Video Game Addiction Help: Individual Therapy for Tennessee Teens

At Camp Pocono Trails, we support individual therapy at our video game rehab program.  We can work in tandem with therapists back home in Tennessee to ensure 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 Tennessee  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 of life 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.

Looking for Video Game Addiction Help in Tennessee?

Our Video Game Addiction Help is located in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania and serves teens from Tennessee, in addition to teens from across the US.  While the length of help varies, we do not believe that substantial change can be achieved in a few short weeks. Campers typically attend our video game rehab for a full session (four weeks) or longer. 

The effects of playing violent video games on the mental health of children and adolescents have been of great concern to researchers, health professionals, and public policymakers for years.  Based on the overwhelming scientific evidence, several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, have issued a policy statement on media violence warning about the risks posed by violent video game content not only for its addictive qualities but for the risk of desensitization to violence and the relationship screen activity has with depression.

Video game addiction help is uncharted territory for most parents.  Parents today are tasked with raising the very first generation of teenagers immersed in a world of technology.  Screens are everywhere- teens bring internet-connected smartphones to school and often have access to games on the bus, in class, in the lunchroom, and back home again until mom or dad return from work.  For most families, gaming addiction is an issue that requires high levels of intervention.

The focus at our video game rehab 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 with life beyond high school.  Internet gaming addiction and excessive use of screen time technologies is a behavioral problem that has been classified and explained in numerous ways.

Camp Pocono Trails Provides Help for Tennessee Teens With Real Solutions

At Camp Pocono Trails, therapists, nutritionists, counselors, instructors, nursing, and activity staff all work together as a multidisciplinary team to help your child.  Multidisciplinary care happens when professionals from a range of disciplines work together to deliver comprehensive care that addresses as many of the camper’s needs as possible.

Our video game rehab uses a range of professionals functioning as a team under one organizational umbrella. As a student’s condition changes over time, the composition of the team may change to reflect the changing clinical and psychosocial needs of the student.

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.

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

Video Game Addiction Help Resource: Smartphone and Tablet Resources

Kids are becoming increasingly tech-savvy these days.  It€™s hard for us as parents to keep up. At Camp Pocono Trails we€™ve heard 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 Help Resource: Steam Limits

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-9918To 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