Научная статья на тему 'PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE USAGE OF SMARTPHONES BY TEENAGERS DURING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS'

PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE USAGE OF SMARTPHONES BY TEENAGERS DURING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS Текст научной статьи по специальности «Компьютерные и информационные науки»

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digital age / self-awareness in children and adolescents / psychotherapy of children and adolescents

Аннотация научной статьи по компьютерным и информационным наукам, автор научной работы — Burlakova Natalya

Abstract: The contemporary epoch is often called a digital age. The perception of this epoch and of its opportunities differs between the generation of psychotherapists (in the research literature they are often referred to as “digital emigrants”) and today’s children (who may be called “digital autochthones”). In the digital age, communication forms and language have undergone transformations, causing changes in the development of children and adolescents. In this new situation, one needs to understand a) how the digital culture influences the development of self-awareness and sense of self in adolescents, and b) which restrictions should be implemented on the usage of smartphones (and other gadgets) during the individual psychotherapy sessions and which of their psychological functions can contribute to the psychotherapeutical process. The paper, thus, discusses whether the usage of a smartphone could become productive for therapy and open a window into the inner world of an adolescent. Based on the cases from the psychotherapeutical practice and using the methodology of functional-structural analysis of psychotherapy (Burlakova, 1996), the paper describes and analyzes both negative functions of usage of smartphones during psychotherapy sessions (resistance; attempts to avoid living through uncomfortable or difficult relations with themselves and/or others, etc.) and positive ones (a means to understand disorders in evolvement of self, compensation of vulnerability, search for new forms of recognition, etc.). The discussed functions provide a basis for reevaluation of this practice and demonstrate potential new opportunities.

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Текст научной работы на тему «PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE USAGE OF SMARTPHONES BY TEENAGERS DURING INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS»

follows: video games, risk of video game addiction, video game addiction and video game consumption practice. In the theoretical framework, a necessary and brief explanation was developed on topics closely linked to our work and of vital importance for understanding it.

Keywords: video game, consumption, family, addiction, risk DOI:

PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE USAGE OF SMARTPHONES BY TEENAGERS DURING INDIVIDUAL

PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS

Burlakova Natalya

Associate Professor, Department of Neuro- and Pathopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: naburlakova@yandex.ru

Abstract: The contemporary epoch is often called a digital age. The perception of this epoch and of its opportunities differs between the generation of psychotherapists (in the research literature they are often referred to as "digital emigrants") and today's children (who may be called "digital autochthones"). In the digital age, communication forms and language have undergone transformations, causing changes in the development of children and adolescents. In this new situation, one needs to understand a) how the digital culture influences the development of self-awareness and sense of self in adolescents, and b) which restrictions should be implemented on the usage of smartphones (and other gadgets) during the individual psychotherapy sessions and which of their psychological functions can contribute to the psychotherapeutical process. The paper, thus, discusses whether the usage of a smartphone could become productive for therapy and open a window into the inner world of an adolescent.

Based on the cases from the psychotherapeutical practice and using the methodology of functional-structural analysis of psychotherapy (Burlakova, 1996), the paper describes and analyzes both negative functions of usage of smartphones during psychotherapy sessions (resistance; attempts to avoid living through uncomfortable or difficult relations with themselves and/or others, etc.) and positive ones (a means to understand disorders in evolvement of self, compensation of vulnerability, search for new forms of recognition, etc.). The discussed functions provide a basis for reevaluation of this practice and demonstrate potential new opportunities.

Keywords: digital age, self-awareness in children and adolescents, psychotherapy of children and adolescents

DOI:

CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SCREEN TIME, OUTDOOR ACTIVITY TIME, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF

PRESCHOOLERS

Yufang Cui

Master Student, Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; e-mail:

cuiyufangcyf@163.com

Minyi Li

Associate Professor, Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; e-mail:

minyili@bnu.edu.cn

Yifei Chu

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