Behavioral Addictions
Criteria, Evidence, and Treatment
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Description
Key Features
- A guide to understanding the new DSM-V designation of behavioral addiction
- Defines the criteria for behavior to be considered an addiction designation
- Discusses the evidence for behaviors meeting addiction criteria
- Identifies what is now, likely will be, and is not a behavioral addiction per evidence
- Discusses behaviors formerly considered impulse control disorders
- Presents evidence-based treatment for each behavioral addiction
Readership
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Biography
List of Contributors
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Behavioral Addictions
The History of Behavioral Addictions
Defining and Determining Criteria for a Behavioral Addiction
Theories and Evidence in Support of Behavioral Addictions
Guiding Principles for the Treatment of Behavioral Addictions
Societal and Legal Issues
Chapter 2. Behavioral Addiction: The Nexus of Impulsivity and Compulsivity
Introduction
Impulsivity and Compulsivity: What’s it All About?
How do Impulsivity and Compulsivity Relate?
From Impulsivity to Compulsivity in Substance Use Disorder
Behavioral Addiction: on the Border between Impulsivity and Compulsivity
Kleptomania Behavior
An ABC Model to Assess and Manage Compulsive-Impulsive Disorders
Conclusions
Chapter 3. Diagnosis and Treatment of Gambling Disorder
Introduction
Clinical Characteristics
Clinical Assessment
Screening/Diagnostic Instruments
Treatment Options
Psychotherapy
Pharmacotherapy
Conclusions
Chapter 4. Problematic Online Gaming
History and Typology of Online Games
Defining Problematic Online Gaming
Symptomatology and Consequences
Assessment
Epidemiology
Etiology
Prevention and Treatment
Chapter 5. Internet Addiction Disorder: Overview and Controversies
Introduction: Internet Addiction Disorder and its Treatment
Diagnosis and Clinical Criteria
Assessment of Internet Addiction
Prevalence Rates
Psychiatric Comorbidity
Relationship of Internet Addiction with Drug and Alcohol Use
The Phenomenology of Internet Addiction
Personality and Psychosocial Factors Associated with IAD
Cognitive Factors Associated with Problematic Internet Use
Physical and Mental Health Hazards
Treatment
Conclusions
Declaration of Interest
Chapter 6. Social Networking Addiction: An Overview of Preliminary Findings
Brief History of Social Networking
Etiology and Theories of Social Networking Addiction
Epidemiology: Empirical Studies of Social Networking Addiction
Prevention and Treatment of Social Networking Addiction
Conclusions
Chapter 7. Food Addiction: Evidence, Evaluation, and Treatment
Introduction
Criteria and definition
Epidemiology
Evidence for food addiction
Treatment
Prevention: Public Health and Policy Implications
Conclusion
Chapter 8. New Directions in the Pharmacological Treatment of Food Addiction, Overeating, and Obesity
Introduction
The Drive to Overeat
Food Addiction
Reward Deficiency Syndrome
Food Reward System
Surgical Treatments of Obesity
Pharmacotherapies for Treatment of Obesity and Food Addiction
In the Pipeline
FDA-Approved Medications that do not have FDA Indications for Weight Loss
Treatment Approach Based on the Drug Abuse Model
Conclusion
Chapter 9. Sex Addiction: An Overview
Historical Context
Prevalence
SA-Related Diagnoses in the ICD and DSM
Screening Instruments for SA
Cybersex
Comorbidity in SA-Related Disorders
Addiction Interaction Disorder
The Possible Neuroscience of SA
Treatment of Sex Addiction
Summary
Chapter 10. The Tyranny of Love: Love Addiction—An Anthropologist’s View
Romantic Love as a Positive Addiction
Romantic Rejection as a Negative Addiction
Evolution of Romantic Addictions
Infidelity Intensifies Rejection Addiction
Divorce Intensifies Rejection Addiction
Biopsychological Consequences of Rejection
Personality and Love Addictions
Implications for Treatment
Conclusion
Chapter 11. Picking Up the Pieces: Helping Partners and Family Members Survive the Impact of Sex Addiction
Treating Partners of Sex Addicts: Clinical Implications
Staggered Disclosure as a Trauma to the Partner
Treatment for the Partner
Impact of Sex Addiction on Children
Chapter 12. Compulsive Buying Disorder
Introduction
Diagnostic Criteria of Compulsive Buying Disorder
Epidemiology of Compulsive Buying Disorder
Comorbidity
Treatment
Next Steps and Further Research
Chapter 13. Exercise Addiction
The History of Exercise Addiction
Definition and Diagnosis
Assessment
Epidemiology
Comorbidity
Etiology
Treatment
Chapter 14. Meditation and Spirituality-Based Approaches for Addiction
Introduction
Lessons from Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-Step Facilitation
Yoga and Addiction
Mindfulness-Based Meditation
Transcendental Meditation (TM)
Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY)
How does Meditation/SKY Work?
Conclusion
Chapter 15. Behavioral Addiction in American Law: The Future and the Expert’s Role
Introduction
Behavioral Addiction in the Law of the United States - Legal Issues in Which Behavioral Addiction may be Considered
Pitfalls for the Expert Witness
Conclusions
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 416
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: February 17, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780124078581
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780124077249
About the Editors
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Dr. Rosenberg is a contributing editor of the Journal of Sex Therapy, the author of scientific and lay articles, listed among the Best Doctors® in America and New York Magazine’s Best Doctors, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the recipient of medical and public service awards from the American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association and the Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Since medical school, Dr. Rosenberg has produced and directed films that have been aired on HBO and PBS affiliates and have been recognized by the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences, the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Museum of Natural History and numerous film festivals. He is a recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award. His films include An Alzheimer’s Story (coproducer/director, PBS affiliates 1985), Through Madness: The Subjective Experience of Psychosis (producer/director, PBS Affiliates, 1991) Why Am I Gay?: Stories of Coming Out in America, (producer/director, HBO, 1993) Back From Madness (producer/director, HBO.1996), Drinking Apart: Families Living Under the Influence, (producer/director/cinematographer, HBO, 2000) and Cancer (executive producer, HBO,2000) and in producing a current HBO-commissioned project on mental illness in America. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742255/
Affiliations and Expertise
Laura Curtiss Feder
Dr. Feder completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the William Alanson White Institute where she also continues to receive specialized training in working with eating disorders, compulsions and addictions. She has written and presented at professional conferences on the topics of substance abuse, psychological symptoms related to dermatological conditions, camp-based leadership programs and psychotherapy with artists.
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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Marwa K. Fri Nov 12 2021
Behavioral addictions
A good book with excellent scientific content.
DarenBritt Mon Jun 17 2019
Behavioural Addictions
A detailed and interesting engagement with a contentious and challenging subject. Ostensibly informed from a medical perspective the book would benefit from a critical exploration of addiction as a construction and a phenomena of late (neo-liberal) capitalism. This is an important text for those immersed within the medical orthodoxy and for those who wish to use it as a springboard to criticise such orthodoxy.
Kirsten D. Fri Mar 16 2018
Behavioral Addictions
This book was an insightful read.