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Gray, Brenna Clarke – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2023
This paper reviews the Digital Detox project at TRU. At TRU, the Digital Detox is not necessarily about abstaining from technology altogether, but rather establishing a more ethical, healthier approach to the tools we are required to use every day. Conceived this way, a Digital Detox offers an approachable opportunity to discuss difficult and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Ethics, Partnerships in Education, Universities
Feng, Siwen – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2022
Smart phones have permeated every part of people's lives in the mobile internet era and are virtually taken for granted on a daily basis. Chinese primary school students are facing a serious problem with mobile gaming addiction as a result of their easy access to cell phones. The excessive usage of mobile games has negative impacts on children's…
Descriptors: Video Games, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Addictive Behavior
Schneller, Peter L.; Kennedy, Jenna; Kennedy, Jessica; Metz, Zackery – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs in United States costs over 740 billion yearly (https://www.drugabuse.gov/relatedtopics/trends-statistics, accessed March 2018). However, statistics like this rarely include the toll that alcohol tobacco, and illegal drugs takes on family members,…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior
Kourgiantakis, Toula; Sewell, Karen M.; Lee, Eunjung; Adamson, Keith; McCormick, Megan; Kuehl, Dale; Bogo, Marion – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Social workers play a critical role in assessing and treating individuals and families with mental health and addiction concerns. Although social workers are key professionals in the mental health workforce, there are gaps in the training and education of mental health, addictions, and suicide, and many students are inadequately prepared for field…
Descriptors: Social Work, Mental Health, Addictive Behavior, Suicide
Spring, Lauren; Smith, Melissa; DaSilva, Maureen – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
Consciousness-raising practices at the heart of feminism remain one of the most vital components of transformative learning theory and provide the foundation for its constructivist underpinnings. Recently, there has been a call for educators to employ consciousness-raising practices outside of traditional classroom settings and to focus greater…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Transformative Learning, Feminism, Arts Centers
Doyle, Patricia – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2017
The RECOVEU project is an effort to conceive of a quality-learning programme with equity for adult learners in recovery. It emerged in the context of European recommendations that member states support recovering users to access education in order to improve their chances of achieving social integration. However, by privileging the voices of those…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Social Integration, Access to Education, Addictive Behavior
Romano, John L. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
This paper explores the science of prevention, with special attention to prevention research and applications in education and psychology, and the importance of prevention in Asian countries. One example that will be highlighted is the recently adopted Korean government policy on Internet addiction which addresses the problem from prevention to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prevention, Internet, Addictive Behavior
Binde, Per – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
Mutual support societies for problem gamblers have existed in Sweden for 20 years. They have helped more people with gambling problems than any other institution inside or outside the Swedish health care system. This paper outlines the background of these societies and describes the meetings of one of them. Data come from interviews with members…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Games, Probability
Binde, Per – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
A Swedish mutual support group for young problem gamblers is described and discussed. During the study period, 116 weekly meetings occurred, usually involving six to ten participants; in total, 69 problem gamblers (66 male and three female), aged 17-25, and 23 partners and friends attended the meetings. Half the gamblers had problems with Internet…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Social Support Groups, Behavior Disorders
Gregory, Deidre – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2013
Canada's Aboriginal people connect history to their loss of identity, grounded in Nation based languages and beliefs. Recovering from colonization requires healing wounds that festered during residential school and the 60's scoop. Treating family violence and addictions is more than an individual reality for many of today's Aboriginals. It is a…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Trauma, Psychological Patterns
Stephens, Gregory – CEA Forum, 2016
This essay develops a theory of "digital liminality" as a way to analyze the role of technology in the classroom and in students' lives. It is also a report on the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom as a site of intercultural exchange between instructors and Muslim students. The role of digital media in higher education was a…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Merga, Margaret K.; Williams, Ross – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2016
Contemporary health educators in schools are responsible for promoting the health of individual students, as well as a healthy school environment. The ongoing push for increasing device use in schools, which is underpinned by the information and communications technology (ICT) capability requirements of the new Australian Curriculum, can…
Descriptors: Health Education, Teacher Role, Risk Management, Health Promotion
Zhang, Wenli; Everts, Hans – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
Ethnic Chinese migrants in a country like New Zealand face a range of well-documented challenges. A proportion of such migrants find that recreational gambling turns into a pernicious gambling problem. This issue is addressed through illustrated case studies of Interactive Drawing Therapy, a drawing-based modality of therapy that facilitates…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Therapy, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
Dyall, Lorna; Hawke, Zoe; Herd, Ruth; Nahi, Papa – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2012
Housework, those duties done at home or in one's community to keep and clean and tidy, is used in this paper as a metaphor for Maori involvement in gambling public health action in New Zealand. For over a decade Maori have been developing their own voice, public health actions, gambling services, research and workforce development initiatives to…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Public Health, Addictive Behavior, Figurative Language
el-Guebaly, Nady; Crockford, David; Cirone, Sharon; Kahan, Meldon – Substance Abuse, 2011
In Canada, the qualification of physicians is the jurisdiction of the College of Family Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. The Colleges have promoted the training of "generalists" in family medicine and "sophisticated generalists" among the traditional specialties, and the development of subspecialties…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Substance Abuse, Physicians, Psychiatry
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