recent decades report fewer orgasmic problems
  • women with orgasmic disorder are less lie joy talk about sex, hold negative attitudes about masturbation, and feel more guilt about sex
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Psychological factors sexual dysfunction

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  • performance anxiety
  • relationship factors
  • assertiveness problems, lack social skills, discomfort about sex
  • previous harmful experiences
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Treatment sexual dysfunctions

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  • sensate focus and scheduling time for sexual activity
  • cognitive restructuring and education
  • communications training
  • biological treatments, including mechanical devices, injections of neurotransmitters, PDE5 inhibitors
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Paraphilias

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Sexual arousal associated with atypical stimuli;
Intense, persistent sexual interest other tha sexual interest in genital stimulation, or proper story findings with phenotypically normal, physically mature, consenting human partners

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Typical symptoms Paraphilias

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  • sexual fantasies are strong, long standing, unusual, and very persistent
  • fantasies usually do not involve reciprocal loving with an adult partner
  • themes of aggression, revenge, hostility may dominate fantasies
  • compulsion, lack of flexibility
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Men with Paraphilias fall in many categories:

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  • timid, submissive, socially inept
  • aggressive, domineering, rigid, self-indulgent
  • confused, disorganized, sometimes mentally ill or intellectually deficient
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Fetishic disorder

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Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from either the use of no living objects, or q highly specific focus on non-genital body part(s)

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Transvestic disorder

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A person who cross-dresses- wears the clothing associated with the opposite sex- to produce or enhance sexual excitement

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Sexual sadism

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A sexual preference toward inflicting pain or psychological suffering on others and can be consider either a sexual variant or a sexual offence

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Sexual masochism

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Describes individuals who enjoy experiencing pain or humiliation from another individual

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Hypoxyphilia (autoerotic asphyxia or asphyxiophilia)

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Deliberate induction of unconsciousness by oxygen deprivation, chest compression, strangulation, enclosing heads in plastic bags etc.

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Paraphilias disorders involving sexual desires that can constitute criminal offences

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  • exhibitionist
  • voyeuristic
  • frotteuristic
  • pedophilic
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Exhibitionist disorder

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Involves exposure of the genitals to an unsuspecting person

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Voyeuristic disorder

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Secretly looking at naked people

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Frotteuristic disorder

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Touching or rubbing against a no consenting person for the purpose of pleasure

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Pedophilic disorder

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Describes recurrent fantasies or behaviours involving sexual activity with prepubescent children

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Difference between child molesters and pedophiles

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  • pedophilia consists in the experience of recurrent intense sexual,y arousing fantasies and urges involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child (exclusively attracted children)
  • child molesters: adult heterosexual males who usually have one or more adult relationships and also interact sexually with children and/ or teenagers
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Most victims are

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Girls

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Most common contact is

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Genital fondling

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Do child mole store usually know the perpetrator or is it a stranger?

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Usually know; most incidents occur in the child’s home or the perpetrator’s home

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Incestuous relationships

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Take place between blood relatives or step relatives

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About half the men who sexually abuse their children

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Are also abusing children outside the family

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Sexual assault

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Any sexual act, from sexual touching to full penetration, that is performed without the victims consent

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Rape

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A non consensual sexual penetration by force, threat, or when the victim is incapable of giving consent

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Rape and sexual assault

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  • 6% report being raped, 21% report having been sexually assaulted
  • victims usually know the perpetrators
  • recidivism rates high. 25% recommit after 5-10 years in prison
  • rape motivated partially by aggression and partially by sexual arousal, many do so with intention of hurting, humiliating, and degrading the victims
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Epidemiology Paraphilias

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  • people who exhibit one form of Paraphilia often exhibit others
  • most Paraphiliacs are men
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Biological factors Paraphilia

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  • poorly understood, some evidence hormonal (testosterone) dysfunction and temporal lobe dysfunction
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Freud’s courtship theory

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4 phases of Sexual interactions:

  1. Looking for and appraising a potential partner (voyeurism)
  2. Posturing and displaying oneself to partner (exhibitionist)
  3. Tactile interaction with partner (frotteuristic)
  4. Sexual intercourse
    - fixation at any stage produces sexual offending (rape)
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Theories rape & sexual assault

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  • Freud’s courtship theory
  • feminist theory
  • integrative theories
  • failure to achieve intimacy combined poor social skills
  • reinforcement provided by sexual pleasure, empowerment, high risk taking
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Paraphilias treatment

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Aversion therapy
Cognitive- behavioural therapy
Hormone therapy

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Gender identity disorder

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  • characterized by a firm conviction that one is a member of the opposite sex
  • feelings of belonging to the other gender arise early in childhood
  • rare, more common in children than adults: 3% boys, 1% girls
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Dimensions of gender

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  • chromosomal
  • gonadal
  • prenatal hormone
  • internal organs
  • external genital appearance
  • gender identity
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Gender role

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The collection of those characteristics that society defines as masculine or feminine

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When the biological variables are consistent, but discordant with the person’s sense of self

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GID occurs

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Gender identity disorder treatment

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  • psychotherapy is important to explore gender issues only

- sex reassignment surgery

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