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How Much Is Too Much? Limit Setting and Sexual Acting Out in a Digital Era
Author(s) -
King Beth
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.21919
Subject(s) - ambiguity , the internet , psychology , sexual abuse , limit (mathematics) , focus (optics) , developmental psychology , social psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , medical emergency , computer science , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , world wide web , optics , programming language
Digital media offer unique challenges to parents in terms of their efforts to shepherd their children through adolescence. Adolescents’ ready access to the Internet makes limit setting and appropriate supervision of teens much more challenging and offers teens qualitatively different dangers and opportunities for acting out than previously existed. The case of a sexually acting out adopted teen (with a history of sexual abuse) who used the Internet as a central vehicle for sexual exploration is discussed, with a particular focus on the ambiguity of appropriate limit setting in the digital era. Implications for case planning in similar situations are also discussed.