PRESENTED BY:MARK F. SCHWARTZ, Sc.D. See Bio >>
WHEN AIRED: FRI. DEC 13, 2024
WHERE: LIVE ON ZOOM!
COST: FREE
COURSE EVALUATION >>
FULL COURSE POWERPOINT IN PDF TO BE POSTED >>
LATEST BLOG POST: “Sexual Addiction: An Alternative Approach to Treatment”
CEs: 2.0 with the completion of the online Evaluation Form
2.0 CEs provided with the completion of an online evaluation form. This workshop provides 2.0 CEs. Application made to CEPA for specified hours of Continuing Education Credit for MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and LCSWs as is required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
SUMMARIZED ABSTRACT
The webinar will introduce methodologies to catalyze the capacity for intimacy.
In summary, sexual addiction is a disorder of self. There’s a lack of an “I.” Without an “I,” it becomes difficult to create a we. The therapeutic model, therefore, must move from abstinence and trauma-resolution interventions to much deeper levels of facilitation in order to develop and differentiate mindful experiences of joy—for both self and other.
Understanding the dissociative perspectives of self-injurious addictions and behavior allows for a new lens from which to peer into treatment strategies.
One of my favorite authors, Richard Chafetz (2015), reminds us that “the intersection of traumatic experience and dissociative process has a lot to teach us about addiction.” Almost every addict we work with has more than one addiction, and as they become sober with their eating disorder or alcoholism, sexual addictions quietly increase.
Our dietician once warned me that eating-disorder clients’ experience of food does not resemble that of my own—since I do not have an eating disorder. Could it also be that sexual addicts similarly do not experience sex, let alone the passion or sensuality of it. in the context of affection, intimacy, or connection, as others do?
A significant portion of my therapeutic career has been spent studying, working with, and treating sexual addiction. Disorders of attachment that yield disorders of intimacy are at the root of such relationally destructive addictions. Join us on dec 13 2024 for our next webinar to learn much more, including recommendations for treatment that come from over 40 years of experience.
WEBINAR OBJECTIVES
In this webinar, clinicians will learn state-of-the-art optimal therapy for providing anticipatory guidance for sexual addiction:
- To discuss components of treatment of sexual addiction.
- To discuss facilitating differentiation of the real self.
- To discuss attachment disorders and facilitation of earned-secure attachment with couples.
