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UK Facility Offers Technology Addiction Treatment

By pete_gallagher

A UK treatment facility has introduced technology addiction to its repertoire, claiming that the service was added in response to increased calls from parents concerned about their children's over use of games, the internet or cell phones.

London's Capio Nightingale Hospital's Young Person Technology Addiction Service features programs that 'are individually tailored to the needs of the young person and vary from intensive in-patient care, through day care to group and individual therapy.' Treatment includes processes such as interpersonal therapy, exploring 'the meaning' of a users dependence on technology, the promotion of life skills and improving health and diet.

The hospital's Dr. Richard Graham on the new service:

Mental health services need to adapt quickly to the changing worlds that young people inhabit, and understand just how seriously their lives can be impaired by unregulated time online, on-screen or in-game.

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).

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