Internet Gaming Disorder Treatment For Teens From Montana

Gaming Disorder Treatment Center that Serves Montana Teens

Located in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, we serve Montana teens.  Our Gaming Disorder Treatment Center is a viable solution for families seeking the very best option for their teen who overuses video games and related online habits (excessive Youtube watching, online pornography, social media).  

At Camp Pocono Trails, we help teens learn how to live life in balance.  We are the premiere behavior change therapeutic program for teens that struggle with digital overuse behaviors including help for internet addiction, family discord, and social problems.  

Our Gaming Disorder Treatment Center helps teens from Montana with the following issues:

  • Video Game Addiction
  • Social Media Addiction
  • Cell Phone/Smartphone Addiction
  • Internet Addiction
  • Related issues including problems making friends, social shyness, poor academic performance, and more.

Our highly qualified staff focus only on video game rehab issues.  We don’t accept teens with psychosis or higher level issues. In fact, many of our campers are quite bright with promising futures.  Any student enrolled at Camp Pocono Trails must have an intellectual capacity in the average range or higher. This is because our help is oriented toward building insight.  

Participants engage in group and individual therapy to self-reflect and build insight.  But the help doesn’t stop there. We help young people find practical coping skills to align their daily routine with their long-term goals.  It’s not enough to acknowledge you have a problem- although that is a good starting place. Campers at our video game rehab program also leave with the skills and tools to be successful well beyond the structure of Camp Pocono Trails.

Video Game Addiction Individual and Group Therapy for Montana Teens at Camp Pocono Trails

Teens at our Gaming Disorder Treatment Center receive individual and group therapy for video game addiction and internet overuse habits. We have licensed therapists helping teens develop insight and commit to new routines in life.

We also have family therapy sessions where we help parents best support their teen upon their transition home from Camp Pocono Trails.  We discuss in family sessions how parents can reinforce positive feelings when a child sticks to their behavioral contract and we also encourage parents to reinforce negative feelings when the child fails to live up to behavioral expectations.

If your child meets behavioral goals for the week, a small reward is in order such as choosing a restaurant to eat at the following weekend or maybe spending extra time with mom or day doing their favorite activity like fishing.  Monthly goals being met might warrant a special night out or even a monetary reward. Each family should decide what is right for them and give the child something to work for.

Conversely, if a student does not meet their goal expectations, feeling a bit down about their failures is okay.  In fact, it’s encouraged. This is how people naturally change- they move from a place of discomfort to comfort. It™s just as critical that if your child fails to meet their goals you discuss with them what happened and how they can improve.  Taking an, œit’s okay you™ll just get it next time approach is not the best way to change behaviors.

Gaming Disorder Treatment Center: Individual Therapy for Montana Teens

At Camp Pocono Trails, we support individual therapy.  We can work in tandem with therapists back home in Montana to ensure a smooth continuity of care.  We also recommend our families engage in family therapy sessions while your child is in attendance.  This is done during workshop weekends. 

However, sometimes a teen just needs a higher level of help than outpatient therapy can provide.  For outpatient therapy to be effective, the student needs to engage with the therapist. For example, most behavioral therapists have the student journal or track behaviors in order to change behaviors.  

If a student is unwilling to do these most basic components of help, parents should look at going up to the next level of intervention.  This can be a help center like Camp Pocono Trails which specializes in video game addiction help.

Military boarding schools or short-term options like camps for video game addiction help should be avoided.  Change takes time, and a punitive approach can result in a child pushing back against authority.

If Your Montana  Need Only Feels Successful Online, Now is the Time for Help

Consider the cost of doing nothing.  If you send your child off to college not prepared to deal with unstructured time, how likely will they be in the 50% that fail to graduate college?  Consider the cost of wasted tuition, wasted time, and the cost of supporting your child back at home if they fail to thrive. Investing in Camp Pocono Trails is insignificant compared to the cost of failure.  

Best of all, we teach managing screen time in an actual school atmosphere.  Your child will be engaging in nature activities, sports, arts, and so much more.  There is no better setting to prepare a child for the independence to live successfully after high school.

Now is the time for action.  If your teen is having negative interactions with others in school and missing out on social interactions, the window of opportunity is fast closing.  At Camp Pocono Trails, we can provide those corrective experiences your child needs to put them on the right path in life.

Who does Camp Pocono Trails help?

Camp Pocono Trails helps teens struggling with issues similar to those below:
– Family Conflict
– Anxiety
– Trauma
– ADHD
– Addictive Behaviors
– Social Anxiety Disorder
– Social isolation
– Autism Spectrum
– Social isolation
– School Refusal
– Low Self Esteem
– Poor Communication Skills
– Social Issues
– Depression
– Video game addiction
– Impulse Control

Resources

Internet Gaming Disorder Resource: Online Controls

Ultimately, developing a child’s ability to self-manage their use of technology for entertainment should be the primary focus.  We can help with this at our Gaming Disorder Treatment Center. However, if you are ready to try some lower level interventions, here are some resources to help guide you:

Focus Me: https://focusme.com/

FocusMe is the most powerful App and Website Blocker for Windows, Mac & Android.

StayFocused: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankejkbhbdhmipfmgcngdelahlfoji?hl=en

StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites.

Internet Gaming Disorder Resource: Setting up Controls on Your Apple Computer and Phone

Apple brand products offer some of the best and hardest to œget around controls for parents.

You can learn how to set up parental controls for Apple products here: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph18571?locale=en_US

As a parent, you want your kids to have a safe and happy experience on the Mac. Using Parental Controls preferences, you can manage, monitor, and control the time your kids spend on the Mac, the websites they visit, and the people they chat with.  After you set restrictions for a child using a Mac, you can manage parental controls from a different Mac. Both computers must be on the same network.

At our Gaming Disorder Treatment Center, parents learn how to structure their child’s device to ensure success.  

Camp Pocono Trails helps families from Montana

Camp Pocono Trails helps Montana families from cities and towns like Bigfork Whitefish Bonner Condon Bozeman Huson Orchard Homes Frenchtown Huntley Shepherd