10.13 Psychological Perspectives and Treatments for Sexual Deviations

This set of flashcards covers key vocabulary terms and their definitions related to behavioral therapy and sexual violence prevention.

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

A scientific technique concerned with applying empirical approaches based upon the principles of respondent and operant conditioning to change behaviors of social significance.

Aversion Therapy

A form of treatment in which the patient is exposed to a stimulus while simultaneously being subjected to some form of discomfort.

Behavior Modification

Used to change behavior or reduce maladaptive behavior by means of techniques that include negative and positive reinforcement, imposing environmental limitations, goal setting, and conditioning.

Castration

A treatment intended to destroy the body's production of testosterone through the removal of the testes.

Chemical Castration

A treatment in which the individual receives medications that suppress the production of testosterone.

Covert Sensitization

Eliminating the unwanted behavior by creating a profound and lasting association between the behavior and a highly disturbing imagined stimulus or consequence.

Dynamic Factors

Include an offender's compliance with supervision and treatment.

Lovemap

A person's emotional, internal blueprint for their ideal erotic, sexual situations.

Perversion

A type of human behavior that deviates from that which is understood to be orthodox or normal.

Prevention Model to Sexual Violence

A model that adopts a developmental approach, with interventions before birth, during childhood, and in adolescence and young adulthood.

Respondent Conditioning

Known also as classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning, it occurs when we link or pair a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus.

Static Factors

Include age, number of prior sex offenses, victim gender, relationship to the victim, and indicators of psychopathy and deviant sexual arousal.