Technology continues to reshape how adolescents and adults engage in sexually harmful behavior. Digital platforms, social media, gaming environments, messaging applications, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies create new opportunities for sexual behavior, boundary violations, exploitation, and offending. These changes also affect how professionals assess risk, develop treatment plans, manage technology use, and respond to the emotional demands of this work.
Keeping pace requires more than knowing which apps are popular. Professionals need a working understanding of technology, access to current research and treatment strategies, and awareness of how their own emotional reactions and assumptions influence clinical decision-making.
This workshop organizes these challenges around three interconnected quotients:
• TQ: Technology Quotient
Understanding the apps, platforms, games, and online spaces clients use, how they work, and what questions to ask about them.
• IQ: Intelligence Quotient
Knowing the current research about technology and sexual behavior, and using it to guide assessment and treatment. Examples of specific treatment suggestions will be provided.
• EQ: Emotional Quotient
Recognizing how your own reactions, biases, and experiences shape your clinical work, while building self-awareness, resilience, and more thoughtful responses to clients.
Throughout the workshop, participants will apply the 3 Q framework to cases involving adolescents and adults. The emphasis will remain practical. Participants will leave with strategies for asking better technology-related questions, incorporating digital behavior into assessment and treatment, interpreting emerging research, and responding more thoughtfully to the emotional complexity of technology-related sexual behavior.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed for professionals who assess, treat, supervise, or manage adolescents or adults involved in technology-facilitated sexually harmful behavior. It is particularly relevant for clinicians, evaluators, probation and parole professionals, treatment supervisors, and others seeking practical strategies for understanding the increasingly important intersection of technology and sexual behavior.
Learning Objectives
1. Describe key features of contemporary digital technologies and online environments relevant to sexually harmful behavior and identify technology-focused questions for use in assessment and treatment.
2. Apply current research and emerging knowledge about technology-related sexual behavior to case conceptualization, assessment, treatment planning, and management decisions.
3. Identify ways technology use and digital behavior should be addressed as part of treatment rather than viewed solely as a restriction or risk-management issue.
4. Evaluate how personal reactions, assumptions, biases, and emotional responses to technology and sexual behavior influence clinical judgment and therapeutic interactions.
5. Integrate Technology Quotient, Intelligence Quotient, and Emotional Quotient into a practical framework for working with adolescents and adults involved in technology-facilitated sexually harmful behavior.
Presenters
David L. Delmonico, Ph.D., LPC is a Professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Delmonico and a graduate of Kent State University’s Counseling and Human Development Services Program. He conducts research, consultation, and training on topics such as cybersex, cyberoffense, and cybersafety. Dr. Delmonico also lectures on topics such as general Internet psychology and sexually addictive and compulsive behaviors. Dr. Delmonico is co-author of In the Shadows of the Net, Cybersex Unhooked, Cybersex Unplugged, Illegal Images, and The Illegal Images Workbook. He has published numerous scholarly articles on a variety of addiction, technology, and sexuality topics. Dr. Delmonico is Director of the Online Behavior Research and Education Center (OBREC) at Duquesne University and past Editor-in-Chief of the Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity journal.
Elizabeth Griffin, MA, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with forty years of experience in assessing and treating adolescents and adults struggling with problematic sexual behavior, including online sexual offense behavior. She has worked in diverse settings, including inpatient and outpatient facilities, the military, prisons, and civil commitment programs. Ms. Griffin lectures and consults nationally on the assessment and treatment of sexually compulsive behavior and sexual offense behavior. For the past 30 years, she has specialized in the evaluation and treatment of online sexual offense behavior. Ms. Griffin has also published numerous academic articles on issues related to problematic sexual behavior and is a co-owner of Internet Behavior Consulting. Her latest publication is The Illegal Images Workbook: Understanding and Changing Harmful Online Sexual Behavior. Ms. Griffin is a member of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) and serves on its Board of Directors.
Ali Tabb, Ph.D., LCSW, is a clinical social worker, educator, and researcher specializing in adolescents with harmful sexual behaviors, adolescent sexuality, pornography use, and digital media. She is the owner of Breyta Counseling and Consulting and has more than a decade of clinical experience working with adolescents and families across residential, outpatient, and child advocacy settings. She is a Credentialed Sexually Abusive Youth Clinician and is licensed as a clinical social worker in Indiana and California. Dr. Tabb earned her Ph.D. in Social Work from Indiana University, where her dissertation examined clinicians’ perceptions and practices for addressing pornography use with adolescents in treatment for harmful sexual behaviors. She teaches social work courses at Indiana University and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has presented nationally and internationally on pornography, adolescent sexual behavior, digital media, and clinical practice with youth who have engaged in harmful sexual behaviors. Her scholarship also includes research on gender-diverse youth and access to gender-affirming care. Dr. Tabb is a member of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) and serves on its Board of Directors.
12 pm-3 pm Eastern
11 am-2 pm Central
10 am-1 pm Mountain
9 am-12 pm Pacific
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