Awards

• Winner of Nautilus Award Winner 2018

Overview

With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brain, relationships, and personal lives are well documented. Deviced! explores these alterations and offers a realistic look at how we can better use technology and break away from the bad habits we’ve formed. Using personal stories, cutting edge research, and anecdotes from youth, parents, and professionals, Dodgen-Magee highlights the brain changes that result from excessive technology use and offers an approach to the digital world that enables more informed and lasting change and a healthier long-term perspective. Given that the reader is living within a culture of ever-changing and advancing technologies, Deviced! is written in such a way that its contents can weather the constantly changing digital landscape by focusing on the concepts of honest assessment and healthy boundary setting rather than on specific technologies or platforms. Deviced! offers a mindful approach to assessing current technology use, breaking bad habits, setting new norms, and re-engaging with life with renewed richness and awareness.

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9781538115848

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Reviews

A spot-on analysis of screen dilemmas with a fascinating psychological spin and focus on solutions. An important read for everyone concerned about helping our screenagers, specifically, and our society in general. -- Delaney Ruston, MD, Pediatrician, Creator and Director of SCREENAGERS: Growing up in the Digital Age For everyone feeling saturated, seduced, or assaulted by the constant stream of electronic content available at the touch of a button, or finding that they care a little too much how many likes, followers, and comments they garner online, Deviced! is a welcome antidote...turn off notifications, shut down the computer and silence your smartphone long enough to read this book. -- Brigid Schulte, Author of the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, Director of The Better Life Lab at New America If you want to take responsibility for your screen time, Deviced! is the roadmap! It shows you how to build an internal locus of control - the most valuable asset you can have. -- Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, author, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, and Endorphin Levels With the keen eye of a researcher and the warm heart of a friend, parent, and teacher, Doreen shares invaluable insight into life in the tech age. Doreen is no Luddite. Her goal in this book is not to call us back to calculators and rotary phones, but rather to remind us of the value of fiery, embodied lives -lives that use technology for our benefit without stunting our own relational and developmental growth. -- Tracy Balzer, Author of Permission to Ponder: Contemplative Wisdom for the Spiritually Distracted Doreen Dodgen-Magee does what most who have written about the impact of technology on youth and adults haven't been able to do-recognize and help us sort out the complexity that technology has introduced into our lives. This is not a simple self-help book. It goes much deeper than, Try these few ideas and it will all be good. You will finish the book understanding yourself better because you have explored the intricacies of what you value and what makes you human. -- Candyce Reynolds, PhD, Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy; Professor, Postsecondary, Adult and Continuing Education, Portland State University This is a much-needed book for our time. -- Todd W. Hall, PhD, Chief Scientist, The Connection Culture Group I love this book because it focuses on mending, not condemning, the technology user to regain an authentic and relational experience in today's society. -- James Haendiges, PhD, Associate Professor, Dixie State College An essential book for all of us navigating the world of technology. -- Lynea Gillen, Co-Founder, Yoga Calm for Kids; Award-Winning Author of Yoga Calm for Kids and Good People Everywhere Deviced! is a work of hope and compassion. In this rare book, Doreen Dodgen-Magee asks us to notice the altered aliveness devices offer and to consider wholesome alternatives, breaking ground for a middle path many of us seek. Beginning with an exploration of the seeds of self, the emotional regulation of attachment and separation, and the nurturing role of boredom in the birth of agency, Doreen reminds us that we're humans and articulates our innate yearning for play, wonder, love, longing, and a delight in the experience of being alive. -- Jon Male, Founder, Mindfuls Doreen Dodgen-Magee gracefully reminds us that technology can serve rather than enslave us. -- Omar Reda, MD, Psychiatrist and Trauma Expert, Founder of the Untangled Model of Psycho-Social Care for Refugees and Trauma Survivors In a world of conflicting reports telling us technology is either wonderful or wicked, healthy or harmful, Deviced! is a total game changer. Especially for parents. How do we help our kids-and ourselves-use devices to harness all the advantages technology has to offer our modern lives, while also being savvy and wise about the pitfalls and long-term effects? Using the latest research and her decades as both a practicing psychologist and captivating speaker, Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee banishes our media-related guilt in favor of teaching intentional and actionable practices that enhance our relationships with each other to carry us through this era and beyond. Highly recommend! -- Beth Woolsey, Writer and Popular Parening Blogger of Five Kids Is A Lot Of Kids This is the first book to profoundly transform my understanding of Big Tech's deep impact on a brain-changing, cellular level, to offer practical assessments of what's healthy and what's not when it comes to device engagement, and to propose mindful solutions to tech overuse. -- Kathy Masarie, MD, Life Coach, Author of Face to Face: Cultivating Kids' Social Lives in Today's Digital World

If you want to take responsibility for your screen time, Deviced! is the roadmap! It shows you how to build an internal locus of control - the most valuable asset you can have. -- Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, author, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, and Endorphin Levels

Author Information

Doreen Dodgen-Magee, PsyD, is a psychologist with over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals and groups in Portland, Oregon. She also maintains a national and international speaking docket and is followed online where she posts challenges for living moderately with tech and wildly in embodied spaces. Doreen’s main passion is engaging people about how the new digital landscape is shaping humanity. She also is a nationally recognized gun violence prevention activist.

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