Name: Sexual Compulsion in Adolescents and Emerging Adults
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Description

Adopted and foster children have often been victims of trauma such as physical and sexual abuse, neglect, exposure to violence, attachment trauma or early sexualization, which can all be at the root of sexually compulsive behavior. Adding to this, the proliferation of technology in recent years has changed the way that adolescents learn about, engage in, and experience sexuality, leading to an increase in sexual behavior problems among youth. To complicate things even more, adolescents tend to receive very little direct, accurate information about sexuality and intimacy, and the information they receive from pop culture, politicians, parents, clergy, and school can often be contradictory.

This webinar will address the current state of affairs in teen sexual behavior, how their trauma history can impact the development of healthy sexuality, and how caring adults can intervene and promote healthy sexual behavior.

Deborah Schiller

Deborah Schiller, LPC, CSAT-S, CMAT-S is the Program Director of Gratitude (formally known as “Gentle Path”), a Pine Grove Program. She is a native of Huntsville, AL, where she completed three years of study at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before finishing her degree at Montevallo University. Ms. Schiller taught School in Selma, AL for three years before getting her Masters degree in Early Childhood Education from Stanford, University in Stanford, CA. She began her family in New York City and taught in schools in Boston, MA, Huntsville, AL, and Redlands, CA. While raising three children, she returned to school, receiving her second Masters degree from The University of South Alabama, Baldwin County, AL, this time in Counseling. Ms. Schiller completed an Internship at The Meadows Treatment Center in Wickenburg, AZ and became a Therapist there. In 2004, Ms. Schiller joined Pine Grove and the Professional Enhancement Program as a Clinical Therapist. She has since worked at Pine Grove’s Gratitude Program as Primary Therapist, Clinical Director, and is the current Program Director.