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The internet has transformed the world we live in, but it also poses new risks to our psychological well-being. This book provides an introduction to the issue of internet addiction, an increasingly common problem. All day, every day, we are connected to the internet, putting most people at some level of risk for internet addiction. Problematic internet use can take many forms, including overuse of social media and addictions to online shopping, gaming, or pornography. Such behaviors can cause anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, loneliness, and physical health problems. People can lose their jobs and families, and in a few extreme cases, internet addiction has directly led to the death of the addicted individual or a child in their care. Internet Addiction is the latest volume in Greenwood's Health and Medical Issues Today series. Part I explores what internet addiction is, the many forms it can take, and the serious consequences it can have. Part II examines a number of controversies and issues, such as balancing the internet's benefits against its addictive nature. Part III provides a variety of useful materials, including case studies, a timeline of critical events, and a directory of resources.

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"Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention is an informative and practical introduction to the topics of Internet gaming disorder and problematic gaming. This book provides mental health clinicians with hands-on assessment, prevention, and treatment techniques for clients with problematic gaming behaviors and Internet gaming disorder. It provides an overview of the existing research on epidemiology, risk and protective factors, and discusses the distinct cognitive features that distinguish gaming from gambling and other related activities and disorders. Clinicians will find interest in discussion of the latest developments in cognitive-behavioral approaches to gaming disorder as well as the best structure for clinical interviews. Included in clinical sections are details of the key indicators of harm and impairment associated with problem gaming and how these might present in clinical cases. Internet Gaming Disorder is strongly evidence-based, draws extensively upon the latest international research literature, and provides insights into the likely future developments in this emerging field both in terms of technological development and new research approaches."--

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Il concetto di psicopatologia web-mediata nasce dalla necessità di distinguere la dipendenza da internet, intesa come dipendenza patologica comportamentale, da dinamiche disfunzionali più complesse che coinvolgono bambini e adolescenti nativi digitali. Questo libro, che rappresenta un tentativo di comprensione di tali dinamiche, affonda le sue radici nell’esperienza clinica svolta, presso il Policlinico Gemelli di Roma, su pazienti con forme morbose che espandono i confini della clinica psichiatrica classica e che quindi lasciano pensare all’acquisizione di basi mentali diverse. La crescita inarrestabile delle relazioni internet-mediate, destinate nel tempo a prevalere sui contatti “dal vivo”, ha moltiplicato le possibilità di comunicare tra i giovani e complicato invece le relazioni con la generazione precedente, quella dei genitori, i quali spesso sull’argomento risultano paradossalmente meno competenti dei figli. Il volume esplora quindi la complessità dei quadri psicopatologici che ne scaturiscono, analizzando la dipendenza da internet nel contesto allargato di altre dipendenze comportamentali, come quella da gioco d’azzardo (online gambling) e varie forme di perversione delle condotte sessuali (cybersex). Dopo la descrizione delle trasformazioni socioculturali che l’era digitale ha generato nel modo di vivere il tempo e lo spazio e l’emergere di gravi condotte di ritiro sociale negli adolescenti (fenomeno noto in Giappone come hikikomori), viene affrontato il concetto di dissociazione come nucleo fondante della maggior parte delle manifestazioni cliniche internet-correlate, con la proposta di trattamenti specifici. La psicopatologia web-mediata coinvolge quindi molte aree cognitive, come la percezione, l’attenzione, la memoria, il pensiero e l’istintualità, e dà origine a un nuovo profilo cognitivo, frutto di un diverso modo di apprendere, comunicare e pensare.

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This book presents a new, evidence-based cognitive behavioral intervention for the prevention and treatment of Internet addiction in adolescents. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of research regarding phenomenology, diagnostics, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment and prevention of Internet addiction as a new behavioral addiction. The book is divided into two sections. The first part of the book explores various bio-psycho-social factors that contribute to the development and maintenance of symptoms in young individuals. Chapters in the second part of the book discuss the PROTECT intervention to reduce Internet addiction in adolescents. PROTECT aims to modify risk factors and maintenance factors, specifically, boredom and motivational problems, procrastination and performance anxiety, social anxiety and maladaptive emotion regulation. The PROTECT intervention is a low-intensity approach which uses comprehensive case examples in order to increase cognitive dissonance and treatment motivation. In addition, PROTECT contains cognitive behavioral intervention techniques such as psychoeducation, behavior activation, cognitive restructuring, problem solving and emotion regulation. Topics featured in this book include: Adolescence and development-specific features of Internet addiction. An overview of modifiable risk factors and maintenance factors of Internet addiction. Environmental factors that affect the development of Internet addiction. Online and offline video gaming addiction. Social network addiction. Strategies that work in prevention and treatment. Internet Addiction in Adolescents is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians and related professionals as well as graduate students in clinical child, school, and developmental psychology, educational policy and politics, and social work as well as related disciplines.

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