Explain the goal of behavioral therapies for paraphilia
What will be an ideal response?
The most important goal is to change a person's behavior. Therapies to resolve earlier childhood trauma or experiences that maintain the paraphilic behavior are helpful. Other therapies include empathy training, relapse prevention therapies, group therapy, and aversion therapy. All of these are designed to change behavior.
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Which of the following describes John Watson?
a. He was concerned with the relationship of behavior to mental concepts. b. He used the concept of introspection to explain behavior. c. He was concerned with observable behavior as it relates to observable events in the environment. d. He believed that a wide range of genetically transmitted emotions accounted for behavior.