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Gussie Klorer, St. Louis, MO  \nAbstract  \nChildren today are continually bombarded with visual and auditory stimulation, and many make their connections in cyberspace to the detriment of real-time face-to-face encounters with other people. The negative effects of multitasking and technological overload on children and adolescents are discussed in this viewpoint article from the perspective of afamily art therapist. The impact of overstimulation on attachment, attention deficit disorder, and interpersonal skills has profound implications for children receiving art therapy.  \nIntroduction  \nMy own experience in various situations has taught me that art therapy can function under all sorts of difficulties. It can endure heat, cold, lack of space and facilities, disorder and violence, but it cannot well endure emptiness. When people’s lives are too consistently filled with synthetic living art does not survive easily. (Kramer, 1975, p. 42)  \nEdith Kramer’s article “Art and Emptiness” was written well before its time. When she wrote about synthetic living in 1975, the current prevalence of personal computers, play stations, reality TV, and video games were not even on the horizon. Children today are continually bombarded by visual and auditory stimulation, and are “connected” in cyberspace to the detriment of real-time face-to-face encounters with other people. How does art survive when genuine experiences are pushed aside in favor of computer-generated realities, a cacophony of images invades the visual field, and human interactions take place in cyberspace? More importantly, how do relationships survive?  \nMultitasking and overstimulation are affecting children today. Consider a few vignettes: Two teenagers are walking  \nEditor’s note: P. Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC, LCSW, LCPC, is the Director of the Graduate Art Therapy Counseling program, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE). This paper was adapted from a panel presentation called “Techo Stress: Fighting Information Overload and Time Poverty,” sponsored by LIS Research Projects and Development Committee and the Friends of Lovejoy Library at SIUE (April, 2007). Correspondence  \nconcerning this viewpoint should be sent [to pklorer@charter.net](to pklorer@charter.net)  \ndown the street. Both have cell phones stuck to theirs ears and are talking animatedly, but not to each other. Each is connected to someone someplace else, and is thus not relating to the person a foot away. An adolescent boy is doing his algebra homework while listening to an iPod™ and instant messaging his girlfriend, and none of the tasks is getting his full attention. At the dinner table, a girl is text messaging with her friends, planning for when they will all meet up inan hour. No one asks her to turn off the phone to engage ina here-and-now conversation.  \nBefore continuing with the arguments herein, it is important to note that this article is not anti-technology. Technology has improved communication exponentially for business and personal purposes, making phenomenal leapsin efficiency of information gathering, storage, and research. Technology can positively affect family structures and communication. In art therapy practice, technology has produced some amazing results, particularly with adolescents. However, as wonderful as technology is, art therapists need to look at the unintended consequences of a techno-digital society on the mental health of children and integrate this information into their treatment planning. The detrimental effects of technology on human development and relationships have profound implications for art therapy.  \nIt All Begins With Television  \nMany children are growing up in front of a television. A national longitudinal survey found that 1-year-old children watched an average of 2.2 hours of television per day, and 3-year-old children watched an average of 3.6 h","cbCaircdeXp18Ci5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaircdeXp18Ci5","pdf",73162,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# It All Begins With Television","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the article focus on regarding technology use in children?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on how children’s constant visual and auditory stimulation—and their online “connections”—can undermine real-time face-to-face relationships.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the article oppose technology itself?\",\"answer\":\"No. The article states it is not anti-technology and acknowledges benefits for communication and efficiency, while arguing for attention to unintended mental health consequences.\"},{\"question\":\"How does television viewing relate to attention and social outcomes, according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article cites research indicating that greater television exposure in early childhood increases the likelihood of later attention problems, and that excessive viewing correlates with social and behavioral difficulties.\"}]","The Effects of Technological Overload on Children - An Art Therapist’s Perspective | PDF",1792074287]