Video Game Addiction
In clinical and counseling practice, "Video Game Addiction" is formally recognized by two primary frameworks: the American Psychiatric Association’s Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) and the World Health Organization’s Gaming Disorder. Professional counseling associations, such as the American Counseling Association (ACA), generally rely on these diagnostic standards to define the condition as a behavioral addiction characterized by persistent and recurrent gaming that leads to significant impairment in daily life.
