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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