Behavioral Addictions
These articles explore evidence-based approaches to treating behavioral addictions around gaming, shopping, and sex or pornography. They highlight how clinicians can best assess function, frequency, and consequences of these behaviors while attuning to shame, trauma history, and unmet needs.
Learn how experts in the field approach holistic treatment of these behaviors and their underlying emotional drivers while helping clients build healthier sources of reward and a renewed sense of agency.
A family confronts the reality that parents alone are ill-equipped to protect their children from online dangers. Read more
Some people can drink to excess for years without experiencing the negative consequences that can destroy their lives. So when does someone cross the tenuous... Read more
Have you ever noticed how often you surf the net or check e-mail when you feel bored or restless or depressed, as if relief is just a click away? The Internet... Read more
Effective work with sex addicts must address deep-seated attachment wounds. Commentary by Joe Kort. Read more
A revolution in how people access and use pornography has taken the therapy community by surprise. Now some experts believe that an epidemic of porn use is... Read more
Shoplifting, now a worldwide epidemic, is curiously neglected by the mental health field. Read more
If therapy is in some sense a confrontation in which you must come face-to-face with your disowned self, it's a real advantage to choose a therapist who's your... Read more
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