Functional impairment matters in the screening and diagnosis of gaming disorder

Billieux, Joël and King, Daniel L. and Higuchi, Susumu and Achab, Sophia and Bowden-Jones, Henrietta and Hao, Wei and Long, Jiang and Lee, Hae Kook and Potenza, Marc N. and Saunders, John B. and Poznyak, Vladimir (2017) Functional impairment matters in the screening and diagnosis of gaming disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 6 (3). pp. 285-289. ISSN 2062-5871

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Abstract

This commentary responds to Aarseth et al.’s (in press) criticisms that the ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal would result in “moral panics around the harm of video gaming” and “the treatment of abundant false-positive cases.” The ICD-11 Gaming Disorder avoids potential “overpathologizing” with its explicit reference to functional impairment caused by gaming and therefore improves upon a number of flawed previous approaches to identifying cases with suspected gaming-related harms. We contend that moral panics are more likely to occur and be exacerbated by misinformation and lack of understanding, rather than proceed from having a clear diagnostic system.

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