Gaming Rehab: What Can Wyoming Parents Do Now?

In 2010 the Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed 2,000 children ages 8-18 in 2010 and found children€™s screen time totals an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes per day.  53 hours per week in front of a screen is more than a full-time job and amounts to wasted time they could have been using learning a new skill, taking lessons, reading, or doing homework. 

In general, if a child is unwilling to participate in outpatient therapy, or if outpatient therapy in Wyoming  is just not making the changes you want, we can help. A gaming rehab or video game addiction rehab that is specifically designed for your child’s unique needs is your best path forward.

The next step up from outpatient therapy is a video game rehab.  Video game addiction help provides a €œreset€ on family relationships, but also with the relationship the child has with video games and the internet.  Simply put, the surest way to change a child’s video game habits is to create a total reset with online activity. That€™s where our gaming rehab comes into play.

The group component of video game rehab is what it’s all about.  At Camp Pocono Trails, we engage our campers as part of an interdependent team that works on engineering, science, and problem-solving tasks.  It takes the entire group to overcome the challenge. Interactions become grist for the mill in therapy, and therapists can intervene in real time to develop insight and practice coping skills.

Best of all, campers get socialization practice and learn how to interact with each other in socially appropriate ways.  If your child is socially behind, being bullied, or needs social practice, our gaming rehab is where they should be.

Wyoming Teens Can Find Success at Our Video Game Addiction Help

Internet gaming disorder is a serious issue in Wyoming.  Fortunately, at Camp Pocono Trails we help our campers build motivation by finding replacement activities that are healthy and more productive than mindlessly browsing the internet, watching Youtube, or playing endless hours of video games.

It€™s been our experience that after the initial detox period, campers find replacement activities quickly and can transfer their feelings of success online to an offline world.  Young minds are able to quickly adapt as routines and interests changes- especially if there is peer support helping the teen along.

We€™ve found some unique ways to transfer online skills to the real world.  For example- campers engage in drone races using controllers much like an XBox controller.  The difference is that they are outside, and racing through obstacles as part of a team.

Video Game Addiction Help Program that Serves Wyoming Teens

Located in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, we serve Wyoming teens.  Our 24/7 overnight video game rehab program 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 premier video game rehab program for teens that struggle with digital overuse behaviors including help for internet addiction, family discord, and social problems.  

Our Video Game Addiction Help Program help teens from Wyoming with the following issues:

• Video Game Addiction
• Internet Addiction
• Social Media Addiction
• Cell Phone/Smartphone 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.  

Boys tend to be more susceptible to video game addiction than girls, but any student who is trying to avoid overwhelming stress might be especially drawn to video games. Experts also see a correlation between obsessive video game use and traits associated with autism, attention deficit disorders, anxiety, and depression.  

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.  We give our campers the ability to overcome stressful situations like dealing with bullies at school, a difficult home environment, or social anxiety.

Video Game Addiction Help: Transfer Online Success to Offline Success for Wyoming Teens

Our Pennsylvania based video game rehab helps Wyoming teens who are unable to manage their video game use. It€™s easy to get locked into a pattern of policing electronics. The problem with a policing strategy is that it does nothing to help the child learn how to manage electronic use independently.  If your child is headed to college or independent living soon without the ability to manage their screen activity, you should intervene as soon as possible.

Sometimes it’s just easier for a team of seasoned professionals to address an issue that has become toxic for a parent to address.  Parents and teens can become deadlocked in a disagreement about a video game or internet use. This is where Camp Pocono Trails can help.  We give the teen a format to reinvent themselves in a nonjudgmental, supportive atmosphere with other former gamers.

Who does Camp Pocono Trails help?

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

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: 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.

Camp Pocono Trails helps families from Wyoming

Camp Pocono Trails helps Wyoming families from cities and towns like Evansville Bar Nunn Cheyenne Casper Burns Pine Bluffs