Last Updated on January 7, 2021
Most patients believe in the limitless rehabilitation programs for Internet addiction; insist that this treatment is life-changing. But for all the growing popularity of the industry relates to the assumptions and theories in medicine. Internet addiction is not listed as an official diagnosis in the Guide to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). But mental health rehabs experts do not agree that excessive attachment to technology should be considered as an obsession and expose it to any treatment.
Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, Utah, a program of rehabilitation of Internet addiction in adolescents, provides parents with future patient’s special questionnaire for assessing the severity of the condition and determine the factors that led to the vigil at the computer many hours and marathons with a joystick consoles in their hands. Dangerous “bell” are the following: changes in eating and sleeping habits, unsuccessful attempts of parents to limit the time spent online.
What to say experts about mental health rehabs?
Experts in mental health rehabs, belief in the existence of Internet addiction, indicate that banal of counting hours spent on the network is not sufficient for diagnosis. They recommend paying attention to how much impact the use of the Internet on daily life. If affected by work, relationships with friends and family and health – we are talking about a real addiction.
A rehabilitation program for Internet addiction from Outback – and the restoration of mental health rehabs and “Adventure”. She specializes in the treatment via remote, wild places, the development of autonomy and assistance in self-adolescents, depending on the technology. Patients learn to build fires, tie knots and build a refuge in the western desert of Utah. Several times a week, licensed mental health rehabs counselors conducted individual and group therapy sessions. In the course of these patients may reflect aloud about what caused the “unhealthy” entrainment technologies. The cost of the program – from 25 to $ 30 thousand.
Most of the people caught up in the Outback or other similar institutions in everyday life cannot break away from online games or have a compulsive need to constantly check Facebook or Instagram, continuously watching videos on YouTube or read nonstop Reddit.
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