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IA - Interventions for Problematic Internet Use Post Test

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Questions:

1.1 What are questions for clients to assess how far they have allowed themselves to become involved with the internet?
2.1 What are two self esteem issues that clients who form electronic friendships may face?
3.1 What are three phases of escape for clients?
3.2 What four specific problems may clients be trying to escape by using the internet?
4.1 What services may a client keep track of while using the internet, to determine how long he/she spends on the internet?
5.1 How does the nature to bond with others differ between males and females?
6.1 What are warning signs to help parents understand their child’s progression of internet addiction?
6.2 What are nine tips to help parents confront their internet addicted child in the most effective way?
7.1 How may parents of an addicted internet child unknowingly assume the role of the ‘enabler’?

Answers:

A. Being overweight or unattractive
B. How often do you find that you stay online longer than you intended? How often do you form new relationships with fellow online users? How often do others in your life complain to you about the amount of time you spend online?
C. Loneliness, school-related stress, boredom, struggles with recovery from other addictions, and limited social life
D. Engagement, substitution, escape
E. Female clients seek companionship and relish the idea that no one can judge them primarily on their looks, males seek self-esteem through power and domination, gravitate towards online war games
F. Chat rooms, interactive games, e-mail, newsgroups, world wide web, other internet usage
G. Present a united front, show you’re caring, assign an internet time log, set reasonable rules, make the computer visible, encourage other activities, support, don’t enable, use outside resources when needed
H. Believing they are nurturing and kind, they unknowingly encourage the addictive behavior
I. Excessive fatigue, academic problems, declining interest in hobbies, withdrawal from friends, disobedience and acting out

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Questions:

8.1 According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, how many children who use the internet, has been propositioned for sex?
9.1 According to Griffiths, why can people become addicted to anything they do?
10.1 What are signs that you might be spending too much time on the internet?
13.1 According to Kaiser, what percentage of 7th– 12th graders say their family has rules about computer activity?
14.1 What may be one problem with online friends?
15.1 According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, how many people ages 10-17 receive an online sexual solicitation?
15.2 What is one new Myspace feature that protects underage privacy?
16.1 According to Velea, what type of people are most likely to become internet addicts?
17.1 According to Griffiths, what is the core criteria for internet addiction?
17.2 According to Greenfield, how many people are addicted to the internet?

Answers:

A. Because addictions rely on constant rewards
B. 1 out of 5
C. 23%
D. When you write your name, do you have a strange desire to put www in front of it? Do you have a crowd of friends you’ve never actually met outside a chat room? Have your grades taken a serious tumble? Exercise—what’s that? If your family has one computer and someone else is using it, do you get seriously ticked off?
E. 1 in every 7 adolescents
F. There are no physical clues to alert a teenage girl that the ‘boy’ who’s IMing her may be an old pedophile who’s interested in sharing a lot more that a ‘play-list’
G. People who lack self-esteem
H. No one over the age of 18 can access a 14-15 year old’s profile
I. 11.4 million
J. Considering internet use your most important activity, feeling good when you use the internet, needing to use it more and more to achieve the same satisfaction that you had before, with less use; feeling symptoms of withdrawal, such as uneasiness, when you don’t use it, and allowing internet use to interfere with normal life

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