Parents Webinar: Understanding Games, Gamers & Game Dependency 9th Edition

This Parents Webinar is conducted in English with Mandarin simultaneous translation. This means that participants can choose English or Mandarin for their audio on Zoom.

With the increase accessibility of mobile devices, parents increasingly need to manage your children's gaming. Games are here to stay and will be part of our lives. Complete embargo of games for your child and youth will mean social and technology isolation. On the other hand excessive gaming can be a very real issue for some gamers. Yet, game dependency, or some termed gaming addiction, is rarely on the clinical radar as a cause or contributor to educational or behavioural difficulties for which psychological services were being sought as compared to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, insomnia, and mood deregulation.

For this Parents Webinar, we seek to equip parents with frameworks to help parents better understand games, gamers and game dependency. With better understanding of games and your child’s gaming motivations, parent-child communication and relationship can be improved. Developed from the understanding of a youth's brain development, various communication strategies will be examined.

For this webinar, we have an invited speaker, Alsen Chanamuto from the Centre for Fathering who will be sharing with us the importance of fathers, especially gaming fathers, and your impact and influence on your gaming children as a gaming father and educator himself.

The webinar is facilitated by Pauline Phoon the Founder of COMEBACK, with COMEBACK Psychologists, Nicholas Gabriel Lim and Poh Xing Yong sharing their insights and recommendations.

本次家长网络研讨会以英语进行，并配有普通话同声传译。参与者可以选择英语或中文作为你们在 Zoom 上的音频。

随着手机的普遍，父母越来越需要关注孩子玩电动游戏。随着电动游戏的发展，它已经成为我们生活的一部分。如果完全禁止您的孩子和青少年玩电动游戏将意味着社交和科技隔离，但不受约束的玩电动游戏会对孩子有不良的影响。然而，与注意力缺陷多动障碍 (ADHD)、失眠、情绪失调和其他心理状况相比，沉迷游戏，或游戏成瘾，通常在心理学临床检验上不算是学习和行为问题的原因。

本次家长网络研讨会，我们会为家长提供框架，以帮助家长更好地了解游戏、游戏玩家和游戏依赖。通过更好地了解游戏和孩子的游戏动机，家长可以改进沟通方式而从中改善亲子关系。从青少年大脑发育的理解出发，我们将探讨各种沟通技巧。

这次的研讨会，我们很荣幸的邀请到 Alsen Chanamuto，好爸爸中心的学校参与经理。身为教育者和喜爱电动游戏的父亲，Alsen会探讨父亲们在孩子电动游戏行为和成长过程中所扮演的重要角色。

这家长网络研讨会由 COMEBACK 创始人 Pauline Phoon 主持。COMEBACK 心理学家 Nicholas Gabriel Lim 和 Poh Xing Yong 将会分享他们的见解和建议。

A big thank you to Zhiying and team at MediaCorp 8 News for doing up such an insightful segment about gaming. They interviewed Pauline Phoon, COMEBACK founder and also Jane Kee (Huiyi) who attended our Parents Webinar in May 2022. The team has condensed the much information that Pauline shared in a very concise manner for the last 2 minute.

非常感谢新传媒新闻部的颜季莹和同事制作了如此有见地的游戏片段。他们采访了 COMEBACK 创始人 Pauline Phoon 和慧仪，她2022年5月参与了我们的家长网络研讨会。在最后 2 分钟，制作组用非常简洁的方式浓缩了 Pauline 分享的信息。

About the Speakers

COMEBACK Speakers

Invited Speakers

Special Thanks!

Special and sincere appreciation to the follow parents group for your support for this webinar and all the work you do for the parents:
特别诚挚感谢以下家长小组对本次网络研讨会的支持以及您为家长所做的所有工作:

• Centre for Fathering
• Dads for Life
• Mums for Life
• Village Consultancy
• SG Families
• Last but not least, the Parents Support Groups (PSG) of the Singapore schools 最重要的是新加坡学校的家长支持小组（PSG）

If you are looking for parents who are in the same journey with you to support one another, or more parenting resources, please look through the groups and check your child's school PSG and find one that suits you best! 如果您正在寻找与您志同道合、互相支持的家长，或者更多的育儿资源，请浏览各个群组并查看您孩子所在学校的 PSG，找到最适合您的！