P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young September 6, 2010 8:32 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York INTERNET ADDICTION P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York INTERNET ADDICTION A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment Edited by Kimberly S. Young Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu John Wiley & Sons, Inc. P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York This book is printed on acid-free paper. ∞ Copyright C 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Behavior, Addictive–diagnosis. Behavior, Addictive–therapy.85’84–dc22 2010018071 Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York 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, Psychosocial Well-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 v P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York vi CONTENTS 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 Góes 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 P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York Foreword ELIAS ABOUJAOUDE, MD Director, Impulse Control Disorders Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine T HE INTERNET has exploded to become a daily part of our lives.
For the majority of individuals, the Internet represents an incredible infor- mation tool and unquestionable opportunity for social connectedness, self-education, economic betterment, and freedom from shyness and paralyz- ing inhibitions. For them, the Internet enhances their well-being and quality of life. For others, however, it can lead to a state that appears to meet the DSM definition of a mental disorder described as “a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome associated with present distress or with a signifi- cantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Kimberly Young, co-editor of this volume, was the first to bring clinical attention to this issue when she published a 1996 case report of problematic Internet use (Young, 1996).
Her patient was a non–technologically oriented 43-year-old homemaker with a content home life and no prior addiction or psychiatric history, who within three months of discovering chat rooms was spending up to 60 hours per week online. The patient reported feeling excited in front of the computer and dysphoric and irritable when she would log off. She described having an addiction to the medium like one would to alcohol. Since that report, a sizable and informative body of data originating in the East and West has accumulated over the past decade.
Taken as a whole, the data tell a cautionary tale of the Internet’s real potential to cause psy- chological harm. Research studies have documented a variety of subtypes of Internet-related problems such as online sexual compulsivity, Internet gam- bling, MySpace addiction, and video game addiction, which the American Medical Association estimates five million children suffer from and once con- sidered calling gaming overuse an addiction in its revised diagnostic manual. The problem of Internet addiction is still relatively new, and while research has documented what has become a growing health care problem, no current books pull this body of literature together. Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide to Evaluation and Treatment offers the first empirically based book to vii P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York viii FOREWORD address this emergent field.
This book summarizes the research conducted to date and proposes clinical, societal, and public health interventions that target the general population as well as adolescents—a group deemed at higher risk for developing the problems discussed. This book will enable practitioners to learn about the contemporary and current clinical implications, assessment methods, and treatment approaches in screening and working with clients who suffer from this new addictive disorder. For a medium that has so radically and irreversibly changed the way we conduct our lives, the Internet’s effects on our psychological health remain understudied, talked about more by sensationalism-driven reporters than practicing clinicians or expert researchers. And even as our understanding of basic Internet psychology lags, symptoms are changing as the technology evolves—from traditional browsers to smart phones that combine Internet capability with talking, texting, and video games.
Simply stating that simi- lar fears have been raised with every new technology misses the point: The immersive and interactive qualities of the virtual medium, combined with its sheer penetration into every aspect of life, make it different from all me- dia forms that preceded it, and more prone to overuse or misuse. As our dependency on technology grows, this book adds to the clinical legitimacy and raises public and professional awareness of the problem that will enable future research in this evolving field to be conducted. This field is rapidly developing with new areas of scientific exploration, which is why research- driven books that educate us about the problems inherent in the virtual world are such a necessity. REFEREN CES American Psychiatric Association.
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed. Washington, DC: Author. Addictive use of the Internet: A case that breaks the stereotype. Psychology of computer use: XL.
P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York Acknowledgments S OME SAY that the knowledge we’ll accumulate over the next five years will be greater than that collected throughout the history of mankind up until now. Surely a little more than a decade ago we would doubt this statement—imagining it was the result of exaggeration and faulty perspective. We were still using fax machines and watching movies on videocassette tapes, and the computer still was an object of both wonder and suspicion. But if we consider that the cell phones we carry reflect more sophisticated technology than the one in the Apollo 12 spacecraft, it may be that the outrageous- sounding prediction was correct.
We are at the epicenter of a major change in the history of science. We can be eyewitnesses to a great revolution in the field of knowledge and human behavior. There are many implications stemming from these changes, among them the consequences of this technology’s effects on everyday life. Reliance on the Internet has emerged as one of the issues challenging society, families, clinicians, and researchers.
This book can shed some light on this subject, even though very little is yet known about the long-term implications of this new communication system. We hope this book helps professionals who work to relieve the suffering that the improper use of the Internet has brought to millions of people. This book is dedicated to those sufferers. We would also like to thank Patricia Rossi and Fiona Brown at John Wiley & Sons and our agent, Carol Mann at the Carol Mann Literary Agency.
They supported us and believed in our project. YOUNG, PHD CRISTIANO NABUCO DE ABREU, PHD ix P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York P1: TIX/OSW P2: TIX JWBT338-fm JWBT338-Young October 4, 2010 16:5 Printer Name: Hamilton, Castleton, New York About the Editors D R. YOUNG is an internationally known expert on Internet addiction and online behavior. Founded in 1995, she serves as the clinical director of the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery and travels nationally conducting seminars on the impact of the Internet.
She is the author of Caught in the Net, the first book to address Internet addiction, translated in six languages, Tangled in the Web and her most recent, Break- ing Free of the Web: Catholics and Internet addiction. She is a professor at St.