Cognitive behavioral therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy moves from the assumption that “the thoughts that the individual say to himself considerably affect
how the individual feels and how he will behave in a situation. The therapist who implements the cognitive behavioral therapy has two
purposes; 1) to learn the individual’s negative feelings and thoughts about himself in a situation and 2) to turn the individual from
negative thoughts and to replace more positive thoughts in the negative ones [44]. Therapy consists of sessions of 3 months approximately
12 weeks. Cognitive Behavioral therapy is one of the treatment steps of game addiction.
[13]. Therapy lasts for 8-28 sessions. The methods of intervention are;
• Joining is the process of connecting to each member of the family. And Joining has three special types. These are tracking,
accommodation and mimesis.
• Diagnosis [13] or activating family transaction patterns.
• Restructuring [13] or restructuring the family transaction patterns [40-42].
Keepers [43] analyzed a 12 year old video game addict boy. He plays games 4-5 hours a day, he goes to game arcades to play and spend
some 30-50 dollars a day there, he steals when he has no money, he skips school and makes friend with other boys playing video games.
In the treatment it was determined that the boy had problems with his father, the father physically abused the boy as was the mother
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and he pathologically played video games to escape from these problems, and he was enabled to get rid of the pathology through family
therapy [38].