Internet addiction : a handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment /

"Internet addiction is an emergent disorder in the psychiatric and psychological fields. This book provides a theoretical framework to understand how to define and conceptualize compulsive use of the Internet from a clinical perspective. With various theoretical models from the psychiatric, psy...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Abreu, Cristiano Nabuco de, Young, Kimberly S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2011]
Series:Wiley Online Library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding Internet behavior and addiction. Prevalence estimates and etiologic models of Internet addiction / Kimberly S. Young, Xiao Dong Yue, and Li Ying
  • Clinical assessment of Internet-addicted clients / Kimberly S. Young
  • Online social interaction, psychosocial well-being, and problematic Internet use / Scott E. Caplan and Andrew C. High
  • Uses and gratifications of Internet addiction / Robert LaRose
  • Addition to online role-playing games / Lukas Blinka and David Smahel
  • Gambling addition on the Internet / Mark Griffiths
  • Cybersex addiction and compulsivity / David L. Delmonico and Elizabeth J. Griffin
  • Psychotherapy, treatment, and prevention. The addictive properties of Internet usage / David Greenfield
  • Psychotherapy for Internet addiction / Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu and Dora Sampaio Góes
  • Working with adolescents addicted to the Internet / Keith W. Beard
  • Internet infidelity : a real problem / Monica T. Whitty
  • Twelve-step recovery in inpatient treatment for Internet addiction / Shannon Chrismore ... [et al.]
  • Toward the prevention of adolescent Internet addiction / Jung-Hye Kwon
  • Systemic dynamics with adolescents addicted to the Internet / Franz Eidenbenz
  • Closing thoughts and future implications / Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu.