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Analyze and draw conclusions about solutions to "problematic" digital use among young people.
Analyze and draw conclusions about solutions to "problematic" digital use among young people.
Survey and interpret research that relates to digital media use among youth.
Survey and interpret research that relates to digital media use among youth.
Reflect on your use of digital media and articulate the impact research will have upon your behavior.
Reflect on your use of digital media and articulate the impact research will have upon your behavior.
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from NPR's article "Screen Addiction Among Teens: Is There Such A Thing?"
Dueling diagnoses
"Technology addiction" doesn't appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. That's the bible of the psychiatric profession in the United States. The closest it comes is something called "Internet Gaming Disorder," and that is listed as a condition for further study, not an official diagnosis.
This omission is important not only because it shapes therapists' and doctors' understanding of their patients but because without an official DSM code, it is harder to bill insurers for treatment of a specific issue.
The World Health Organization has, by contrast, listed "gaming disorder" as a disorder due to an addictive behavior in the next edition of the International Classification of Diseases, an internationally used diagnostic manual.
See the tentative criteria for the proposed "gaming addiction" in the DSM 5"
Measuring the "Problem"
Measuring the "Problem"
See link to study:
"Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure: A parent report measure of screen media 'addiction' in children."
See link to study:
"Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure: A parent report measure of screen media 'addiction' in children."
psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-51599-001
Sample Questions from the Questionnaire
Sample Questions from the Questionnaire
Is their preferred media activity the only thing that puts them in a good mood?
Are they angry or otherwise unhappy when forced to unplug?
Is their use increasing over time?
Do they sneak around to use screens?
Does it interfere with family activities, friendships or school?
from NPR article
from NPR article
"The experts I've talked to say the question of whether an adult, or a child, has a problem with technology can't be answered simply by measuring screen time. What matters most, this study suggests, is your relationship to it, and that requires looking at the full context of life."
"The experts I've talked to say the question of whether an adult, or a child, has a problem with technology can't be answered simply by measuring screen time. What matters most, this study suggests, is your relationship to it, and that requires looking at the full context of life."
Correlation...so what?
Correlation...so what?
Is there a remedy and can/will we pay for it?
Is there a remedy and can/will we pay for it?
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