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Children, Mental Illness & Video Games
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Psychotherapy Meets Web 2.0. You are here: Home. Children, Mental Illness & Video Games. Children, Mental Illness & Video Games. January 25, 2011. Photography by Mykl Roventine. I hesitated to use the above title, because I can imagine my gamer audience rolling their eyes already. Bear with me please, it’s not what you think. A new study has come out reporting that children are using video games “pathologically,” and that this is a global problem. The study, summarized here. Let me share with you one mor...
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Consult
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Psychotherapy Meets Web 2.0. You are here: Home. Have you been noticing technology creeping into your practice more lately? Maybe it’s the iPhone in the hands of the teen, video games, or the patient emails increasing in frequency or length. Maybe it’s trying to make sense of HIPAA, or whether you want to have an online therapy practice. With all the technophobia and resistance out there, there are few comfortable places to ask these questions. I have been a psychotherapist for over 15 years. Meaning I p...
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News
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Psychotherapy Meets Web 2.0. You are here: Home. Here are some recent and earlier interviews and articles. Please contact me if you’d like permission to reprint or excerpt anything:. Building a Learning Community On A Minecraft Server. More than Toys Gamer Affirmative Therapy By Christina Reardon, MSW, LSW,. Vol 15 No. 3 P. 10. Article on Spiegel Online (German). Article on Bigumigu (Turkish). Improving Our Aim: A Psychotherapist’s Take On Video Games and Violence. Interview in Psychotherapy Networker:.
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Gamer Therapy
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Psychotherapy Meets Web 2.0. You are here: Home. When people come to treatment with problems, it is important to remember that they are trying to cope with them in the best way they can. With that in mind, I offer a reflective and engaging partnership with my clients, working toward the goal of helping them to be authentic and compassionate in a world that can be extremely stressful. Here are some recent webcasts featuring where I talk about my take on gamer-affirmative psychotherapy:. Dopey About Dopami...
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Book
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Psychotherapy Meets Web 2.0. You are here: Home. Ninety-seven percent of all adolescents in the US play video games, & more than half of the adults in this country play video games regardless of their race or income. The military has discovered that video games decrease symptoms of PTSD in veterans, and with the advent of the iPhone, mobile technology is making social media more prevalent than ever. Buy it now on Amazon. Buy it on iTunes. Return to top of page. Middot; Log in.
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About
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Psychotherapy Meets Web 2.0. You are here: Home. I received my BA from Connecticut College in 1991, and my MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 1994. I’m a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience counseling adults, children, adolescents and families. I served on the NASW GLBT Issues Committee and the Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth. I am an adjunct faculty at Boston College School for Social Work. Author, Reset: Video Games and Psychotherapy. Faculty mem...
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