Contents:
- Medical Video: Why You Can Focus on Video Games (and How to Hack it)
- Relationship to video games and ADHD in children
- Actually, this is a vicious circle
- How should parents behave?
Medical Video: Why You Can Focus on Video Games (and How to Hack it)
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 in 10 children aged between 15-17 years are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a behavioral disorder that makes children behave impulsively (not thinking long before acting), hyperactivity, until it is difficult to communicate with other people. So far, it cannot be ascertained what causes ADHD. However, some say they play too often video game can trigger ADHD in children. Is that true?
Relationship to video games and ADHD in children
David Anderson, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute explained that until now there is no strong evidence that can ensure that addictions play video game can cause ADHD in children. However, children who like to play video game high risk of developing ADHD symptoms a few years later.
Play any game, including video game, indeed requires high skill and focus. This is what sometimes unconsciously triggers changes in the child's brain, so that the game as if present in real life.
"A child who has ADHD is generally easily bored and lost focus on something that is being practiced," said David Anderson further. Indirectly, the child may overflow things he cannot achieve in his play, into everyday life. This includes how to behave and communicate with other people.
This is also reinforced by the results of a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). According to Adam Leventhal, Ph.D., as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Southern California, children are big fans gadgetanything at risk is twice as likely to experience ADHD later in life. Especially children who like to play games - whether it's that the game console, the game on the computer, or online game that is on HP.
Actually, this is a vicious circle
Effects of playing addictionthe game not only at risk for children without ADHD. The condition of a child who has previously been diagnosed as having ADHD can be even worse, when the frequency of playing videosthe gameit's not controlled.
In contrast to their peers, ADHD in children will make it problematic with attention. They tend to be difficult to focus their own thoughts.
Compared to when studying in a class that only relies on the voice of the teacher, the mind of a child with ADHD is much easier to focus on when concentrating on winning a game. Because the game also involves various special effects such as help from music, lighting, and visuals that look interesting.
This sensation will become even more intense when the child's efforts bear good fruit because they have won their favorite game. Conversely, defeat in the game can actually make the child lose focus and vent it through action with other people in the environment. This is usually because children who have ADHD still have to practice controlling their attention.
In fact, a study conducted by Douglas A. Gentile, Ph.D. in Singapore concluded that games with a high level of difficulty can make a child easy to act at will and have difficulty concentrating.
Easily, it can be said that all of these conditions are likened to "vicious circles" that are related to each other. ADHD is at risk for normal children who are addicted to playing video the game, and children who have ADHD tend to be addicted to playing video game.
How should parents behave?
Actually it's okay to let children play video game, because the child's motoric, thinking and emotional abilities will be trained. "However, of course doing anything in excess can bring adverse effects that you do not expect," said Dr. Eugene Arnold, child psychiatrist at Ohio State University, United States.
As a solution, give limits to the child's habits while playing video game. Don't hesitate to say, "You can play, but just one hour, huh!"
Initially it might be quite difficult to implement this, not even the child will often not seem to accept the rules you give.
If this happens, try to give understanding to the child or invite him to discuss and make joint decisions. At the very least, give a pause in between busy playing the game and don't let this habit continue every day without stopping.
