Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Internet Addicts: Treatment Outcomes and Implications

By Kimberly S. Young. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Development of the Social Media Addiction Scale (2015, background): “…for internet use, recurrent thoughts to control or limit the use, failure to prevent access requests, spend more time in each case on the internet, to desire the internet when not being online are seen as the significant problems in the internet use (Çam and İşbulan, 2012; Young, 2007 ).”
CBT-IA: The First Treatment Model for Internet Addiction (2011, methodology): “As therapy progresses, the focus is more on the cognitive assumptions and distortions that have developed and the effects of these on behavior (Young, 2007).”
Viewing Internet Pornography: For Whom is it Problematic, How, and Why? (2009, background): “Another recent study examined the efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy for Internet addiction using an uncontrolled survey design, but this study focused on Internet problems beyond viewing pornography (e.g., Internet gambling) (Young, 2007).”
Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) among youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina — Scale and selected mechanisms (2018, positive): “Considering the three models of new media usage, namely (Young, 2007; Augustynek, 2010; Tomczyk, 2015): functional, showing some symptoms of addiction and exhibiting full”
Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users (2011, background): “Perhaps the most critical one is technology addiction, which can affect various aspects of a person’s life and may even require treatment (Young 2007).”
Clinical psychology of Internet addiction: a review of its conceptualization, prevalence, neuronal processes, and implications for treatment (2015, positive): “In several studies, this model has been used to treat IA. 109,110 In this model, the first stage of treatment is focused on the behavioral aspects of the patient, so that at subsequent stages the focus of treatment is gradually shifted toward the development of positive cognitive assumptions.”
Video Game Addiction: Past, Present and Future (2012, background): “Only three of the seven studies [50,105,106] clearly stated the extent to which problem video gaming was a symptom or component of the Internet addiction.”
The relationship between life stress and smartphone addiction on taiwanese university student: A mediation model of learning self-Efficacy and social self-Efficacy (2014, background): “Young (2007) indicated that the impulsive behaviors of people with Internet addiction can be considered a reward that reduces emotional tension and facilitates future behavior.”
Videogame Addiction and its Treatment (2009, methodology): “…Therapy The most effective method to deal with online addictions (including online gaming addictions) may be Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), which teaches people to identify distorted emotions, and to learn coping skills to correct them and prevent relapse (Orzack et al. 2006; Young 2007).”
Internet Addiction Disorder (2014, neutral): “Preliminary results from a study of 114 patients receiving cognitive behavior therapy indicated that most clients were able to manage their presenting complaints by the eighth session, and symptom management was sustained at 6-month follow-up (Young, 2007).”
Understanding Online Gaming Addiction and Treatment Issues for Adolescents (2009, background): “Working in the present not only involves creating positive lifestyle changes that take clients away from the computer but that improve their emotional and family well-being (Young, 2007).”
Internet Addiction or Excessive Internet Use (2010, result): “Preliminary results from a study of 114 patients receiving cognitive behavior therapy indicated that most clients were able to manage their presenting complaints by the eighth session, and symptom management was sustained at 6-month follow-up (66).”
A New Addiction for Teacher Candidates: Social Networks (2012, background): “In addition to these descriptions, Young (2007) sees the internet addiction as a new and generally an unrecognized disorder which can effect a user’s online usage and his ability to control to the extent that it may cause communicational, vocational and social problems.”
Social media addiction: Its impact, mediation, and intervention (2019, methodology): “In line with findings of previous studies on Internet addiction (e.g., Gupta et al., 2013; Turel et al., 2011; Young, 2007), we predicted that compared with a control group, the experimental group who experienced the intervention would show reduced social media addiction and improved outcomes in…”