Christine Samuels – Porn Addiction: Your Essential Guide to Identification, Assessment and Treatment
Porn addiction is becoming an epidemic. The statistics overwhelm us. And yet the DSM-5™ does not recognize this crippling emotional issue.
It is likely that you were not trained to deal with this – and being unprepared could cause you to fall short of helping your clients and their loved ones. For these reasons, it’s vital you watch this 3-hour training to learn how to identify, assess and create treatment plans that are proven to work.
Porn addiction can be very hard to identify and treat – and it can be uncomfortable to discuss with a client. This program will provide you with a proven start-to-finish plan for addressing these challenging cases.
You’ll get step-by-step guidance on how to:
- Get to the root of why someone becomes addicted to porn
- Understand the relationship between trauma and sex-related addictions
- Reduce the shame a client has related to porn addiction
- Recognize how this hidden addiction presents itself as other common client problems
- Correctly question/interview the client to assess for addiction and severity
- Implement long-term strategies that go beyond sobriety to treat the root cause and help heal the partner and family
Objectives
- Assess for porn addiction and the root causes of the addiction.
- Design an effective treatment plan for clients suffering from porn addiction.
- Determine the impact of trauma as it relates to the addiction.
Outline
IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT
- Explore the Addiction Paradigm to Assess for Severity
- What Type of Porn is Being Watched – And Why It Matters
- The Roots of the Issue
- Intimacy Dysfunction
- Nurturance Deprivation
- Boundary Disorders
- Power and Control – Misused
- Dissociation rather than Coping Skills
- Unaddressed Trauma
- EFFECTIVE TREATMENT PLANNING
- Early Treatment
- Trauma History
- Carnes’ Core Beliefs
- The 12-Step Plan
- Alternative Coping Skills
- Strategies for Shame Reduction
- Mid-Stage Treatment – Focusing on the Acting Out and Relapsing
- Planned Dissociation – The Addict, The Inner Child and the Healthy Self
- Long-Term Treatment: Transformation Beyond Just Sobriety
- Trauma Healing
- Partner and Family Healing
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