Cognitive Training for the Treatment of Addictions Mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Sandra Restrepo, Dubis Rincón and Edwin Sepulveda
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Sandra Restrepo: Department Psychology and Social Sciences, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, Medellín 050034, Colombia
Dubis Rincón: Department Psychology and Social Sciences, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, Medellín 050034, Colombia
Edwin Sepulveda: Department Communication, Advertising and Design, Universidad Católica Luis Amigó, Medellín 050034, Colombia

Future Internet, 2020, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: This work constitutes a narrative review of the state of knowledge and advances in the intervention and treatment of addictions through the use of information and communication technologies, considering the growing demand for virtuality-mediated strategies that facilitate the approach of problems of public health such as addictions, which increase considerably year after year. To this end, the reader will be provided with a current overview of the drug use trend; subsequently, a conceptualization of the concept of addiction and its understanding from a neurobiological perspective and, finally, the progress in terms of intervention processes and therapeutic approach will be presented; which will imply an approach to the concept of e-health and rehabilitation mediated by information and communication technologies (ICT).

Keywords: addictions; cognitive retraining; information and communication technologies; neurorehabilitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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