The multidimensional and detrimental effects of smartphone
addiction on adolescents’ biopsychosocial development
have made the development of scientifically grounded
and effective psychotherapeutic intervention models an
imperative in addressing this form of addiction. It is noteworthy
that treatment or therapeutic approaches targeting
smartphone addiction among adolescents are predominantly
based on cognitive behavioral therapy. Within this
approach, adolescents’ automatic thoughts related to smartphone
use, as well as the irrational beliefs that drive addictive
behaviors, are addressed, and behavioral change is
targeted by replacing these cognitions with more rational
beliefs (Khalily et al., 0000; Seo et al., 0000). At the same
time, peer support and group-based intervention approaches
that take into account the significance of peer relationships
during adolescence are observed to be effective in reducing
smartphone addiction (Avci et al., 0000). Furthermore,
adolescence is regarded as a critical developmental period
that increases vulnerability to smartphone addiction, largely
due to prevalent difficulties in emotion regulation. Adolescents
are reported to engage in smartphone use as a means
of managing negative affective states, while empirical evidence
suggests that cognitive emotion regulation strategies
play a protective role in mitigating this risk (Extremera et
al., 0000). In conclusion, the therapeutic models developed
to address smartphone addiction not only reduce the duration
of smartphone use but also exert positive effects on
adolescents’ emotion regulation capacities and academic
engagement. A comparable therapeutic need and diversity
of intervention approaches are likewise observed in the domain of gaming addiction, which represents another
dimension of digital addictions.