Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Dec 2015

Beyond the Self in Self-Regulation—Reaching Beyond Technologies: The Importance of Others and Relationships to Individual Well-Being

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Page Range: 158 – 162
DOI: 10.5298/1081-5937-43.4.02
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As technologies become increasingly integrated in all aspects of culture, we may be losing our therapeutic pulse on how important true face-to-face and heart-to-heart relationships are to our personal and collective well-being. Social isolation and excessive utilization of i-technology appear to contribute to the development or maintenance of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, and ADHD. Human engagement risks being eclipsed by the novelty and excitement of the digital age. Current practice indicates that there are potentially positive and even therapeutic applications of technologies for betterment and healing, but that we should be selective in our applications.

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Mary K. Swingle


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Correspondence: Mari K. Swingle, PhD, Swingle Clinic, 630-1190 Melville St. Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6E 3W1, email: mswingle@swingleclinic.com.
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