Citation

Keepers GA. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1990; 29(1): 49-50.

Affiliation

Inpatient Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2295578

Abstract

Controversy continues concerning the harmfulness of video game use by children. The author encountered clearly pathological preoccupation with video games in a preadolescent. The child had stolen, forged checks, and skipped school to continue using video games. He and his mother were physically abused by his father. Placement of the child in a residential treatment center with martial and family therapy resulted in resolution of the patient's pathological use of video games.

Language: en