Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention provides mental health clinicians with hands-on assessment, prevention, and treatment techniques for clients with internet gaming disorder. It provides an overview of the existing research on epidemiology and treatment, explains the latest developments in cognitive-behavioral approaches to gaming disorder, and discusses the distinct cognitive differences that distinguish gaming from gambling and other related activities and disorders. The book outlines how to conduct a structured clinical interview for assessing the disorder, including key features that indicate harm and impairment associated with problem gaming, and demonstrates how this information can be developed into a case formulation. International case studies are included throughout, and the book also features a look at the evidence base on psychopharmacological treatment approaches.

Key Features
Outlines evidence-based clinical strategies for prevention and treatment
Includes motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, and behavioral therapy approaches to treatment
Provides an introduction to current screening approaches for measuring excessive gaming
Details a structured clinical interview for assessing gaming disorder
Looks at school-based prevention programs used to engage young people at higher risk
Readership
Mental health clinicians; academics in psychology and public health; social science researchers; graduate students

Table of Contents
The Scope of Gaming Worldwide
2. Types of Games and Structural Design
3. Emerging Gaming Technologies
4. The Benefits of Gaming
5. Industry Perspective on Addictive Gaming
6. The Concept of Gaming Disorder: Controversies
7. The Public Health Burden of Gaming
8. Gaming Disorder in Health and Clinical Classifications
9. Screening of Gaming Disorder
10. Diagnosis and Case Formulation of Gaming Disorder
11. Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Gaming Disorder
12. Treatment of Gaming Disorder
13. Prevention Approaches to Gaming Disorder
14. Potential Priorities and Future Directions
15. Closing Comments