Criteria for the establishment of a new behavioural addiction • Commentary to the debate: “Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11”

Matthew J Gullo; Andrew Wood; John Saunders

doi:10.1556/2006.2022.00031

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Criteria for the establishment of a new behavioural addiction • Commentary to the debate: “Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11”

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Criteria for the establishment of a new behavioural addiction • Commentary to the debate: “Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11”

Matthew J Gullo, Andrew Wood and John Saunders

Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Vol.11(2), pp.191-198

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2022.00031

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behavioural addiction

gaming disorder

pornography-use disorder

buying-shopping disorder

diagnosis

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When does repeated behaviour constitute behavioural addiction? There has been considerable debate about non-substance-related addictions and how to determine when impaired control over a behaviour is addiction. There are public health benefits to identifying new behavioural addictions if intervention can improve outcomes. However, criteria for establishing new behavioural addictions must guard against diagnostic inflation and the pathologizing of normal problems of living. Criteria should include clinical relevance (Criterion 1), alignment with addiction phenomenology (Criterion 2) and theory (Criterion 3), and taxonomic plausibility (Criterion 4). Against such criteria, evidence does not yet support classification of pornography-use and buying-shopping disorders as addictions.

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Title: Criteria for the establishment of a new behavioural addiction • Commentary to the debate: “Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11”
Authors: Matthew J Gullo (Author) - The University of Queensland
Andrew Wood (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
John Saunders (Author) - The University of Queensland
Publication details: Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Vol.11(2), pp.191-198
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado Rt.
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1556/2006.2022.00031
ISSN: 2063-5303; 2062-5871
Copyright note: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99656398302621
Output Type: Journal article

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