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The Technology Addiction Workbook provides helping professionals with cognitive and behavioral
assessments, tools, and exercises that can be utilized to treat the root psychological causes of technology
addiction. It is designed to help people identify and change unhealthy thoughts and behaviors that
may have led to technology addiction. The activities in this workbook can help participants identify the
triggers that can lead to the overuse of technology and teach them ways to overcome and manage those
triggers.
The Technology Addiction Workbook will help participants to achieve the following:
¿ Recognize that they are experiencing an addiction problem.
¿ Reflect upon the behaviors that are part of and arose from the addiction.
¿ Build self-esteem in positive capabilities outside the use of technology.
¿ Understand the triggers for preoccupation with various aspects of technology.
¿ Develop greater self-acceptance and the ability to change ineffective behaviors.
¿ Understand recurring patterns that indicate a technology addiction.
¿ Learn ways to live a new life without obsessing over technology.
The Technology Addiction Workbook is a practical tool for teachers, counselors, and helping professionals
in their work with people suffering from behavioral addictions. Depending on the role of the person
using this workbook and the specific group's or individual's needs, the modules can be used individually
or as part of an integrated curriculum. The facilitator can administer an activity with a group or
individual or use multiple assessments in a workshop.
About the author
Ester R.A. Leutenberg has worked in the mental health field for many years as a publisher, author, and advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a devastating loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, Ester co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing with her daughter Kathy Khalsa and began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients.
