PSYC 3402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Substance Abuse, Public Health, Pedophilia
16 Jul 2020
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Importance of terminology: pedophilia, mental illness involving a sexual interest in children, child sexual abuse. Terminology shapes our perceptions: not everyone with pedolphilia will act on this interest, minor attracted persons (maps) Secondary prevention requires: availability, before offending, awareness. Just existing is not enough: people need to know about it, accessibility, stigma. Barriers to secondary preventin: lack of education, fear and misunderstanding, stigma. Mitvations for offending: combination of sexual and non-sexual motivation, different motivations for contact and chil pornogrphay offence, self-identified motivation important for treatment, meaningful even if not correct. Identify potential treatment targets: explanations are not exuces, trying to understand behaviour, not justify them, cognitive distortions. Irrational thoughts/beliefs that interfere with how we perceive reality. Motivations for contact offences against children: half of people don"t have pedophilia (half are doing it for other motivation, feeling like teaching, not interpreted as abuse, sexual motivations. Lack of sexual partner: social inadequacy, lack of availability, non-sexual.
