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Gaming Addiction books

Below are the best books we could find on Gaming Addiction.

In most cases, playing video games is a simple way to relax and unwind. For some, however, the compulsive need to spend time in front of the game screen becomes troublesome enough to affect their ability to engage with the rest of their lives. Symptoms of an addiction to gaming can be difficult to recognize, and games these days are often designed to be addictive. As with all addictions, though, there are multiple forms of treatment available to help moderate the problem and create a healthier relationship with gaming.

If you or someone you know is in immediate need of support, please seek professional help. If you are in crisis, here are some immediate free resources.

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Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

In this groundbreaking book, recovering video game addict Kevin Roberts uses extensive scientific and social research, complemented by his and others' personal stories, to give compulsive gamers and surfers and their family and friends a step-by-step guide for recovery.

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The Gaming Mind: A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play

In his therapy office, clinical psychologist Alexander Kriss looks at videogames as a window into the mind.

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Hooked on Games: The Lure and Cost of Video Game and Internet Addiction

Hooked on Games is written by Brooke Strickland and Andrew Doan, MD, PhD, a physician with a research background in neuroscience who battled his own addictions with video games.

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Mindful and Compassionate Solutions to Internet Gaming Addiction: A Guide for Parents and Therapists (and Gamers, if You Dare!)

This concise, research-based, and tool-filled book gives you the information and skills you need as a parent, therapist, or gamer to overcome Internet gaming addiction. Dr.

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A Hole in the Sidewalk: The Recovering Person’s Guide to Relapse Prevention

Claudia Black’s seminal relapse prevention workbook has been revised and updated! People in recovery from addiction need to be award of the potential for setback and the range of challenges that can, and often do, lead to relapse. To assume or simply hope it will not occur is denial.

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts argues persuasively against contemporary health, social, and criminal justice policies toward addiction and those impacted by it.

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The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism (5th Edition: Revised & Expanded)

In this updated and expanded fifth edition, The Way I See It, Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autism—the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day.

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Video Game Addiction

This book addresses the history, symptoms, causes, and available treatment for "video game overuse." It examines numerous case studies and provides resources from several countries, including the US, China, South Korea, and the UK.

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Game Addiction: The Experience and the Effects

Video games affect the minds, bodies, and lives of millions of gamers, negatively and positively. This book approaches video game addiction from a cross-disciplinary perspective, bridging the divide between liberal arts academics and clinical researchers.

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Unplugged: My Journey into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction

Unplugged tells the journey through author Ryan Van Cleeve's semi-reclusive life with video games at the center of his experiences, from his molestation as a boy by a schoolteacher who lured him to her home with the promise of a new video game, to adulthood, where he eventually hit rock bottom.

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