Evaluation of a School-Based Group Counseling Program for Adolescent Internet Gaming Disorder.

Purpose: We evaluated the outcomes of a school-based group counseling program for adolescent Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). The program aimed to enhance self-regulation, resilience, parent–child attachment, and parental supervision and reduce gaming hours, IGD severity, IGD symptoms, depression, an...

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Publicado en:Research on Social Work Practice Vol. 36; no. 6; pp. 880 - 900
Autores principales: Choo, Hyekyung, Dionela, Celestine Hana T, Low-Lim, Anita
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Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Sep2026
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          Choo, Hyekyung
          Dionela, Celestine Hana T
          Low-Lim, Anita
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          Department of Social Work, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
          Psychological Studies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nayang Technology University, Singapore, Singapore
          TOUCH Community Services, Singapore, Singapore
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        Singapore
        Internet addiction
        High schools
        Parents
        Family conflict
        Evaluation of human services programs
        Parent-child relationships
        Group psychotherapy
        Self-control
        Counseling
        Cognitive therapy
        Psychological tests
        School health services
        Mental depression
        Group process
        Adolescence
        Psychological resilience
        T-test (Statistics)
        Research funding
        Pilot projects
        Chi-squared test
        Analysis of covariance
        Descriptive statistics
        Pre-tests & post-tests
        Research methodology
        Data analysis software
        Regression analysis
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          Internet addiction
          High schools
          Parents
          Family conflict
          Evaluation of human services programs
          Parent-child relationships
          Group psychotherapy
          Self-control
          Counseling
          Cognitive therapy
          Psychological tests
          School health services
          Mental depression
          Group process
          Adolescence
          Singapore
          Other Individual and Family Services
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          T-test (Statistics)
          Research funding
          Pilot projects
          Chi-squared test
          Analysis of covariance
          Descriptive statistics
          Pre-tests & post-tests
          Research methodology
          Data analysis software
          Regression analysis
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        adolescent internet gaming disorder
        CBT
        family intervention
        internet gaming disorder
        treatment of internet gaming disorder
        adolescent internet gaming disorder
        CBT
        family intervention
        internet gaming disorder
        treatment of internet gaming disorder
      ab: Purpose: We evaluated the outcomes of a school-based group counseling program for adolescent Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). The program aimed to enhance self-regulation, resilience, parent–child attachment, and parental supervision and reduce gaming hours, IGD severity, IGD symptoms, depression, and parent–child conflict. Method: In this quasi-experimental study, out of 115 sary school students in Singapore (M= 13.7, SD = 1.56) who reported five or more out of ten IGD symptoms, 61 participated in the intervention and 54 served as a nonintervention group. Results: Repeated Measures ANCOVA revealed that compared with the non-intervention, the program was effective in improving self-regulation (F = 7.84, p =.006), resilience (F = 4.90, p =.03), weekend gaming hours (F = 9.18, p =.003), IGD severity (F = 7.68, p =.007) and depression (F = 14.3, p <.000). Discussion: We suggest that the program improve parental support components while focusing on self-regulation.
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