International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals

The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is one of the most well known for-profit organizations that provides training and certification for licensed and interned mental health professionals who want to treat sexual addiction and compulsive behavior in their clients.[1] Despite the concept of sexual addiction being contentious in the fields of psychology, medicine, and neuroscience,[2][3] and was not included in the DSM as of 2017, the need for this type of certification has been demonstrated over several decades.[4][5]

IITAP's training and certification program is based on the work of Dr. Patrick Carnes, who has been pioneering work in sexual compulsive behavior since the 1980s,[1] and who founded IITAP. His daughter, Dr. Stephanie Carnes, also a renowned marriage and family therapist and CSAT-S, is IITAP's president.[6]

Public interest in sexual addiction and IITAP's programs are often driven by celebrities caught up in scandal, and blaming their trouble on sexual addition.[5][7]

References
  1. Murphy, Stacy Notaras (December 1, 2011). "It's not about sex - Counseling Today". Counseling Today.
  2. Schaefer GA, Ahlers CJ (2017). "1.3, Sexual addiction: Terminology, definitions and conceptualisation". In Birchard T, Benfield J (eds.). Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction. Routledge. ISBN 978-1317274254.
  3. Hall, Paula (2014-01-02). "Sex addiction – an extraordinarily contentious problem". Sexual and Relationship Therapy. 29 (1): 68–75. doi:10.1080/14681994.2013.861898. ISSN 1468-1994. S2CID 145015659.
  4. Ivanova, Irina (October 31, 2017). "The lucrative, but dubious, business of treating sex addiction". CBS News MoneyWatch.
  5. Zanzonico, Roberta; Sorrentino, Renee M. (January 12, 2018). "Sex Addiction: Playing Now in Theaters".
  6. Birchard T, Benfield J, eds. (2017). "Contributors". Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Addiction. Routledge. ISBN 978-1317274254.
  7. Ryan, Harriet (November 25, 2010). "Sex addiction therapy is booming". Los Angeles Times via St Louis Today.
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