OVERVIEW

Unusual Paraphilias Course is organized by Professional Development Resources (PDR), Inc.

Course Description:
Unusual Paraphilias is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course that will describe a variety of paraphilias and specific fetishes that you may encounter in your practice.

At first glance, the title “Unusual Paraphilias” may sound redundant. Yes, a paraphilia involves stimulating sexual arousal in someone by an object or fantasy that for most people is commonplace and not sexually related, either directly or symbolically. That is not true for paraphiles. What you will learn in this course is that there is a clear continuum of unusualness for paraphilias. There are some familiar ones and there are also very many paraphilias reported in the clinical literature which are indeed extremely unusual.

This course will include discussions of the eight standard Paraphilic Disorders included in the DSM-5: 1) Voyeuristic Disorder, 2) Exhibitionistic Disorder, 3) Frotteuristic Disorder, 4) Sexual Masochism Disorder, 5) Sexual Sadism Disorder, 6) Pedophilic Disorder, 7) Fetishistic Disorder, and 8) Transvestic Disorders, as well as a number of additional paraphilias and specific fetishes, which are generally quite rare.

The goal of this course is to provide the clinician with an understanding of some common (and some not so common) paraphilias that they may encounter with clients.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify the duration requirement for the diagnosis of paraphilias in DSM-5
• List the modes of expression in which paraphilias can occur in an individual
• Name and describe the standard Fetishistic Disorders in DSM-5
• List those paraphilias that create serious risk for fatal consequences to the paraphile
• Identify key slang and technical terms in the field of unusual paraphilias