The Gaming Overload Workbook

A Teen's Guide to Balancing Screen Time, Video Games, and Real Life

by Randy Kulman

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Pub Date Sep 24 2020 | Archive Date Aug 01 2020

New Harbinger Publications, Inc. | New Harbinger

Self-Help | Teens & YA

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Description

Essential skills and strategies for managing your gameplay and creating a well-balanced life.

Do you spend hours on end playing video games? Do marathon gaming sessions cause you to lose much-needed sleep? Have your grades suffered as a result of neglecting schoolwork in favor of more game time? Has your physical health declined due to extended periods of inactivity? Have you tried unsuccessfully to limit the time you spend playing? Gaming can be a fun, challenging, and rewarding activity, but when it begins to interfere with other essential aspects of life, it might be time to set some limits.

The Gaming Overload Workbook will help you explore your use of video games in a thoughtful, nonjudgmental way. This isn’t a workbook for giving up on gaming. This is a guide to help you set your own limits on screen time, and apply your interest and enthusiasm for gaming to a wider variety of activities, like connecting with friends and family, excelling in school or sports, and just spending more time outdoors.

If you’re ready for some healthy balance between gaming, school, family, physical activity, and social relationships, this book will provide the key to winning at the game of life!

Essential skills and strategies for managing your gameplay and creating a well-balanced life.

Do you spend hours on end playing video games? Do marathon gaming sessions cause you to lose...

Advance Praise

“Randy Kulman has developed a practical, accessible resource for teens that honors their positive experiences with screen time while simultaneously engaging them, through interactive exercises, in meaningful reflections about the costs and benefits of excessive use. Informed by current research, this book is just what parents and other adults need to address concerns about technology use in a positive, respectful way.”
—Jon Lasser, PhD, professor of school psychology at Texas State University, and coauthor of Tech Generation

“Gaming is a complex world with confusing narratives about games’ supposed ills and considerable benefits. With his new, excellent workbook for youth, The Gaming Overload Workbook, Randy Kulman gives youth a fun and insightful opportunity to look at games through a whole new lens! Highly recommended for kids who love games.”
—Chris Ferguson, PhD, professor of psychology at Stetson University, and longtime researcher on the effects of videogames