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Combatting Digital Addiction: Current Approaches And Future Directions, Deniz Cemiloglu, Mohamed Basel Almourad, John Mcalaney, Raian Ali
Combatting Digital Addiction: Current Approaches And Future Directions, Deniz Cemiloglu, Mohamed Basel Almourad, John Mcalaney, Raian Ali
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In recent years, the notion of digital addiction has become popular. Calls for solutions to combat it, especially in adolescents, are on the rise. Whilst there remains debate on the status of this phenomenon as a diagnosable mental health condition; there is a need for prevention and intervention approaches that encourage individuals to have more control over their digital usage. This narrative review examines digital addiction countermeasures proposed in the last ten years. By countermeasures, we mean strategies and techniques for prevention, harm reduction, and intervention towards addictive digital behaviours. We include studies published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and …