Online Gaming Help for Teens From Texas

Online Gaming Help: A Place for Texas Families to Start

Many parents that enroll their child at Camp Pocono Trails try in-home interventions first.  It’s important for families to remember that policing screen activity alone is not a permanent solution.  One day, your teen will be out on their own and they won’t have you around to monitor or limit their video game or screen activity.  Teens need to first understand the harm that they are causing by ignoring other areas of social and emotional growth. 

Once a teen understands the harm video game addiction is having on their life, they can make the decision to change.  You can help your teen understand the effect video games have by requiring them to start self-monitoring their video game usage.  Set up a weekly goal to keep their playtime under a certain limit they agree on.

However, if gaming is an ongoing source of tension in your family, you may be beyond the stage of trying an in-home intervention.  If any attempt to curb your teen™s video game use or cellphone/computer use results in a heated argument, please give us a call today.

Texas Teens Can Find Success at Our Video Game Addiction Treatment Center

Texas teens often struggle with internet gaming disorder, and our Pennsylvania-based summer camp can help.  Sometimes when teens spend more time looking at screens than interacting with others, they become socially awkward. Social opportunities like going to school dances become anxiety provoking.  

Falling behind socially can lead to depression, being victimized by bullies, and having a hard time making friends.  Part of our help process is catching campers back up on social skills they may have missed out on due to excessive gaming.

Finding success also means building motivation to pursue meaningful life pursuits.  Building motivation is fun! We use systematic self-monitoring techniques to guide campers to better habits that also build motivation.  Systematic self-monitoring is just a fancy term for carefully planning your daily behaviors, in addition to setting up support plans to ensure planned behaviors are executed.

Campers set themselves up for college success or life beyond high school by building the life skills they need to be successful on their own.

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.

Residential Treatment Provides Help for Texas Teens With Real Solutions

Based in Pennsylvania, our therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, teachers, nursing and activity staff all work together as a multidisciplinary team to help your child.  By participating in a positive peer culture, campers learn how to socialize appropriately and interact in the real world without the use of screens. Over time we will reintroduce your student to screens in a slow, systematic manner.  

Working with parents is critical for any summer camp for video game addiction. A licensed therapist is assigned to each family who will provide information on how to manage your screen activity as a role model back home.  

We also address the family system so that old habits don’t come back when the child is discharged.  Parents learn how to effectively guide their children when they get off track, and how to support their child’s commitment to change.  Helping teens develop long-term goals that the family can support is an important part of the process.

Online Gaming Help that Helps Texas Teens

Effective video game addiction help requires treating co-occurring issues concurrently.  Often, we find an underlying depression or self-doubt about the future. Focusing on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs paradigm, we help Camp Pocono Trails campers find safety and security first by showing them how to interact positively with others, how to make and keep friends, and how to stand up to others when being bullied.  

Frequently, we’ve found that the typical Camp Pocono Trails student started excessive online habits when they began to feel more successful online than offline.  This can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as campers lose social practice by spending more and more time online and losing opportunities to engage in face-to-face social interaction.

As a result, it’s not uncommon for a teen to lose the feeling of safety and security when walking the halls in high school.  This can lead to a snowball effect and only encourages the student to fall deeper into online habits. At Camp Pocono Trails, we can reverse these feelings of social insecurity by teaching concrete skills to interact and socialize with others appropriately.  

Our Pennsylvania based program helps teens from Texas and can provide academic opportunities to ensure your child does not fall behind in school.  Campers at Camp Pocono Trails that undergo residential help for video game addiction are put into small classes where they won’t get lost or fall behind.  

Often, academics fall behind when a student needs online addiction help.  The problem is that it is almost impossible to totally avoid using the internet as a student today.  At Camp Pocono Trails, we help campers develop the self-regulation skills to use the internet productively and to reduce the potential harm of violent, time-wasting, or pornographic content.

Who does Camp Pocono Trails help?

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

Resources

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.

Online Gaming Help: Online Resources

TechAddiction.com

TechAddiction is committed to providing helpful, informative, and high quality links to services and individuals who provide help for or information on internet and video game addiction.

Reaching out to your local therapy network may also provide the solution you seek.  However, if you™ve already tried therapy and you didn™t get the results you wanted, or if your child refuses to go to therapy, Camp Pocono Trails may be exactly what you are looking for.

You can also reach out to your insurance company and see if they cover group or individual therapy, or if they cover summer camps like Camp Pocono Trails.

Camp Pocono Trails Helps Texas Families From Cities Such As:

Some examples of cities from Texas which may have families who could use Camp Pocono Trails: Houston San Antonio Dallas Austin Fort Worth El Paso Arlington Corpus Christi Plano Laredo Lubbock Garland Irving Amarillo Grand Prairie Brownsville McKinney Pasadena Frisco Mesquite McAllen Killeen Waco Carrollton Denton Midland Abilene Beaumont Odessa Round Rock Richardson Wichita Falls College Station Pearland Lewisville Tyler San Angelo League Allen Sugar Land Edinburg Mission Longview Bryan Baytown Pharr Missouri Temple Flower Mound town North Richland Hills New Braunfels Victoria Harlingen Conroe Cedar Park Mansfield Georgetown San Marcos Rowlett Pflugerville Port Arthur Euless DeSoto Grapevine