Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Psychopathology - Addiction

From addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of children--and not for the better.

We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses--and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces--the Glow Kids--are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids--a form of interactive educational...

This is the first book to thoroughly examine how early and easy access to the Internet and digital technologies impacts children and adolescents. Experts in the field examine the research that shows the social, cognitive, developmental, and academic problems that can result when children spend excessive time in front of screens. As a whole, the book provides an invaluable resource for those who need to assess, treat, and prevent Internet addiction in children and adolescents.

Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents:

• Provides tools that help predict a...

Tired of unhappy relationships? Do you feel you always choose the wrong person? Do you feel disrespected in the relationship? Are you unable to leave the relationship even though you are unhappy? Then Love Addiction: A Guide to Emotional Independence is the book for you. Love Addiction provides an insightful, step by step guide to help you develop healthy relationship beliefs and behaviors.

Learn how to:

• Assess your addictive thoughts and behaviors

• Change additive thought patterns

• Validate and focus on loving yourself

• Change...

Matt Edward’s story began when he was a high school freshman. After a clinical procedure, he received a prescription for Vicodin. He felt “touched by God” after taking the first pill and was never the same. Shortly before his death, Matt told his mother, “If anything happens to me, my journals will explain everything.” They do.

What I Couldn’t Tell You is a diary of Matt’s life until his death at age 25 from an overdose. Matt paints a self-portrait of a young man who’s intelligent, articulate, and full of dreams, and who wishes...

Those of us who are in the rooms of recovery, trying to stay sober one day at a time, have been told that we are not a glum lot. This book of 100 quiz questions pokes fun at our addicted selves and the various recovery programs. While getting and staying sober is no laughing matter, we have found that smiling and laughing is a lot better than frowning and crying.

The answers to the 100 questions are not found anywhere in this book. For those anal, controlling addicts (which is to say all of us) this fact may be a little disconcerting because, with no score, there will be no...