Computer games and young male aggression

In an article for CCYP and Therapy Today journals, Jeanine Connor writes on the growing number of boys referred to CAMHS because they are unable to concentrate, failing academically and have no impulse control. She argues that computer games are partly to blame for a marked increase in young male aggression and age-inappropriate sexual behaviour. A recent study of 10 and 11-year old children conducted by Bristol University found that playing computer games for more than two hours a day increases the risk of mental health problems by 60 per cent.

Therapy Today, November 2011