Internet Addiction Treatment

An exercise by Isabel Pérez for students in Inglés III

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers.
   addictions      addicts      diagnosed      knowledge      persistent      provides      records      recovery      regretful      requirement      Treatment      treatment   
for people who have been with Internet Addiction is very hard to find. First, one has to deal with finding a psychologist who will see that the disorder is real. Then, there’s the lack of the psychologists’ of how to diagnose a treatment, and conduct the follow-ups for the IAD patients. The people who work in a job where the computer is a , and not a choice, would definitely fail the miserably.
Analogous to the treatments of or semi-addictions, methods to treat Internet have been created. One such treatment resembles dieting. A twelve-step group program proposes that participants can gradually deal with the reduction of the behavior. An additional option would be to use the computer itself as a restraint in IAD. In this situation though the would be computer assisted. In between computer sessions a reminder flashes on the screen so that the user has to stop momentarily and update his/her journal on the computer. On the journal the users how their time was spent while on-line. This users with the opportunity to balance the emotions; whether the activity offered a weighty satisfactory feeling or one at the end of a session.