Our school counseling team knows social media is making teen depression and anxiety worse, but we're all overwhelmed trying to address it and we keep defaulting to telling parents to 'just take the phones away' which we know doesn't work. We need a better approach but nobody has time to figure it out together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Professionals who understand the complexity of a problem are too scattered to develop the nuanced response they know is needed.
“Where Are You with Social media and adolescent mental health?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.