We might just have it backwards about social media. It might be that teens who are already struggling with mental health issues, self-esteem issues, etc. are using it more. Not that using it more causes those things. “Childhood emotional maltreatment has important adverse psychological and emotional impacts on children, and they might try to avoid…
Mark it down Canada. Based on what I’ve seen on social media in past years, this has been a huge success not only in terms of raising awareness, but also hard cash! Also note, for some of these, you don’t even have to be Canadian to take part. “Bell donates 5 cents to Canadian mental…
The article lists out a lot of the reasons, and I encourage you to read it, but this part I found to be very interesting because it reminded me of things I’ve done in some adult learning situations: “Way and her colleagues created “The Listening Project,” which aims to build connections among seventh-graders in New…
I was more than a little shocked and saddened when I read the news in an email this week about the Louisiana chapter of Prevent Child Abuse shutting its doors. First and foremost, because, as the article gets into, the hard work of abuse prevention doesn’t seem to really move the needle when it comes…
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This is something I think many of us struggle with, and I’m glad this article came across my feeds this week. “Social media keeps us connected to all sorts of different people — acquaintances, old friends, even celebrities — and that when we see someone posting in distress, Klapow says it is possible to step…
