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Book SynopsisInternet 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 the
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"…there is much to commend in this book because it presents an impressive range of current views of problematic Internet use and, in doing so, provides fascinating insight into human beings who, again and again, have been seduced by the siren call of new technologies that allow us to experience aspects of life in ways previously." (PsycCRITIQUES, May 2012)
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
About the Editors xi
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction xv
PART I UNDERSTANDING INTERNET BEHAVIOR AND ADDICTION
Chapter 1 Prevalence Estimates and Etiologic Models of Internet Addiction 3
Kimberly S. Young, Xiao Dong Yue, and Li Ying
Chapter 2 Clinical Assessment of Internet-Addicted Clients 19
Kimberly S. Young
Chapter 3 Online Social Interaction, PsychosocialWell-Being, and Problematic Internet Use 35
Scott E. Caplan and Andrew C. High
Chapter 4 Uses and Gratifications of Internet Addiction 55
Robert LaRose
Chapter 5 Addiction to Online Role-Playing Games 73
Lukas Blinka and David Smahel
Chapter 6 Gambling Addiction on the Internet 91
Mark Griffiths
Chapter 7 Cybersex Addiction and Compulsivity 113
David L. Delmonico and Elizabeth J. Griffin
PART II PSYCHOTHERAPY, TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION
Chapter 8 The Addictive Properties of Internet Usage 135
David Greenfield
Chapter 9 Psychotherapy for Internet Addiction 155
Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu and Dora Sampaio Goes
Chapter 10 Working with Adolescents Addicted to the Internet 173
Keith W. Beard
Chapter 11 Internet Infidelity: A Real Problem 191
Monica T. Whitty
Chapter 12 Twelve-Step Recovery in Inpatient Treatment for Internet Addiction 205
Shannon Chrismore, Ed Betzelberger, Libby Bier, and Tonya Camacho
Chapter 13 Toward the Prevention of Adolescent Internet Addiction 223
Jung-Hye Kwon
Chapter 14 Systemic Dynamics with Adolescents Addicted to the Internet 245
Franz Eidenbenz
Chapter 15 Closing Thoughts and Future Implications 267
Kimberly S. Young and Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu
Author Index 275
Subject Index 281
