Addictions vol. 6: Interventions for Teens with Web/Technological Addiction - 6 CE's
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Questions:

1. What are three techniques useful in introducing the idea of internet addiction to clients?
2. What are three types of emotional attachment to the internet?
3. What are three aspects of escapism?
4. What are three concepts related to internet time consumption?
5. What are three emotional causes that trigger a client’s internet addiction?
6. What are three concepts regarding children who become addicted to the internet?
7. What are three concepts related to partners of clients with an internet addiction?


Answers:

A. friendship; catharsis; and validation.
B. unchecked time flow; internet interference; and denial.
C. susceptible clients; warning signs; and acceptance.
D. Defining Addiction; Web Quiz; and Assessing the Damage
E. the three phases of escape; avoidance; and anonymity.
F. depression; low self-esteem; and anxiety.
G. cyberaffairs; enabling; and asserting independence.

 

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Questions

8. According to Flanagan, what is the primary engine of MySpace's stupendous growth?
9. According to Briggs, what can lead people to overcompensate in what they say when communicating electronically? 
10. In extreme cases, with what do children/adolescents with IAD have trouble? 
11. According to Dr. Chambers, what makes adolescents more prone to addiction? 
12. What problems can distractions like the internet and increasing homework cause in teenagers?  
13. Teen venues like MySpace, Xanga and Facebook--and the ways they can personalize their IM personas--meet what teen need?
14. A survey of 267 pairs of teens and parents in the Los Angeles metropolitan area revealed what about Mypace supervision ? 
15. What two areas are accelerated and amplified by teen social-networking sites and Internet communication? 
16. What is released while playing games on the internet and is thought to be an important neurochemical event in the generation of addiction?  
17. According to Griffiths, what are the five criteria for Internet addiction? 

Answers

A.  Sleep deficits  
B.  two thirds of parents had never talked with their teen about their MySpace use, and 38 percent of them had never seen their child's MySpace profile.
C. Children/adolescents with IAD have trouble telling the cyber world from the real one.
D. lack of cues such as facial expressions or body language
E.  Social-networking sites and Internet communications can accelerate and amplify adolescents' normal sexual explorations, they can do the same with another time-honored teenage tradition: bullying.  
F.  The dopamine system of adolescents might react strongly because the prefrontal cortex is still developing. Neuroscientists call this trait plasticity.
G.  dopamine
H.  the desire to experiment with identity
I.  the fathomless narcissism of the young.
J.  (1) considering Internet use your most important activity; (2) feeling good when you use the Internet; (3) needing to use it more and more to achieve the same satisfaction that you had before, with less use; (4) feeling symptoms of withdrawal, such as uneasiness, when you don't use it; and (5) allowing Internet use to interfere with your normal life