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


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.

SUBMITTER: Billieux J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5700712 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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

Billieux Joël J   King Daniel L DL   Higuchi Susumu S   Achab Sophia S   Bowden-Jones Henrietta H   Hao Wei W   Long Jiang J   Lee Hae Kook HK   Potenza Marc N MN   Saunders John B JB   Poznyak Vladimir V  

Journal of behavioral addictions 20170817 3


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  ...[more]

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