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Case Reports
. 2011 Spring;44(1):133-7.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-133.

Assessment and treatment of foot-shoe fetish displayed by a man with autism

Claudia L Dozier  1 , Brian A Iwata, April S Worsdell
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Assessment and treatment of foot-shoe fetish displayed by a man with autism

Claudia L Dozier et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 2011 Spring.

Abstract

Results of a functional analysis indicated that a man diagnosed with autism engaged in bizarre sexual behavior in the presence of women wearing sandals. Several treatments proved to be ineffective or impractical. By contrast, a response-interruption/time-out procedure quickly eliminated the problem behavior in multiple settings.

Keywords: fetish; functional analysis; sexual behavior.

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Mean percentage of intervals of inappropriate sexual behavior (ISB) across functional analysis conditions (top) and latency (in seconds) to the first occurrence of ISB during baseline, sensory extinction (EXT), and response-interruption/time-out (RI/TO) conditions (bottom). Latency is shown as 300 s (session maximum) if ISB never occurred.
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