Course Objectives:

• Define behavioral addictions
• Examine some of the most common behavioral addictions
• Explore similarities and differences between behavioral and chemical addictions
• Discuss similarities and differences in treatment between chemical and behavioral addictions

Objectives

• Post Traumatic Stress and the development of gambling issues
• Issues related to the co-occurrence of food addiction and gambling diorder
• Explore financial interventions with problem gamblers
• Learn about triggers for problem gambling and related issues in the elderly
• Review the relationship between gambling and domestic violence
• Review the literature related to patients with alexthymia who also have gambling disorder.
• Identify issues and interventions related to treatment of persons with bipolar disorder and gambling problems
• Explore the public stigma of gambling issues
• Identify unique concerns, issues and recommendations for people with gambling issues who use internet gambling modalities.

• Examine Personalized Feedback Interventions for Gambling Disorders:
• Identify treatment for Women Gamblers Using Web, Teleconference and Workbook
• Explore Using Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Gambling Disorder
• Review Psychological Treatments for Gambling Disorder
• Review the Guideline for Screening, Assessment and Treatment of Problem Gambling, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Practice Guidelines for Treating Gambling-Related Problems

Objectives

• Learn about Gambling Addiction
• Differentiate between problem and non-problem gambling
• Review an introduction to the treatment of gambling disorder
• Explore Gambling in a societal context
• Identify game characteristics and their impact
• Compare and contrast substance addiction to gambling issues
• Explore concurrent disorders often present with gambling issues
• Identify special issues in understanding gambling in older adults, adolescents and women
• Review how the stages of change model can be applied to selecting interventions and goals for persons with gambling issues
• Explore criteria for exploring reduction vs. abstinence goals
• Identify common triggers for gambling
• Learn about screening and assessment instruments used in the identification of problem gambling
• Learn about issues often present in the family of a person with a gambling problem, and potential interventions
• Identify personality characteristics which are more predictive of problem gambling

Objectives

• Define Internet and Gaming Addiction
• Explore how these behaviors can develop into addictions
• Identify risk factors in individuals more predisposed to becoming addicted
• Identify characteristics of video games and online activities that make it addictive
• Review the most commonly accepted goals for treatment of internet and gaming addiction
• Review the most common biopsychosocial interventions to address internet and gaming addiction

Objectives

• Understand the creation of pornography addiction
• Assessing the levels of pornography addiction
• Learn how to activate and deactivate addictive behaviors
• Learn to help people rewrite beliefs that keep them trapped
• Identify the characteristics of people most likely to relapse

• Identify Effective Prevention Tactics for Youth
• Identify Effective Behavioral and Pharmacological Interventions
• Identify Effective Population- and Community-Based Interventions to Prevent Tobacco Use
• Identify Effective Strategies for Increasing Consumer Demand for and use of Individually Oriented Cessation Treatments
• Identify Effective Strategies for Increasing Implementation
• Identify Use Cessation Strategies
• Identify Effect of Smokeless Tobacco Product Marketing and Use
• Identify Effectiveness of Interventions in Populations with Co-Occurring
• Morbidities and Risk Behaviors
• Identify Needed Research

• Review the fundamentals of what an addiction is and what functions it serves
• Explore behavioral addictions in contrast to chemical addictions
• Learn about the addicted family characteristics and characters
• Learn about specific behavioral addictions: Food, internet& gaming and sex
• Identify ways of dealing with the challenges of treating addictions from which most people cannot abstain.