THE ROLE OF SOCIO-PEDAGOGICAL PREVENTION OF INTERNET ADDICTION IN STUDENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The relevance of the problem of early prevention of Internet addiction among minors is based on the fact that primary prevention should positively affect both the personality of the minor himself and the three main areas in which his life is realized: family, educational institution and leisure communities, including the microsocial environment of a child or teenager. The educational environment is an integral part of the culture of modern society, which directly depends on the degree of personal security. To do this, an effective system for preventing the formation of addictions should be organized, one of the important components of which is the prevention of computer addiction. Addiction in the medical sense is defined as an obsessive need to take a familiar substance, accompanied by an increase in tolerance and pronounced symptoms. Internet addiction is characterized by a child's strong desire to be online, which leads to an unwillingness to spend time with family and friends, sleep, attend school, and do homework. The child may stop monitoring his appearance, begin to react painfully to requests to distract from the computer, lose control of his time, lie, and the departure from reality may increase day by day. Parents should be able to recognize the signs of impending addiction before it becomes a real problem.