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Functional impairment matters in the screening and diagnosis of gaming disorder
Functional impairment matters in the screening and diagnosis of gaming disorder

Author(s): Joël Billieux, Daniel King, Susumu Higuchi, Sophia Achab, Henrieta Bowden-Jones, Hao Wei, Jiang Long, Hae Kook Lee, Marc N. Potenza, John B. Saunders, Vladimir Poznyak
Subject(s): Behaviorism, Substance abuse and addiction, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Internet gaming disorder; ICD-11; IGD; gaming disorder; diagnosis; functional impairment;

Summary/Abstract: This commentary responds to Aarseth et al.’s (in press) criticisms that the ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal would result in “moral panics around the harm of video gaming” and “the treatment of abundant false-positive cases.” The ICD-11 Gaming Disorder avoids potential “overpathologizing” with its explicit reference to functional impairment caused by gaming and therefore improves upon a number of flawed previous approaches to identifying cases with suspected gaming-related harms. We contend that moral panics are more likely to occur and be exacerbated by misinformation and lack of understanding, rather than proceed from having a clear diagnostic system.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 285-289
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English