Pornography Prevention Program Strategies (1st of 4 Programs on Pornography Intervention)
CEU’s: 2-3 hours based on request (CE Broker Tracking #: 20-615472)
Resource for Course on Coping.us:
http://www.coping.us/pornographyintervention.html
and
http://www.coping.us/pathfinderparenting.html
Description of Program: This program takes a prevention orientation to an emerging epidemic of internet pornography which enters the homes of families earlier and earlier with reports that children as young as 8 years of age have been exposed to it. There is a need to conduct community wide educational programming to awaken parents to this crisis and to help them develop strategies on how to deal with it in their families. The need to put monitors on all electronic devices and to limit usage of these devises to public environments in the home which parents can easily oversee is just one concept to be explored.
Learning Objectives
1. To learn about the impact of pornography on youth in America today with an exploration of what types of pornography are out there and on what platforms they are present.
2. To learn about the neuroscience of watching pornography which leads to the compulsive need for more pornography to satisfy the mesolimbic reward centers of the brain.
3. To learn techniques which parents can use to have the "talk" with their children prior to and immediately after their exposure to pornography to prevent the movement toward compulsive viewing of it as the child’s brain increasingly craves it after extended exposure to it.
4. To learn about the resources to supplement the delivery of pornography prevention services in the community, school and family so that the children are kept safe from this new attack on their mental health.
