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Symposium: Behavioral Addictions in 2023: Clinical Considerations Relating to Gambling, Gaming, Sex, Digital Technologies and Other Behaviors
Abstract

Views regarding which behaviors constitute a focus of an addiction has changed over time. Although in the 1980s a prevailing view was that addiction could be defined as compulsive drug use, more recent considerations have included a broader range of behaviors. Proposed core features of addictions (continued behavioral engagement despite adverse consequences, compulsive engagement, diminished or lost control, and appetitive urges or craving states) suggest that certain behaviors outside of the realm of drugs may be addictive. Consistent with this notion, the DSM-5 and ICD-11 have grouped together specific disorders due to addictive behaviors (gambling and gaming disorders) together with substance use disorders. This symposium will address current considerations regarding behavioral addictions. Information on the DSM-5 and ICD-11 definitions, epidemiology, biology, screening and treatment will be presented. In addition to gambling and gaming behaviors and disorders, additional behaviors (relating to sex including pornography use and general and specific forms of internet use) will be considered. Information will provide attendees with current clinically relevant knowledge about behavioral addictions and how to identify these concerns and treat people experiencing them.

Learning Objectives
  • Appreciate how nomenclature systems consider disorders due to addictive behaviors.
  • Understand how to screen for and diagnose people with behavioral addictions.
  • Learn about empirically validated and emerging treatments for behavioral addictions.
Keywords / Topics
  • Gambling Disorder
  • Gaming Disorder
  • Internet Use
  • Sexual Addiction
  • Treatment
Presenters
Marc Potenza, PhD, MD, Chairperson

 

Dr. Potenza is a board-certified psychiatrist with sub-specialty training in addiction psychiatry. Currently, he is an Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Child Study and Neuroscience at the Yale University School of Medicine where he is the Director of the Division on Addictions Research, the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research, the Women and Addictive Disorders Core of Women's Health Research at Yale and the Yale Research Program on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders. He is on the editorial boards of over fifteen journals (including editor-in-chief of Current Addiction Reports) and has received multiple national and international awards for excellence in research and clinical care. He has consulted to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Registry of Effective Programs, National Institutes of Health, American Psychiatric Association and World Health Organization (WHO) on matters of addiction. He has participated in the DSM-5 text revision, two DSM-5 research work groups and six annual WHO meetings relating to internet use and addictive behaviors in the ICD-11, addressing topics relating to gambling, gaming, impulse control, and addiction. 

Mateusz Gola, PhD, Presenter



Dr. Mateusz Gola is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Neural Computation at the University of California in San Diego. His primary research expertise is the neuroscience of behavioral addiction, especially compulsive sexual behaviors (CSBD). He has authored and co-authored over 120 scientific publications on neural, psychological, and clinical mechanisms of CSBD and behavioral addictions. Dr. Gola graduated with Clinical Psychology (2007) and Cognitive Neuroscience (2011) programs at the University of Social Sciences & Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. Since 2009 he has been a practicing psychotherapist licensed by the Polish and European Societies of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. He aims to help as many addicted individuals as possible by developing and providing effective and personalized treatment.

Shane Kraus, PhD, Presenter

 

Shane W. Kraus is a licensed clinical psychologist and expert in psychopathology, sexual trauma, substance use disorders, gambling disorders, and compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD). An assistant professor of psychology, Dr. Kraus uses behavioral, epidemiological, and neurobiological methods to assess factors that contribute to the development of behavioral disorders among at-risk groups. He has published extensively on sexual behavior and was part of the World Health Organization working group who put forth the diagnostic criteria for CSBD for ICD-11. His gambling research explores effective screening and treatment approaches for problem gambling among US veterans. Dr. Kraus received his PhD in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University in 2013. He completed his post-doctoral advanced psychology fellowship at the VISN 1 New England MIRECC, VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry in 2015. 

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