Positive Psychology Methods for Internet Addiction

Fatemeh Khazaei, Zahra Saeidi, Omonabi Khazaei (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

84 Seiten

2017
Éditions universitaires européennes (Verlag)
978-3-330-87912-6 (ISBN)

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In this book, positive psychology is considered as a group/family therapy method to reduce Internet addiction's (IA) destructive effects. Positive psychology increases positive emotions and can enhance social relationships of individual(s). Hence it can be a proper strategy in treating IA. The aim of the current book is to present the efficacy of positive psychology in treating IA. For this purpose, positive psychology for IA is introduced and some studies on positive group therapy and positive family therapy are presented. Here, two types of positive intervention-based treatment sessions are designed and their efficacy is presented. Positive psychology can reduce the measure of severity of Internet use while social adjustment and quality of relationships revealed an increase. This book presents an effective approach for treating IA, specifically in mitigating Internet use and improving the quality of social relationships.

The authors are with department of psychology, Islamic Azad University, Iran. Fateme Khazaei is with department of psychology, Torbat-e-Jam branch, Islamic Azad University, Torbat-e-Jam, Iran. Zahra Saeidi and Omonabi Khazaei are with department of psychology, Quchan branch, Islamic Azad University, Quchan, Iran.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	142 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	group/family therapy • Positive Emotions • positive psychology • Psychologie • severity of Internet • Social Relationships
ISBN-10	3-330-87912-2 / 3330879122
ISBN-13	978-3-330-87912-6 / 9783330879126
Zustand	Neuware