Important things to ask when you are looking for
help in treating video game addiction:
Do you believe that video games can be addictive?
Have you ever treated anyone for computer or video
game addiction?
If not, what is your approach for treating addiction?
Do you believe that video game addiction needs
to be treated directly as a primary problem? Or
merely as a symptom for an underlying problem? [You
want to work with someone who will treat video game
addiction as a primary problem, not as a secondary
issue.]
On-line resources and specialists:
The National Institute on Media and the
Family does not endorse any of the following
resources. We offer these resources as information.
Dr. Maressa Orzack, Licensed clinical
psychologist, on the Harvard Medical
School faculty, Coordinator of Computer
Addiction Services at McLean Hospital,
at www.computeraddiction.com.
Dr. Kimberly Young, Executive Director,
Center for Online Addiction, at www.netaddiction.com.
"Video Game Addiction Among Adolescents:
Associations with Academic Performance
and Aggression" (April, 2003).
A paper presented at the Society for
Research in Child Development Conference
by Dr. Marney R. Hauge and Dr. Douglas
A. Gentile.
"Measuring Problem Video Game
Playing in Adolescents" (December,
2002). By Salguero, Moran, and Bersabe
in Addiction, volume 97, page 1601.
"Video Games and Public Health"
(February, 2004). Journal of Adolescence,
27, 1.
"Internet Addiction: A New Clinical
Phenomenon and Its Consequences"
(December, 2004). By Kimberly Young
in American Behavioral Scientist, 48,
page 402.
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