The AAP Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health has hosted webinars on topics related to social media's impact on youth mental health. View the webinar descriptions below and click the "Watch" button to view the recording.

 

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Youth Mental Health and Social Media: From Posting to Influencing

This webinar is focused on how clinicians and parents might talk to teens, who are already on social media or about to join, about the content they are creating and sharing.  Join Pam Pietruszewski, MA, senior advisor, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and Willough Jenkins, MD, child psychiatrist and medical director at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego as they explore what to expect when a young person posts online.

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How to Support Youth as They Engage with Social Media

Listen as Dusty Jepkema, social worker at Integrated Services of Kalamazoo, and Amanda Stark, project manager, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health explore how social media impacts youth in different ways and how to bring a culturally responsive lens to the conversation.  

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Starting the Conversation About Teen Social Media Use With Help from the Family Media Plan

Parents and providers play an important role in guiding how teens use social media. But it can be hard to know where to start! In this webinar, we explore ways health care providers and other adults can talk with teens about healthy social media use habits. 

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Overview of the Center of Excellence on Social Media & Youth Mental Health

Learn more about the American Academy of Pediatrics' Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health. In this webinar, we discuss the Center's child-centered framework to understanding the relationship between social media and youth mental health, the current research, and review the resources we've created for parents, clinicians, teachers, and youth to support children and teens as they navigate the digital world. 

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Social Media and Youth Mental Health: Strategies for Service Providers

Are you a physician or health service provider interested in exploring ways you can address social media use and youth mental health? This webinar, featuring guest speaker Erin Belfort, MD, addresses a child-centered framework to understanding the relationship between social media and mental wellbeing and offers service providers strategies and tools for practical youth use of social media. This webinar was hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the American Academy of Pediatrics Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health.

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Talking about Social Media: Pathways for Parents & Caregivers

Parents and caregivers play an important role in supporting their child’s mental health, including having discussions on social media usage. Explore different tools and skills for initiating conversations with children and teens about social media in our webinar featuring guest speaker Pam Pietruszewski, MA. This webinar was sponsored by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the American Academy of Pediatrics Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health.

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Social Media and Youth Mental Health: Tips for Teens

Are you looking for positive ways youth can use social media? In this webinar hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the American Academy of Pediatrics Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health, Lacey Rosenbaum, PhD and two teen guest speakers describe the potential risks and benefits of social media use to teen mental health, identify healthy social media habits and discuss resources and strategies to support these habits. Share this recording with the young people in your life!

 

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New Year, New Start: Talking with Teens about Social Media and Mental Health

Parents and caregivers play an important role in guiding how children and teens use social media. But starting that conversation can be hard! How can we engage young people in useful conversations? What are some roadblocks to avoid? In this webinar, Pam Pietruszewski from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing explains four key concepts for talking with youth that can help drive them to make healthier choices: partnership, acceptance, compassion, and empowerment.

 

Funding for the Center of Excellence was made possible by Grant No. SM087180 from SAMHSA of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, SAMHSA/HHS or the US Government.

Last Updated

05/02/2024

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American Academy of Pediatrics