Problem Internet/Gaming in Children & Youth

When is it time to get help?

If your child feels isolated from their real-life friends and family, who “do not understand them like their online peers”  or if your child is sometimes defensive about going online and ends up hiding the time they spend online, you should consider seeking help on behalf of your child for a possible dependence.

Problem internet/gaming treatment methods:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.
• Behavioural therapy tends to view human beings and behaviour with the assumption that humans are a product of their sociocultural conditioning and environment, looking at the current problems and the factors influencing them and emphasizes behaviour changes more than the underlying unconscious processes.
• Existential therapy is focused on providing the client with a greater understanding of themselves including self-development, and self-awareness. This therapy works on the individual’s unique set of choices and the meaning behind them, making them know they can’t blame their decisions and the repercussions entirely on past conditioning and/or genetics.