Internet Addiction (eBook, ePUB)

A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment
Redaktion: Young, Kimberly S.; Nabuco De Abreu, Cristiano

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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: * Validated assessment tools to differentiate normal from compulsive patterns of computer and online usage * The most addictive or problematic online activities * Epidemiology and subtypes of Internet addiction such as online pornography, Internet gambling, and online gaming * Current theories on the risk factors associated with the development of an addictive disorder related to Internet usage * 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470892268
• Artikelnr.: 37300286

Autorenporträt

Born in Korea just right before the Korean War. Majored physics and served Navy as an officer. Immigrated to America for about 40 years ago. Likes playing piano and many musical instruments. Einstein is his most favorite person and like Beethoven for his music. Likes to play moonlight piano sonata. He spends most of his time with his wife and cannot live without her help because she manages his life. Now running a screen printing, engraving and promotional product business in Washington. Likes to talk about Jesus and the life. The daily life now is exercising and playing piano, violin, cycling, taking care of the front and backyard with his wife together always.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Understanding Internet Behavior and Addiction Chapter 1: Evaluation
and Conceptualization of Internet Addiction Dr. Kimberly Young Chapter 2:
Prevalence Estimates and Etiologic Models of Internet Addiction Dr.
Kimberly Young and Dr. Xiodong Yue Clinical Psychologist Beijing Internet
Addiction Clinic Chapter 3: Online Social Interaction, Psychosocial
Well-Being, and Problematic Internet Use Scott Caplan, Ph.D. Associate
Professor Department of Communication University of Delaware Chapter 4:
Uses and Gratifications of Internet Addiction Robert LaRose, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Telecommunication Michigan State University, East
Lansing, MI. Chapter 5: Multiuser Online Role-Playing Gaming and Addiction
David Smahel, Ph.D. and Lukas Blinka Masaryk University (the Czech
Republic) Associate Professor Department of Social Studies Institute for
Research of Children, Youth, and Family Chapter 6: Understanding Internet
Sex Addiction David Delmonico, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Duquense
University Chapter 7: Gambling Addiction to the Internet Dr. Mark Griffiths
Department of Social Studies Nottingham Trent University - UK Gambling
Addiction Expert Part II: Assessment and Treatment Methods Chapter 8: What
Makes Internet Use Addictive Dr. David Greenfield (open
topic...psycho-social-biological and cultural assessment) Licensed
Psychologist and Director The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction
Adjunct Faculty, University of Connecticut Chapter 9: Psychotherapies in
Treatment Dr. Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu Professor of Psychology University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil Chapter 10: Working with Adolescents Dr. Keith Beard
Associate Professor of Psychology Marshall University Chapter 11: Coping
with Internet Infidelity Dr. Monica Whitty School of Psychology Queen's
University Belfast, Northern Ireland School of Applied Social and Human
Sciences University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus, Australia Chapter
12: Telematics and Virtual Therapy for Internet Addiction Teuvo Peltoniemi,
Communication Director Information Department of Finland Editor-in-Chief,
AddictionLink and Intiimi Web Publication at the A-Clinic Foundation
Helsinki, Finland Chapter 13: Inpatient Treatment and Rehabilitation Dr.
Randee McGraw/Shannon Chrismore Clinical Director Illinois Institute of
Recovery Proctor Hospital, Peoria, Illinois Chapter 14: Prevention and
Education for Adolescents Dr. Jung-Hye Kwon,Ph.D. Professor of Psychology
Korea University Chapter 15: Online Addiction: Psychotherapy and Systemic
Dynamics with Adolescence Licensed Psychologist Switzerland Chapter 16:
Conclusions Drs. Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu and Kimberly Young