Internet addiction: A brief summary of research and practice

Current Psychiatry Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 292-298

  Cash, Hilarie ^a   Rae, Cosette D ^a   Steel, Ann H ^a   Winkler, Alexander ^b  

^a reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Addiction; Computer; Internet; ReSTART; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; CITALOPRAM; ESCITALOPRAM; METHYLPHENIDATE; NALTREXONE; QUETIAPINE;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REALITY THERAPY; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84869137445     PISSN: 15734005     EISSN: 18756441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340012803520513     Document Type: Review

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