Dr. Anthony Bean
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first heard May 2025
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Um, it would depend on kind of like, and obviously as a clinician, I can't, uh, diagnose or anything like that. But one of the biggest things that we always say is how long is he playing it? Can he work to get that thing? Is there a behavioral mechanism that if I do all my chores, I get all my homework done. I get to play for these things. Is there a token economy that's going in?
Those things, a lot of people, um, parents that have, um, neuro neurodivergent children. When they hear token economy, they think ABA therapy and they think ABA is really crappy. ABA has a purpose. That's it. That's the biggest thing I could tell you. I'm not an ABA therapist, but the principles that are behind it.
can be gravitated and utilized and extrapolated outside of just what ABA therapy is. So token economy, that's just, we live by a token economy. I work every day so I can get paid. Welcome to a token economy. I go to the grocery store. I hand you money. You give me groceries. Token economy. We live in that that type of world.
And so if you can use those principles in a realistic setting for your child, such as a you have 15 minutes, and then we're going to do this timers and everything like that, and find a stopping place. Some video games, I think it's one of my biggest pet peeves growing up was like video games, they didn't have a stopping point when we were younger. in some places.
So we had to get to the end of the level to write down this silly code so we can start back where we used to be at a save point. But what happens now is there are save points, there are places where you have an opportunity to stop. And if we can get our kids to recognize that, oh, here's my opportunity to stop, let's put the game down, even if they need an extra three to five minutes,
That's okay to give them those extra three to five minutes. You don't have to be such an authoritarian person like, no, 15 minutes is done, done, like that. Be like, find a stopping place. I'm going to give you a couple extra minutes, get it done. If they push the boundary, pull the boundary back.
yeah so this is a uh if this was a scientist um asking this one i would say this is a bait question um in a in a way um and for everyone's going to play a different game a different genre that's going to have the better effect for for them i love space games to give you an idea i love space games fantasy games but you put me in a in a shooter like call of duty i could care less like that doesn't that's not going to do anything for me um
People are going to gravitate towards specifically what game, what genres that make them feel good, and it's going to help them out in those instances. So it's hard to say what one's going to be the better one, what's not going to be one. It's about recognition. It's about co-regulation. It's about cooperative play.
Those things actually help us because we feel like we're making some of that thing. The chemical you're asking is dopamine, but don't get drawn into the dopamine principle because it's not... really well researched and it's not really well based right now. I'll give you an example, um, of this type of stuff.
Uh, um, dopamine when you play video games is released at like 150 to 200% of what normally is, is in there. You eat cheese pizza. It's 300%. You do Coke. It's 5,000. So let me ask you how, how intensely is, is our video games really working within our dopamine regulation system? Are they there? Sure. Cheese pizza better? Absolutely. I'll be reinforced by cheese pizza every day.
I'm okay with it. I prefer it not, but I can eat it. I love pineapples, so...
My favorite is pepperoni mushroom. I don't know what about it, but if it's just good, man, it's just so good together.
So this is going to be based upon the community that you're a part of. The reason is because if you're not a licensed clinician, you don't have the training in order to do stuff. That's not to say that you can't do things with them, but you don't want to become the crutch that someone goes to.
Yeah, that could also... occur. And so for for this, it's really about sometimes it's just being present with the individual. And when you can recognize that, like, oh, this person needs additional help. Hey, have you thought about going to a therapist? No, no, I don't want to do that. I think it'd be a good idea for you to go to to a therapist.
Community is key for anything. Don't do your best to not like isolate yourself. Find a community. Go in and be a part of it, whether it's online, whether it's a social group on the outside. It doesn't have to be therapy because things can be therapeutic. Playing games are therapeutic. Being in a community, going and playing that Topgolf, therapeutic. Playing soccer, therapeutic.
and out to eat with your friends, therapeutic. Those things are very, very important, I think, for people to realize it just takes one step in that direction and it makes a world of a difference.
Those are kind of middle of the ground. It depends on which self-help book.
Generally, I think they will bring up a community, a community, but communal aspects you feel connected to them. But I think in some ways that they're a little overrated. Okay. Crying. Underrated.
Underrated.
Underrated.
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