This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments Included!

Presenter: Kevin Roberts, author of: "Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap".

Kevin Roberts began his computer gaming obsession in Angell Hall’s computer lab. In the ten years following graduation from the University of Michigan in 1993, he racked up 14,000 hours of “recreational” game time. He held down a job, but spent most of his free time in front of a computer screen. Support and intervention from friends finally got him to control his cyber behaviors.

Kevin Roberts draws on personal and professional experiences with cyber addictions to take audiences deep into the world of the cyber addict, examining the issues that underlie compulsive urges. Discussed are warning signs, tools to deal with this addiction, and strategies to ensure that the problem does not take root in the first place, especially with those with AD/HD who are at particularly high risk.

Kevin Roberts is currently an AD/HD coach, director of curriculum for the EmpowerADD Project, and a leader of support groups for those with cyber addictions. His clients include professional athletes, college professors, and teenagers. One of his cyber group members, an excessive texter, will be featured later this fall on MTV’s show, True Life.