Contemporary Issues: Cyber Addiction in Adolescents and Solutions

This research paper delves into the contemporary issue of cyber addiction among adolescents, examining its causes, symptoms, and effects on their mental health and social development. It highlights the pervasive influence of social media and internet usage, leading to potential problems such as cyberbullying, exposure to inappropriate content, and detachment from real-world interactions. The report emphasizes the importance of assessing the extent of cyber addiction through effective communication and ethical considerations, including parental involvement. Furthermore, it suggests various support options for adolescents, including family therapy, group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and other therapeutic approaches to help manage and reduce excessive internet use. The paper provides valuable insights and solutions for parents and educators to address this growing concern.

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Introduction
This research paper aims to deliver the detailed discussion about the contemporary issues
faced by an adolescent, in routine at regular basis in their life. Adolescent as is a stage where
many physical, psychological, and hormonal changes took place in a human and these
changes reflect the personality changes in an adolescent. Many factors in the society affect an
adolescent are known as contemporary issues as it stresses and depression, cyber addiction,
early age sex, teenage pregnancy, and many more (Edgerly, Thorson, Thorson, Vraga, & &
Bode, 2018). This research paper focuses in detail on the issues teenage face due to social
media and cyber addiction with supportive solutions to the issues.
Cyber addiction issue
Social media is a hub to make contacts with the unknown and known friends and to share
their moment of the happiness, adventures and many more using the internet. These social
sites include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many more making a world of cyber
connection (Gedam, Ghosh, Modi, Goyal, & Mansharamani, 2017). There are many benefits
of using these social websites on internet like adolescent can build their communication skills
with interacting many friends across the world, they can get in touch to other community,
country and people and can develop their personality and knowledge, internet is helpful to
conduct research over topic given in the classrooms for study. Social media and other use of
the internet is very common and most important part of the people in their present time in all
age but it plays an important role in the life of adolescents (Goel, Subramanyam, & Kamath,
2013). There are many side effects of using the social media as cyber addiction those can be
discussed as:
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 Use of the internet and social media can result in the exposure of a teen to slut
shamming, cyber bullying and many more
 Excess use of internet can result the distance from the real world friends and families
 Many criminal activities took place with the use of internet
 Many criminal groups are active on these websites to use the adolescents for the
purpose of online robbery and many more
 An adolescent face emotional attachment with the friends and this sometimes result to
affect their mental health
 Many sexual and illegal content are common that affect the mental health of the teen
Assessment Questions
The Internet deals indisputable profits in increasing an adolescent's skill to mature with
present technology, awareness, and technical ideas. Cyber addiction is as harmful as drug and
drinking alcohol (Karacic & Oreskovic, 2017). To prevent an adolescent from the addiction
effective communication with planned questions is necessary. Important points to be
considered at the time of the questioning an adolescent about the issues are
1. How effective Family atmosphere and bonding an adolescent have?
2. How much time he spend on the internet?
3. What websites are used most of the time?
4. Did he use the internet for research and study?
5. How he behave in his social gathering?
6. How much time an adolescent can spend without using the internet?
Ethical parameters involved in the research and communication about the cyber addiction
will be related the permission and consent of the parents and teachers of the adolescents. This
research will aim to reduce the use of the internet in excess in an adolescent and to suggest
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the useful solution for the parents to manage the control over the teen while using the internet
and other manners to relevant the teens to watch illegal or harmful content on the internet
while surfing (Karacic & Oreskovic, 2017).
Support options for adolescents
Some common symptoms reflect the cyber addictions in an adolescent are intolerance,
obsession frustration, poor nutrition, lying about the internet use for research and insomnia as
common (Moed, et al., 2015). To secure the adolescents from cyber addiction these steps can
be used
Organized and carefully controlled timetable of routine with little access to Internet-
connected devices
1. Singular, crowd, and kinfolk treatment
2. Behavior alteration
3. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
4. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
5. Equestrian therapy
6. Animated arts therapy
7. Regeneration therapy
Specific support options
Most specific support to treat the addiction of internet-connected devices in adolescent is use
of the family and group therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (Valenzuela,
Bachmann, & Aguilar, 2016). These two deal the emotional and behavioural development of
a teen with focusing the use of creativity and skills in positive manner. These steps are
effective to prevent the wrong use of the internet by an adolescent.
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