Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment

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Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment

  

"This book provides cutting-edge coverage by expanding the field to include specific problems such as online gaming, cybersex addiction, and gambling addiction. Its extensive attention to dealing with adolescents is essential, given the rapid rise in media and technology use by both Net Generation young adults and iGeneration teenagers. I am thrilled to have this invaluable, comprehensive, well-written resource for my own work and recommend it to people who need to understand this unique form of addiction."
   - Dr. Larry Rosen, Past Chair and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, author of Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn and Me, MySpace, and I: Parenting the Net Generation

  

"Our clients come to us when online pornography, video gaming, social networking, gambling, and surfing create untenable disruptions in their lives. If we do not understand what we are seeing and how to address it, we will not be able to provide the help they need. This book provides the practical information clinicians can use to assess and treat this growing problem."
   - Hilarie Cash, PhD, coauthor of Video Games and Your Kids: How Parents Stay in Control, and cofounder of reSTART: Internet Addiction Recovery Program

  

"Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment provides an integrated and current overview of the different types of Internet addiction-gaming addiction, gambling addiction, and cybersex addiction. The authors deserve ample praise in providing such a comprehensive and informative guide for Internet addiction."
   - Ran Tao, MD, Professor and Director, and Xiuqin Huang, MD, Associate Professor, Treatment Center for Internet Addiction, General Hospital of Beijing Military Region, China

  

The first empirically informed reference for defining, assessing, diagnosing, and treating problematic Internet use Comprehensive and timely, Internet Addiction explores:
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Validated assessment tools to differentiate normal from compulsive patterns of computer and online usage
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The most addictive or problematic online activities
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Epidemiology and subtypes of Internet addiction such as online pornography, Internet gambling, and online gaming
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Current theories on the risk factors associated with the development of an addictive disorder related to Internet usage
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Evidence-based treatment strategies for helping clients of various ages, taking into account main presenting problems and individual situations and circumstances

  

International in scope and empirically based, the cultural and global impact of this subject is discussed, introducing practitioners to the latest clinical implications, assessment methods, and treatment approaches in working with clients suffering from this emerging addictive disorder.

CONTENTS:

Foreword.

  

Acknowledgments.

  

About the Editors.

  

List of Contributors.

  

Introduction.

  PART I UNDERSTANDING INTERNET BEHAVIOR AND ADDICTION.

  

Chapter 1 Prevalence Estimates and Etiologic Models of Internet Addiction (Kimberly S. Young, Xiao Dong Yue, and Li Ying).

  

Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment of Internet-Addicted Clients (Kimberly S. Young).

  

Chapter 3 Online Social Interaction, PsychosocialWell-Being, and Problematic Internet Use (Scott E. Caplan and Andrew C. High).

  

Chapter 4 Uses and Gratifications of Internet Addiction (Robert LaRose).

  

Chapter 5 Addiction to Online Role-Playing Games (Lukas Blinka and David Smahel).

  

Chapter 6 Gambling Addiction on the Internet (Mark Griffiths).

  

Chapter 7 Cybersex Addiction and Compulsivity (David L. Delmonico and Elizabeth J. Griffin).

  PART II PSYCHOTHERAPY, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION.

  

Chapter 8 The Addictive Properties of Internet Usage (David Greenfield).

  

Chapter 9 Psychotherapy for Internet Addiction (Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu and Dora Sampaio Ges).

  

Chapter 10 Working with Adolescents Addicted to the Internet (Keith W. Beard).

  

Chapter 11 Internet Infidelity: A Real Problem (Monica T. Whitty).

  

Chapter 12 Twelve-Step Recovery in Inpatient Treatment for Internet Addiction (Shannon Chrismore, Ed Betzelberger, Libby Bier, and Tonya Camacho).

  

Chapter 13 Toward the Prevention of Adolescent Internet Addiction (Jung-Hye Kwon).

  

Chapter 14 Systemic Dynamics with Adolescents Addicted to the Internet (Franz Eidenbenz).

  

Chapter 15 Closing Thoughts and Future Implications (Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu).

  

Author Index.

  

Subject Index.