Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

More and more people are isolating themselves, turning their backs on reality, ignoring their family and friends, and even losing their jobs due to their excessive use of video games and the Internet. In this ground-breaking book, Kevin Roberts gives compulsive gamers and surfers-and their family and friends-a step-by-step guide for recovery.

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Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

More and more people are isolating themselves, turning their backs on reality, ignoring their family and friends, and even losing their jobs due to their excessive use of video games and the Internet. In this ground-breaking book, Kevin Roberts gives compulsive gamers and surfers-and their family and friends-a step-by-step guide for recovery.

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Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

by Kevin Roberts
Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap

by Kevin Roberts

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Overview

More and more people are isolating themselves, turning their backs on reality, ignoring their family and friends, and even losing their jobs due to their excessive use of video games and the Internet. In this ground-breaking book, Kevin Roberts gives compulsive gamers and surfers-and their family and friends-a step-by-step guide for recovery.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592859481
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Publication date: 09/01/2010
Pages: 181
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kevin Roberts is a recovering video game addict who runs support groups to help others struggling with cyber addiction get their lives back on track. He is a nationally recognized expert on video gaming addiction and a regular conference speaker. Roberts has a background in education and is the developer of a sixteen-module curriculum designed to give those with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), often a driving factor of video game and internet addiction, the skills they need to succeed. Cyber Junkie is his first book.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 Welcome to the Cyber Universe 1

Chapter 2 Choose Your Poison 29

Chapter 3 Your Brain in Cyberland 47

Chapter 4 Into the Black Hole 61

Chapter 5 Climbing Out of the Hole 95

Chapter 6 The Journey of Recovery Continues 115

Chapter 7 A Guide for Loved Ones 139

Resources 169

Notes 175

About the Author 183

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