Focusing the Spotlight on Behavioral Addictions

President’s Lecture Series Fall 2021

Co-sponsored with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a Point32Health company

When do the use of social media and engaging in gambling become behavioral addictions? In an increasingly interconnected, society that relies on social media, and supports gambling to generate state revenue, are compulsive behaviors that are detrimental to an individual’s health inevitable? Join us to learn the risks, the signs and symptoms and what can be done to preempt it.

Contact Hours: two

Fee: none

You must preregister by November 9, 2021.

Speakers and Presentations

• Setting the Stage: the Evidence
  Heather Gray, PhD, director of academic affairs at the Division on Addiction, Cambridge Health Alliance, and instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
• Social Media Use: Crossing the Line
  Garriy Shteynberg, PhD, associate professor, department of psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Social Media and Adolescent Health: The Importance of Content, Context, and User Engagement
  Sarah E. Domoff, PhD, associate professor, department of psychology, Central Michigan University research faculty affiliate
• Gambling: Crossing the Line
  Shane W. Kraus, PhD, assistant professor and clinical psychology PhD program director, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Behavioral Addictions Lab
• Taking a Public Health Approach: Engagement, Equity, and Empowerment
  Victor Ortiz, MSW, director of problem gambling services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

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