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Grand Theft Childhood
''Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do'' is a book by Lawrence Kutner (psychologist), Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl K. Olson. Along with psychiatrist Eugene V. Beresin, Kutner and Olson are co-directors of the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media, a division of the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. Background The book was based in part on original research funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. United States Department of Justice, Department of Justice to the Center for Mental Health and Media. The book's title is a play on the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, a video game series that has attracted a great deal of controversy. In contrast to previous studies that focused on potential harmful effects of violent video game play and links to real-life violence, Kutner and Olson take a more nuanced view of how video games influence young teens. The authors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Kutner (psychologist)
Lawrence Kutner is an American child psychologist best known as the author of the internationally syndicated "Parent & Child" column in the New York Times from 1987 to 1993. He is a former member of the psychiatry faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the author of six popular books on child psychology and parent-child communication. He was the founder of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital. From 2009 to 2018, he was the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the largest scholarship provider in the United States. The private, independent foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. It offers the larg .... Works *(2008) Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do (co-authored by Cheryl Olson) *(1998) Making Sense of Your Teenager (Parent & Child) *(1997) Your School-Age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonviolent Game
Nonviolent video games are video games characterized by little or no Violence#Media, violence. As the term is vague, game designers, developers, and marketers that describe themselves as non-violent video game makers, as well as certain reviewers and members of the non-violent gaming community, often employ it to describe games with ''comparatively'' little or no violence. The definition has been applied flexibly to games in such purposive genres as the Christian video game. However, a number of games at the fringe of the "non-violence" label can only be viewed as objectively violent. The purposes behind the development of the nonviolent genre are primarily reactionary in nature. As video quality and level of gaming technology have increased, the violent nature of some video games has gained worldwide attention from moral, political, gender, and medical/psychological quarters. The popularity of violent video games and increases in youth violence have led to much research into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
