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, PsychosocialWell-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
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 Goes
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
Dr. Kimberly S. Young, PsyD, is the primary researcher tohave brought clinical attention to the issue of problematicInternet use in 1996. She is also the author of Caught in theNet, the first book to address Internet addiction. Dr. Cristiano Nabuco de Abreu is the director of theAmbulatorio Integrado dos Transtornos do Impulso (IntegratedImpulse Disorders Outpatient Unit) at the University of SanPaulo.
" there is much to commend in this book because it presentsan impressive range of current views of problematic Internet useand, in doing so, provides fascinating insight into human beingswho, again and again, have been seduced by the siren call of newtechnologies that allow us to experience aspects of life in wayspreviously." ( PsycCRITIQUES, May 2012)
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