When: Thursday, November 20 · 1 - 2:30pm AST
What: Understanding Video Games: A Therapist's Call of Duty
Cost: FREE!
Who: Root Center for Advanced Recovery
How: Register here
About:
"Our November 2025 Clinical Grand Rounds will be on "Understanding Video Games: A Therapist's Call of Duty" and will be presented by Paul Weigle, MD. These presentations are free and open to the public.
Paul is an Associate Medical Director for Natchaug Hospital at the University of Connecticut Medical School.
Synopsis/Objectives:
Daily gaming among youth have rapidly escalated in recent years. American youth average over 3 hours each day playing video games, as a part of over nine hours per day of entertainment screen media. Scientific research and clinical experience confirms that a significant minority of boys suffer from a behavioral addiction to video games, and reveals epidemiology, comorbidity, and effects on parameters of mental health, academic achievement, behavior, and sleep. Although challenging, mental health providers can identify and effectively treat affected youth.
Participants will be able to:
- Appreciate the extent of gaming habits in the lives of American youth.
- Differentiate normal gaming from overuse and overuse from gaming disorder
- Summarize research regarding the epidemiology of gaming disorder including risks factors, comorbidity, and outcomes.
- Be able to prevent and treat gaming disorder, including help families establish and sustain healthy gaming habits."