Multifaceted Approach to Digital Addiction and Its Treatment

· IGI Global
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388
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With the internet, smartphones, and video games easily available to increasing portions of society, researchers are becoming concerned with the potential side effects and consequences of their prevalence in people’s daily lives. Many individuals are losing control of their internet use, using it and other devices excessively to the point that they negatively affect their wellbeing as these individuals withdraw from social life and use their devices to escape from the pressure of the real world. As such, it is imperative to seek new methods and strategies for identifying and treating individuals with digital addictions.

Multifaceted Approach to Digital Addiction and Its Treatment is an essential research publication that explores the definition and different types of digital addiction, including internet addiction, smartphone addiction, and online gaming addition, and examines overall treatment approaches while covering sample cases by practitioners working with digital addiction. This book highlights topics such as neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychodynamics. It is ideal for psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, health professionals, students, educators, researchers, and practitioners.

About the author

Bahadir Bozoglan was born in Istanbul, 1977. He has PhD degree on Psychological Counseling and Guidance. His scholarly interests range widely including psychology, counseling, psychotherapy, family therapy and counseling, addiction, retirement, and systemic perspective. He has several papers published in distinguished journals including Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Computer in Human Behavior, Psychological Reports and European Journal of Psychological Assessment. And he has edited the book “Psychological, Social, and Cultural Aspects of Internet Addiction” and he is editing the book “Modern Strategies and Approaches for the Treatment of Digital Addiction” for IGI Global as an Editor. He has also reviewed tens of articles for distinguished journals such as Journal of Personality and Individual Differences, Psychological Reports, Journal of Cyber-psychology Behavior and Social Networking and Australian Journal of Counseling and Guidance. He worked as a counselor at a special education camp between 2003 and 2004 in New York, USA. He completed an MA course on Inclusive Education and Leadership at Dublin University, Ireland in 2009. He attended several international conferences and presented papers. He completed a 960-hour international training program offered by IF Weinheim: Systemische Ausbildungen, and gained the license to work as an internationally accredited psychotherapist. Then, Dr. Bozoglan completed the Supervision Training Program offered by the same institution and to became a systemic supervisor. He is a member of several professional organizations: EFTA (European Family Therapy Association, Member of Weinheim Family Therapy Institute, Germany and Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Association.

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