Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment

by Kimberly S. Young (editor), Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu (Editor)

Internet 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 Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn and Me, MySpace, and Parenting the Net Generation "Our clients come to us when online pornography, video gaming, social networking, gambling, and surfing create untenable disruptions in their lives. If we do not understand what we are seeing and how to address it, we will not be able to provide the help they need. This book provides the practical information clinicians can use to assess and treat this growing problem."
― Hilarie Cash , PhD, coauthor of Video Games and Your How Parents Stay in Control, and cofounder of Internet Addiction Recovery Program " Internet A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment provides an integrated and current overview of the different types of Internet addiction-gaming addiction, gambling addiction, and cybersex addiction. The authors deserve ample praise in providing such a comprehensive and informative guide for Internet addiction."
― Ran Tao , MD, Professor and Director, and Xiuqin Huang, MD, Associate Professor, Treatment Center for Internet Addiction, General Hospital of Beijing Military Region, China The first empirically informed reference for defining, assessing, diagnosing, and treating problematic Internet use Comprehensive and timely, Internet Addiction International in scope and empirically based, the cultural and global impact of this subject is discussed, introducing practitioners to the latest clinical implications, assessment methods, and treatment approaches in working with clients suffering from this emerging addictive disorder.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published October 4, 2010

About the author

Kimberly Young is a licensed psychologist, an author, and an internationally-known speaker on Internet addiction. In 1995, she founded the Center for Internet Addiction and since then she has written numerous articles on the topic including four books, Caught in the Net, Tangled in the Web, Breaking Free of the Web, and Internet Addiction: A Handbook for Evaluation and Treatment. She is a professor at St. Bonaventure University and her work has appeared in hundreds of media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek, and she has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, and ABC World News Tonight. She has written creatively on and off since she was eight-years-old, mainly working on poems and short stories. While recovering from retina re-attachment eye surgery, she was homebound for several months and decided to pursue her creative writing more seriously. The Eighth Wonder is her first novel.

Reviews

[محمد · Rating 5 out of 5]

كيمبرلي يونغ) استاذة جامعية )وطبيبة نفسانية،متخصصة في إدمان الإنترنت. وفي عام( 1995)،أسست مركز (إدمان الإنترنت)ولها العديد من المقالات حول هذاالموضوع بما في ذلك هذا الكتاب الذي يعتمد في بدايته على دراسة مسحية سريعة على
مجموعة من الناس وأخذ آرائهم حول استخدامات الأنترنت ومدى إدمانهم .

الكتاب به بعض التجارب الممتعة وخبرات الأزواج وبعض الإنفصالات الناتجة عن إدمان الأنترنت .
من الكتاب :
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(إستراتيجية الشفاء الأولى من إدمان الأنترنت :
هي التعرف إلى الأمور التي تخلينا عنها ونفتقدها.
كمبرلي يونغ)

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في مجتمع الأنترنت جميع النساء واثقات من أنفسهن، وميالات للمغامرة ، بينما كل الرجال شقراً ،ضخمي الجثة ، بعمر لايتجازالـ 25 عاماً.
كمبرلي يونغ

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(علاقات الأنترنت تأخذ شكل الكره النارية، فهي تشتعل بسرعة،ولكنها سرعان ما تخبو بالسرعة نفسها .)
كمبرلي يونغ

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"إنه المكان الوحيد الذي أشعر فيه بقيمة رأيي وأهميته".
على لسان (بوب.). مدمن أنترنت.

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الشعور بعدم السعادة يشكل أرضا خصبة وطبيعية للإدمان سواء كان على الأنترنت أو غير ذلك .

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عندما يذهب زوجك إلى غرفة الكمبيور بعد وجبة العشاء ويستمر لمدة أربع ساعات وأكثر ،على "الخط المباشر " ربما تعتقدين أنه ينجز عمله،بينما الحقيقة هي أنه قد يكون في خضم مشاركة أدق تفاصيل حياتكما مع إمرأة أخرى .

[Ali Atrash · Rating 5 out of 5]

important book