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Description
Every day, clinicians gather countless pieces of information that help us understand the people sitting across from us. We ask about sleep, relationships, work, routines, and daily habits because each offers a window into how a person experiences and navigates the world. As technology becomes increasingly woven into nearly every aspect of modern life, perhaps it, too, deserves to be viewed through that same lens.
Conversations about technology often focus on reducing screen time or managing problematic digital behaviors. While these concerns are important, they represent only part of the clinical picture. This workshop invites participants to consider a different question: How is this particular client using technology, and what might that help us understand about them? Rather than viewing smartphones, messaging platforms, social media, AI, and other digital tools simply as behaviors to increase or decrease, participants will explore how technology use can provide meaningful insight into emotional regulation, attachment needs, relationships, tolerance of uncertainty, problem-solving, reassurance seeking, and engagement with an increasingly connected world.
Drawing on emerging research in emotion regulation, attachment, behavioral functional analysis, human-computer interaction, and digital communication, this workshop offers a framework for incorporating technology use into clinical assessment and case formulation. Through clinical vignettes and guided discussion, participants will discover how similar digital behaviors can reflect very different psychological processes, and how approaching technology with curiosity rather than assumption can deepen understanding of the person behind the behavior.
Rather than asking only whether technology is helping or hurting, participants will leave with a richer clinical question to guide assessment: What does this client's relationship with technology reveal about the ways they regulate, relate, think, and cope?
About the Presenter:
Rochel Moskowitz, LMSW, is a psychotherapist working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in Lakewood, NJ. She has experience across outpatient, PHP, and IOP settings, with particular interests in anxiety, emotional regulation, trauma-informed care, parenting, and culturally responsive mental health within the Orthodox Jewish community. Rochel enjoys translating emerging psychological research into practical, clinically meaningful frameworks that help deepen case formulation and strengthen therapeutic relationships. Drawing from DBT, CBT, attachment-based, and experiential approaches, her work emphasizes curiosity, individualized understanding, and the psychological function of behavior rather than symptom reduction alone.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify psychological functions reflected in a clients technology use.
- Differentiate between similar technology behaviors that serve different psychological functions.
- Generate assessment questions that deepen clinical understanding through exploration of technology use.
Agenda:
0:00–0:08 | Looking Beyond Screen Time
- The changing role of technology in everyday psychological functioning
- Why "How much?" may be a less useful clinical question than "How?"
- Introducing technology as a source of clinically meaningful assessment data
0:08–0:22 | What Technology Can Teach Us About Our Clients
Exploring how technology use can illuminate:
- Emotional regulation
- Tolerance of uncertainty
- Attachment and reassurance seeking
- Relationship patterns
- Coping strategies
- Problem solving and decision making
Clinical reflection and audience discussion
0:22–0:40 | From Digital Behavior to Clinical Formulation
Through clinical vignettes, participants will examine how similar technology use can reflect very different underlying psychological processes.
Topics include:
- Function versus form
- Technology and emotional regulation
- Technology and relationships
- Technology and thinking
- Emerging questions surrounding AI, perpetual connectivity, and psychological outsourcing
0:40–0:55 | Asking Better Questions
Applying a functional framework to assessment and case conceptualization.
Participants will learn practical questions that can be incorporated into intake interviews, ongoing assessment, and treatment planning to better understand the psychological role technology plays in an individual client's life.
Interactive case discussion.
0:55–1:00 | Looking Ahead
Technology continues to evolve faster than our assessment frameworks. Participants will leave with a broader perspective on how curiosity about technology use can enrich clinical understanding and support more individualized case formulation.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Additional information
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- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
- System Requirements: Any device (such as a computer, tablet, or phone), Dual-Core 2 GHz or higher processor, and at least 4 GB of RAM capable of running a Zoom session, along with a stable internet connection.
- Although early registration is recommended for this class in order to ensure the best experience, attendees may register and join until the start of the program