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Obesity Rehabilitation
Centre INSULA
Insulaweg 1
83483 Bischofswiesen/Strub
Tel. +49/8652/59-522
Fax +49/8652/59-225
insula-xxl@dw-hohenbrunn.de
Additional addictions linked with obesity
The Obesity Rehabilitation Centre Insula not only treats obesity in adolescents and young adults
but also additional addictions linked with obesity such as media addiction. Psychologists, doctors,
sports therapists, nutritional therapists and social educators will professionally help you to find
your individual treatment plan whether you want to book ambulatory appointments or decide to
stay here in Bischofswiesen as an inpatient.
Overview
» Media addiction
» Smoking
» High alcohol consummation
» Truancy
Media addiction
Responsible for the media addiction treatment
is our psychologist Alexandra Gasperl
Question: Is excessive media consumption: "Addiction or a new life-reality/lifestyle?"
Answer: It can be both, the boundaries are fluid.
More and more adolescents are leading a sedentary lifestyle, many hours of their spare time are spent occupied with electronic media. At the same time there is a large increase of the prevalence of obesity.
It has been proved, that obesity can be associated with a passive lifestyle and at the same time be averted through active leisure time behaviour. Excessive Media consumption seems to be a significant influential factor, which has a variety of effects with respect to aetiology, maintenance, dietary habits and obesity specific interventions.
A day without digital media is hardly possible these days. Is this phenomenon ‘normal’ or is it a development that indicates a threat or addiction? What is the fascination of internet that offers so many different possibilities like online role playing, chats or social platforms? What seems to be more attractive, the virtual world or the real world, or has both got a space in our daily living?
Computer games become dangerous if children, adolescents or adults try to compensate their frustrations, insecurities and fears with the game, instead of developing alternative coping strategies.
Especially online games, for example: World of Warcraft (WOW), one has to spend a long time online. Due to the structure of those games a short playtime makes no sense, therefore it makes it very hard to judge if someone is endangered or even has an internet addiction.
What is important to know, is that people who use the internet or internet games a lot, do not necessarily show an addiction behaviour. But when does it become an addiction?
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Smoking
Smoking cessation during obesity therapy
at the Obesity Rehabilitation Centre Insula
Dipl. Psych. Ch. Guggenberger und Dr. W. Siegfried
Our main focus of the supportive interventions to reduce or stop smoking for juveniles or young adults with overweight or obesity lies on resources orientated strategies of the addiction problem.
Individually organised methods for cessation is based on the specific consideration of subjective motivational factors of the increasingly addictive behaviour.
The substance abusing behaviour is considered as an actually available and effective method at a given moment for the satisfaction of actual requirements or desires.
Simultaneously we search for diverse automatic and routine attitudes and patterns of behaviour to analyse, scrutinise and correct them.
Furthermore it is necessary to convey adequate and meaningful knowledge as regard the problem because existing knowledge is often biased, wrong or fragmentary.
The substance abusing behaviour has to be treated globally. It is contextually imbedded into an existing interplay of symptoms because of the present obesity problem.
Specific motivational factors to stop smoking have to fit to the target group of obese juveniles and young adults.
The promotion of salutogen and in this sense health promoting potentials can promote a positive perception of the intended reorientation.
It is important and effective to highlight the advances of a smoke-free future. Relevant benefits can be analysed and confirmed in a single- or group setting. Individual strategies can be discussed and collaboratively tested.
Our aim is an orientation on positive outcomes and available options instead of a fixation on problems, barriers and symptoms.
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High alcohol consummation
A risk factor for damaged health in addition to juvenile obesity:
high alcohol consummation
Thomas Graf, Psycholgist
The use of alcohol by adolescents, both binge and regular drinking, has seriously increased during the last years. Early drinking in life is considered as a risk factor for developing an alcohol addiction later on. The rising alcohol consummation in adolescence has become an additional challenge for our therapy. Not surprisingly, since several studies have found a link between higher body weight and the problematic use of alcohol. Lately, there has been an increasing number of hints, that the underlying mechanisms of the craving for food, the resulting energy misbalance and obesity should be seen as similar to those underlying substance addiction. Therefore, we decided to invite adolescents and young adults, who are aware of a risky alcohol consummation to our therapy in order to develop their resources and skills to minimize or to resist further drinking in a multi-professional setting of health prevention.
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Truancy
Diagnostics and Therapy of Truancy (ambulatory or as an inpatient)
Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist Claudia Vogl and educational director, Susanne Reithmeier
Students, who are often missing school, have worse chances in life! They are missing classes and have a hard time to achieve the class standards; therefore they will have a higher risk to be excluded from further vocational training or being unable to find an apprenticeship. Truants don’t graduate from school very often but drop out some time before graduation. That puts them in an inferior position socially and economically for a lifetime. In our clinical daily business we are often confronted with the phenomenon of truancy. Often Truancy is an expression of distress. Schools, parents and the adolescent concerned should not be left alone with this topic. The phenomenon of truancy is becoming more and more a public issue and is clearly asking for answers.
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