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Online Behaviours and the Impact on Mental Health: Insights from the OxWell Student Survey
The ‘Insights from the OxWell Student Survey‘ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the OxWell study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers and mental health professionals.
In this episode, Dr. Simona Skripkauskaite and Dr. Holly Bear comment on the findings from the OxWell survey regarding online behaviours and the association with young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
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Social Media & Online Usage – Pedagogy in practice (recording)
This free Social Media & Online Usage session was exclusively for teachers and school leaders, and Chartered College of Teaching Members. ACAMH is delighted to have teamed up with the Chartered College of Teaching to present these FREE online training series entitled ‘Pedagogy in practice’.
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Research Review: Viewing self-harm images on the internet and social media platforms: systematic review of the impact and associated psychological mechanisms
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We reviewed studies of potential impacts and mechanisms associated with viewing self-harm-related images on the internet and social media.’ Karima Susi et al.
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Narrative Matters: No teen is an island – the cost of finding a tribe through memes and TikToks
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘This article considers how literacies are assembled when ‘reading’ memes and TikToks; how this impacts adolescents’ membership or otherwise of a group; and how a desire for group membership hampers other aspects of literacy when engaging with this kind of social media content.’ Andrew Duffy.
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Social media use – Ask the Expert (recording)
For this session we welcomed Dr. Lizzy Winstone to share her knowledge and insights into some of the implications of social media use amongst young people.
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Age-related differences in social media use, online social support, and depressive symptoms in adolescents and emerging adults
Paper from the CAMH journal – ‘Using a cross-sectional sample of participants aged 14–22 years, we examined (a) linear and non-linear age-related changes in social media use and online social support and (b) age-related differences in the effects of social media use and online social support on depressive symptoms.’ Madison Politte-Corn et al.
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Schools engaged in doom-monitoring students’ online interactions and content creation: an analysis of dominant media discourses
Paper from the CAMH journal 2023 Special Issue – “Growing public concern about the safety and security of schools has led many schools and school districts within the United States to hire private companies to monitor students’ online interactions and the content they create, including on social media”. Kristjan Kikerpill and Andra Siibak
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Social Media Use in Adolescence: User Types and Mental Health
In this podcast, we are joined by Lizzy Winstone to discuss her co-authored JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being, results from a longitudinal survey of 13 to 14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’.
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Adolescent social media user types and their mental health
Video abstract from Lizzy Winstone on her JCPP Advances paper ‘Adolescent social media user types and their mental health and well-being: Results from a longitudinal survey of 13–14-year-olds in the United Kingdom’.
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Finding strength from a bleak year
Professor Andrea Danese explains about the KeepCool project.
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