Online Gaming Help for Teens From Tennessee

Online Gaming Help: Therapy for Tennessee Teens

Based in Pennsylvania, Camp Pocono Trails is a summer camp for video game addiction that offers individual and group therapy.  We can work in tandem with therapists back home in Tennessee 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. 

Our summer camp for video game addiction is based on a harm reduction model of help.  We don™t believe it’s realistic to just write off screens totally, nor is that a practical solution for anyone in today™s environment. 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.

Using Maslow™s hierarchy of needs, we first focus on esteem needs.  This has to do with developing concern with getting recognition, status, importance, and respect from others. All humans have a need to feel respected; this includes the need to have self-esteem and self-respect. Esteem presents the typical human desire to be accepted and valued by others.

People often engage in a profession or hobby to gain recognition. But with the online world, recognition for being the best at a video game can interfere with other areas of life like schoolwork or socialization.  Our summer camp for video game addiction introduces activities give the student a sense of contribution or value. Low self-esteem or an inferiority complex may result from imbalances during this level in the hierarchy.

People with low self-esteem often need respect from others; they may feel the need to seek fame or glory. However, fame or glory will not help the person to build their self-esteem until they accept who they are internally. Psychological imbalances such as depression can hinder the person from obtaining a higher level of self-esteem or self-respect.

 

Looking for Online Gaming Help in Tennessee?

Our program is located in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania and serves teens from Tennessee, in addition to teens from across the US.  Campers typically attend our Residential Treatment Center for video game addiction for a school semester or longer. 

Our focus is to help young people learn how to live in tandem with video games, cell phones (smartphones), and other digital devices so that they can be successful in life beyond high school.  At our summer camp for video game addiction, we start out by providing a technology-free environment and slowly reintroduce campers to smartphones and the internet.  We work on social skills, academic skills, anger management, and developing structure before the technology is reintroduced.

We also provide a family component to set the child up for success.  Parents participate in family therapy sessions with their child’s assigned counselor while at Camp Pocono Trails.  We also teach parents how to best support their child at home.

Our professional staff includes therapists, teachers, and program specialists.  Based in a home-like setting, we help teenagers develop the motivation and drive to reinvent their lives and set goals for life after high school.

While not the primary focus of the program, we can teach parents how to set controls to limit game time.  Parents need to be careful to avoid a limiting-only approach. Limiting game time needs to be done in conjunction with developing the motivation to pursue other activities as well.

At our summer camps for video game addiction, we help Tennessee families prepare the home for the student’s transition back.  Ensuring your child’s success back at home and for life after their teen years is our top priority.

Who does Camp Pocono Trails help?

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

Resources

Smartphone and Tablet Resources for Video Game Addiction

Kids are becoming increasingly tech savvy these days.  It™s hard for us as parents to keep up. At Camp Pocono Trails we’ve hear it all – campers bypassing routers, logging on to friend™s routers next door, creating proxies, you name it and we’ve heard it!

Here are some resources specifically for smartphones and tablets.  These devices are especially problematic for parents because they are portable and you can™t just block them through your router if your child is connecting at school or a friend™s house:


Android Devices: https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/google-android/android-parental-controls-3461359/


Apple Products: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304


Google Play Store: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1075738?hl=en

Video Game Addiction: First Steps

Many gamers that come to Camp Pocono Trails use a Steam account to manage their game settings.  Here is a comprehensive guide for parents to manage your child’s Steam account.

Steam: Setting up Family View


We encourage you to create a Steam account with your child. If there are features of Steam that you would like to exclude from the experience, you can restrict access using Family View. You may also choose to enable Family View on your own Steam account if you would rather they share your Steam Account.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5149-EOPC-9918


To enable Family View:

  • Log into the Steam account your child will use.
  • Click the Steam menu in the top menu bar.
  • Open the Settings option.
  • Go to the “Family” tab on the left side of the window that opens.
  • Click œFamily View to start the Family View wizard.
  • Step through the wizard to select the content and features you™d like to be accessible while in PIN-protected Family View.
  • Select and confirm your new PIN.

With any gaming company, we recommend you check game ratings and actually have your child demonstrate the game before allowing any unsupervised play.  You can also go on Youtube to watch a game œwalk through to see how violence and adult themes are portrayed.

Camp Pocono Trails helps families from Tennessee

Camp Pocono Trails helps Tennessee families from cities and towns like Belle Meade Forest Hills Oak Hill Brentwood Lookout Mountain Arrington Franklin College Grove Walden Nolensville