Technosexual: The Improvements, Intrusions, Complexities, and Compulsions That Technology Brings to Modern Sexuality

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Erica Sarr, Erica Sarr, PsyD, MEd, BCB, CSAT-S Related seminars and products

Gentle Path

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Erica Sarr, PsyD, MEd, BCB, CSAT-S, is a licensed clinical psychologist and currently serves as the clinical director for Gentle Path at The Meadows. She also is a national speaker on process addiction and mental health issues. Her specialty is integrating a framework of positive sexuality with accountability while working with clients who struggle with compulsive sexual behavior or who have committed professional or criminal sexual boundary violations. She is passionate about helping all clients define and embrace healthy, joyful, values- congruent sexuality across the lifespan. Dr. Sarr also specializes in the intersection of sexuality, mental health, and technology, particularly in the area of video games.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Erica Sarr is the clinical director at Gentle Path at the Meadows.
Non-financial: Erica Sarr has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

 

 

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Objectives

1. Catalogue 3 areas beyond pornography where technology has impacted modern sexuality.
2. Evaluate the concept of technostress and how that applies to technology and sexuality.
3. Utilize at least 3 new assessment questions related to sexuality and technology that they made add to the assessment process in their therapeutic practice.

Outline

• Technology has a broader definition than we tend to credit and impacts sexuality in a much broader spectrum.
• Beyond personal choice, there are therapeutic, medical, legal, and ethical implications to every major technological growth in the sexuality arena
• Technological change is so rapid that we do not have the internal adaptations to understand the long term implications of new technologies, leading to the rise of phenomena such as internet addiction and sexual addiction.
• Regular updates are needed to our intake and screening processes, including suggestions on how to update sexual and technological questions during intake and initial assessment to help uncover issues early on in treatment.

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Sex Educators and Therapists
• Addiction Professionals
• Nurses

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