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January 11, 2016

A Parent’s Report Card: The Pew Report on Parents, Teens and Digital Monitoring

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Yesterday, the Pew Research Center published a report entitled “Parents, Teens and Digital Monitoring”. This survey assessed how parents are managing their parental roles around their child’s use of digital media. I prefer to call it a parental report card. How do Parent’s Monitor Behavior? The abundance of monitoring apps and filtering software might make […]

January 4, 2016

How to Protect Your Child from Being Harmed from Cybersex: Teach them Resilience

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

During the course of researching my book, The New Age of Sex Education: How to talk to your teens about cybersex and pornography, I came upon the research of Pamela Wisniewski and her colleagues. Dr. Wisniewski’s research focuses on teen internet safety and parental mediation styles. In non-scientific terms, her work helps us understand how […]

December 11, 2015

Webcam Trolling and Children

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

A study recently published online in the Telematics and Informatics journal brought to light the problems of webcam trolls and how they can victimize children on chat sites. First, let’s talk about webcam trolls. Many people are likely familiar with the term troll that is often used for people who post disruptive, mean, or harmful […]

December 9, 2015

American College of Pediatricians Position on Pornography

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

In October of this year, the American College of Pediatricians published a statement on their website regarding the impact of pornography on children. This statement, written by Dr. L David Perry, summarized the current research on the effects of exposure to pornography on children and concluded that pornography is harmful to children. The position statement […]

December 8, 2015

A Mindful Way through the 12 Steps

Dr. Jennifer Weeks Addiction Recovery 0

A Mindful Way through the 12 Steps Using Mindfulness to Enhance your understanding of the 12 Steps SATS is very excited to introduce our Mindful way through the 12 steps series. SATS staff member and CSAT candidate, Beth Songer will be offering a monthly meditation retreat that will combine mindfulness education and practice and periods […]

November 29, 2015

Can you be a sex positive sex addiction therapist?

Dr. Jennifer Weeks Addiction Recovery 0

Part of me wishes to say “YES” and have that be the end of this post. However, given the prevailing stigma against sex addiction therapists, I feel that this needs much more explanation. A recent Psychology Today blog post by a clinician I respect has the sex addiction treatment community all abuzz. This blog post […]

September 25, 2015

Not All Teen Sexting is Consensual

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Last evening I was in the office with some free time as I had confused the time a client was coming in for an appointment. It was a “meant to be” moment as during that time, I had the opportunity to assist a fellow clinician with his concerns regarding an adolescent client. To keep things […]

September 1, 2015

Our Confusing Relationship with Sexting

Dr. Jennifer Weeks Addiction Recovery, The New Age of Sex Education 0

Each day I get the daily news feed from Google on topics related to my field, sex addiction, mindfulness, sexting, etc. If you are unfamiliar with the news feeds, Google culls the internet each day for new things with your keyword and sends you the links to all the new pages. Sometimes this yields a […]

August 12, 2015

Fidelity Dating: One Company’s Answer to AshleyMadison

Dr. Jennifer Weeks Addiction Recovery 2

In recent history, the world was introduced to AshelyMadison.com through the news of the site being hacked. The site’s millions of members were likely anxious and fearful of their information being leaked to unsuspecting husbands and wives. The world at large was introduced to a site that those of us in the sex addiction treatment […]

August 12, 2015

Technology is the Glue that Keeps Teen Friendships Together

Dr. Jennifer Weeks The New Age of Sex Education 0

Given the way the media works, we tend to hear a lot of fear based messages about the internet and teens. Fear that they will be contacted by a child predator. Fear that they will see pornography they don’t understand. Fear that they will send a sext into the virtual world that can never be […]

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