Learning Points: Parents need to wake up to gaming addiction

Face our own self-deception as parents before we can help children says Richard Hogan.

In last weeks article I discussed how The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently classified online gaming as a new mental health condition. For all of us working in the mental health profession, especially with teenagers, this came as little surprise, because parents have been accessing services for many years now seeking advice for their children who seem to be addicted to their devices.