Robert Weiss, LCSW, LMFT

Robert Weiss, PhD, LCSW, is chief clinical officer of Seeking Integrity LLC, working with sex, porn, and substance/sex-addicted men. He is an expert in the treatment of adult intimacy disorders and related addictions. A clinical sexologist and practicingpsychotherapist, he has created six intimacy focused clinical treatment programs in the US, overseas, and for the US military. He serves as a subject matter expert for major media outlets including CNN, NPR, The New York Times, and Newsweek, among others.He is the author of ten books, including Prodependence, Sex Addiction 101, and Out ofthe Doghouse. His Psychology Today blog, “Love and Sex in the Digital Age,” has hadover 20 million readers, while his podcast, “Sex, Love, & Addiction,” has generated than900,000 eager listeners since its inception in 2019.

CE Hours: 2
Description:

Codependency is a 40-year old pop-culture concept. It's what we know. Yet neither codependency nor codependence have ever been a formalized, research or criteria-based Diagnosis (not in the DSM or the IDCM). With over 375 books with the word codependency in the title, which is the right one? Moving forward with today's attachment focused, strength based treatments, do the goals, intentions and process of this work still apply? This thought-provoking talk by Dr. Rob Weiss, treatment specialist/author and speaker asks attendees to question old assumptions and consider new ideas to ensure that our work remains strength based and deeply compassionate.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will be able to compare and contrast codependence to attachment based treatment to consider its usefulness
• Attendees will develop new skills to intervene on loved ones of addicts
• Attendees will learn how to differentiate a trauma based treatment model from an attachment based model
• Attendees will learn new language toward more effective assessment and evaluation of loved ones of the addicted.

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