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PATHOS: A Quick Screening Method for Assessing Sexual Addiction

Pennie Johnson, Craig Cashwell, Jim Cress, Tim Barber & Mary Dunn

PATHOS: A Quick Screening Method for Assessing Sexual Addiction

Pastors may understand that sex addiction exists and are frequently faced with people who need non-clinical and clinical services for the addiction. However, the pastoral counselors have no quick reliable method of assessing them. The purpose of this article is to define sexual addiction and provide information about a tool called PATHOS that can be used in clinical and non-clinical settings to identify potential sex addicts.

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