BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS: CRITERIA, EVIDENCE AND TREATMENT
Written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Laura Curtiss Feder
Published by Academic Press
in 2014
ISBN: 9780124077249
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BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS: CRITERIA, EVIDENCE AND TREATMENT
Written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Laura Curtiss Feder.
Stock no. 2137271
1st.
2014.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Behavioral addictions was a term recently introduced by the DMS-5. There is ongoing debate over when a behavior represents an addition and which types of behaviours might fall into this category. This book focuses on addictions that currently have the most research support, including behaviors relating to gambing, the Internet, food, sex, shopping, and exercise. Glazed pictorial boards. xxxi and 381 pages including index. ISBN: 9780124077249. A nice, clean copy.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. An Introduction to Behavioral Addictions
- 2. Behavioral Addiction: The Nexus of Impulsivity and Compulsivity
- 3. Diagnosis and Treatment of Gambling Disorder
- 4. Problematic Online Gaming
- 5. Internet Addiction Disorder: Overview and Controversies
- 6. Social Networking Addiction: An Overview of Preliminary Findings
- 7. Food Addiction: Evidence, Evaluation, and Treatment
- 8. New Directions in the Pharmacological Treatment of Food Addiction, Overeating, and Obesity
- 9. Sex Addiction: An Overview
- 10. The Tyranny of Love: Love Addiction - An Anthropologist's View
- 11. Picking Up the Pieces: Helping Partners and Family Members Survive the Impact of Sex Addiction
- 12. Compulsive Buying Disorder
- 13. Exercise Addiction
- 14. Meditation and Spirituality-Based Approaches for Addiction
- 15. Behavioral Addiction in American Law: The Future and the Expert's Role