Gaming Rehab: What Can Utah Parents Do Now?

In 2010 the Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed 2,000 children ages 8-18 in 2010 and found children’s screen time totals an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes per day. 53 hours per week in front of a screen is more than a full-time job and amounts to wasted time they could have been using learning a new skill, taking lessons, reading, or doing homework.

In general, if a child is unwilling to participate in outpatient therapy, or if outpatient therapy in Utah is just not making the changes you want, we can help. A gaming rehab or video game addiction rehab that is specifically designed for your child’s unique needs is your best path forward.

The next step up from outpatient therapy is a video game rehab. Video game addiction help provides a reset on family relationships, but also with the relationship the child has with video games and the internet. Simply put, the surest way to change a child’s video game habits is to create a total reset with online activity. That’s where our gaming rehab comes into play.

The group component of video game rehab is what it’s all about. At Summerland Camps for Video Game Addiction Treatment, we engage our campers as part of an interdependent team that works on engineering, science, and problem-solving tasks. It takes the entire group to overcome the challenge. Interactions become grist for the mill in therapy, and therapists can intervene in real-time to develop insight and practice coping skills.

Best of all, campers get socialization practice and learn how to interact with each other in socially appropriate ways. If your child is socially behind, being bullied, or needs social practice, our gaming rehab is where they should be.

Utah Teens and Young Adults Can Find Success at Our Video Game Addiction Help

Internet gaming disorder is a serious issue in Utah. Fortunately, at Summerland Camps for Video Game Addiction Treatment, we help our campers build motivation by finding replacement activities that are healthy and more productive than mindlessly browsing the internet, watching YouTube, or playing endless hours of video games.

It’s been our experience that after the initial detox period, campers find replacement activities quickly and can transfer their feelings of success online to an offline world. Young minds are able to quickly adapt as routines and interests change- especially if there is peer support helping the teen along.

We’ve found some unique ways to transfer online skills to the real world. For example- campers engage in drone races using controllers much like an Xbox controller. The difference is that they are outside, and racing through obstacles as part of a team.

Video Game Addiction Help for Utah Teens and Young Adults

Utah families seek our video game rehab center because of our unique ability to adapt to the academic curriculum for Utah campers. Our video game addiction rehab helps gamers develop the internal drive and motivation to focus on academics- not the latest video game.

Lack of self-regulation is the common denominator that affects a student’s preoccupation with video games and a lack of focus on everything else: school, friends, chores, reading, and so on. At Summerland Camps for Video Game Addiction Treatment, developing self-regulation skills is what we do.

Using a harm reduction approach, Summerland Camps for Video Game Addiction Treatment campers become enlightened as to the habit-forming qualities of video games and social media, in addition to how exposure to different types of online media can change your perceptions of violence or gender roles. Our video game rehab uses a harm reduction approach because it’s not realistic to give up computers and smartphones.

Under a harm reduction approach, teens and young adults learn how to limit their time devoted to video games, and to make better choices about how they are using screens. Many times campers are unaware of the harm they are causing by playing endless hours of video games. Our structured video game rehab will help your teen learn to make better decisions about their daily life choices.

The Summerland Video Game Addiction Treatment Process:

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