Help protect kids from digital media overuse!
Our Guide on Teen Digital Media Overuse provides:
- Helpful information about digital media and youth
- Definitions of digital media overuse/addiction
- Guidance on recognizing digital media overuse/addiction
- Resources for navigating family conversations
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This Guide was created in response to feedback from families and practitioners seeking research-based education and materials about digital media overuse and addiction that are easy to use and distribute. This Guide answers that call! We hope our Guide serves as a practical and helpful tool to support families and mental health practitioners. We would love your feedback! Please take a moment to give us a bit of helpful information about what brought you here.
A Note to Parents:
Parenting in today’s digital age is hard! There are so many unknowns and technology rapidly changes moment to moment. We wrote this Guide in order to provide some helpful information about digital media and youth—especially with regard to digital media overuse and addiction. The purpose of this Guide is to explain what digital media overuse/addiction entails, how to recognize it, and what to do if your adolescent is struggling with overuse.
This Guide does not replace professional consultation, nor should it be used as a diagnostic tool. Instead, we hope it will provide useful information to help support you as you raise your children in this digital age. The fact that you are interested in this topic and reading this Guide already speaks to your dedication to children and desire to parent well. You are doing great, and know that you are not alone in facing challenges with youth and digital media use. We are in this together!
Thanks to all who have contributed to the development and launch of this Guide!
Special appreciation to: Co-Chairs Amanda Giordano, PhD, LPC and Myriah Sirrocco, PsyD, LP, Alex Basche, LMFT, IGDC, Matt Edelstein, PsyD, BCBA-D, Nina Logan Jenner, LCPC, Sam Kane-Gerard, LGPC, Brett Kennedy, PsyD, Dan Lathen, PhD, Lauren Paer, Melissa Quigley, LEP, Susan Raphael, ICADC, Jean Rogers, MSEd, CPE, Advisor, Gretchen Shanahan, and Rinny Yourman, Esq.
