Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Problematic Internet Pornography Viewing
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Participants
Participants included the first six adults who responded to an advertisement recruiting adults who had problems with “Internet pornography addiction.” Two additional individuals called reporting past struggles with viewing but no current viewing, and thus, they were not scheduled for intake sessions. No other participants were excluded. Participant 1 viewed exclusively at work, and he viewed heterosexual intercourse. Participant 2 was questioning his sexual orientation and viewed gay male
Discussion
Six adult males who were viewing Internet pornography at problematic rates (as determined by the participants) and experienced their viewing was limiting quality of life participated in a treatment outcome study. The effect of eight individual 1.5-hour sessions of ACT for viewing was assessed in a multiple baseline across participants design. Self-monitoring of viewing showed that five of the six participants had notable reductions in their viewing as a result of treatment and that four of the
Author Note
This project was supported through a grant from Utah State University. The authors would like to thank Dr. Jonathan Bricker for his helpful comments on this manuscript.
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