Behavioral Addictions

This book provides a holistic evidence-based perspective on conceptual, clinical, assessment, and treatment aspects of key non-substance-based addictive disorders related to: gambling, gaming, social media, smartphone, internet, love, sex, exercise, work, and shopping. Each chapter focuses on a different addictive disorder and is structured in a user-friendly way to enable the reader fast navigation, yet the main aspects of the respective disorders are covered in the necessary depth. All in all, this book offers a timely, self-contained introduction to both key concepts and the latest scientific developments in behavioral addictions. It addresses mental health practitioners, researchers in psychology, neuroscience and communication, and undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.

Covers the latest findings concerning non-substance-based addictive disorders Describes behavioral, biological and epidemiological aspects Highlights challenges in prevention and treatment

Autorentext
Dr. Halley M. Pontes is a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society (CPsychol), Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS), and Chartered Scientist (CSci) of the Science Council. He currently works as a researcher and lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom and his main research interests relate to the mental health and psychological well-being issues linked with emerging addictive behaviors such as gaming disorder, social media addiction, internet addiction, among other problematic behaviors. Dr. Pontes has received his PhD from the Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom and has published over 100 studies in several scientific journals and presented his work on numerous international conferences. He has been previously awarded with the Durand Jacobs Award from McGill University (Canada) and the Early Career Research Award from the Australian Psychological Society (Australia) for his important contributions to thepsychology of addictive behaviors and cyberpsychology.

Inhalt

Gambling Disorder.- Gaming Disorder.- Social media addiction.- Smartphone addiction.- Generalized Internet addiction.- Love addiction.- Sex addiction.- Exercise addition.- Work addiction.- Shopping addiction.