Virtual Addiction: Attraction or Affliction of the Digital Age

A Workshop for Mental Health, Addiction, and Employee Assistance Professionals

	Personal Introduction and Background of Dr. Greenfield
	The Internet: How it has changed Your Life? (Basic definitions about the Internet)
	The Nature of Addiction: Can You really Be Addicted to a Computer and the Internet?
	Toward a modern definition of Internet Addiction. (Relevant research review and discussion of recent ABCNEWs.com research project.)
	Performing a Diagnosis: What are Netheads and The 12 Warning Signs of Internet Abuse and Addiction. (Inclusion of some predictors of problematic Internet uses)
	Taming your Cybertooth Tiger: What To Do to help an Internet Abuser or Addict?
	Cyber-Relating: The New World of Relationships on the Internet
	Cybersex: The Electronic Bedroom
	Chatting or Cheating: Crossing the Line, Online
	Computer Widows and Widowers: Marriages on the verge of Virtual Destruction.
	The E-Store: Shopping, Gambling, and Investing in the World Online
	The Web at Work: The Job the Internet is doing to employees.
	Real-time Living and Actual-Reality: How to enjoy and Benefit from Technology without being consumed by it.
	Cyber-Children and the Internet: How to Safeguard Children and teach parents about Online dangers.
	The Future is the Present that hasn’t happened yet: New Uses and Abuses of the Internet.
	Closure and Discussion / Q&A

Please note: This outline should serve only as a general guideline. The workshop and presentation may be altered depending upon audience background, time constraints, and specific goals expressed by participants. The contents may be adapted to your specific training needs. 

Dr. Greenfield is available for other workhsops on a range of Internet-related topics. Contact Us for details. Sample topics include:

• The Internet and Marriage: Is there room for both?
• Stolen Time: How Internet abuse and addiction can decrease job performance and productivity.
• Love on line: The truth about sex, love, and relationships on the Internet.
• How the Internet is impacting our colleges and Universities.
• Chatting or Cheating ( Crossing the line on-line): and cybersex, virtual affairs, and real-time infidelity.
• The future of the Internet: How it will reshape the way we live our lives.
• Virtual Addiction: Attraction or Affliction of the Digital Age. A workshop for mental Health , Addictions, and Employee Assistance Professionals.
• Lost in Cyberspace: The Internet @ Work

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