Posts Tagged: Teens

Video Games, Social Media and Mental Health: Research Debates on Screen Time Continue

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Description: The debates and the research focused upon the impacts of video gaming and social media use on developing children and youth are heated and ongoing. The primary difficulty in sorting out the effects of video gaming and social media use is tied up in the comprehensive nature of their uptake in the population. As… Read more »

Psychology and Covid-19: Young Teen Resets

Posted by & filed under Child Development, Cognitive Development: Piagetian and Vygotskian Approaches, Emerging Adulthood, Families and Peers, Human Development, Stress Coping - Health, Student Success.

Description: No doubt you have heard about the stresses being experienced by parents as they isolate at home with their children and try to manage, entertain, and perhaps educate them until schools and other places children can go re-open. Which parents would you predict are experiencing the hardest stress hit, based on the age of… Read more »

Teen Dating and Development: Normative?

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Description: Often when we are looking at what is going on at certain points in human developmental trajectories, we make assumptions. We assume that something that most individuals at that particular age or stage are doing is normative. Normative technically just means most frequent but additional meaning is usually included with term. We frequently assume… Read more »

Research on the Impacts of Screen Time: What should it look like?

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Description: Even if you are barely paying attention you cannot have missed media accounts and speculations regarding the impacts of screen time on development in childhood and on wellbeing among adolescents. Before we push panic buttons and start to crusade against another new technology (like we did about television a few decades ago) we should… Read more »

Child and Teen Anxiety Increasing: What to Do?

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Description: To carry the epidemiology theme a bit further think about the answer to this question: Are children and teens more anxious today than in the past (in previous generations)? Think about what you have heard or read in the media about this question and then think about whether you have seen any research data… Read more »

What’s Wrong? … “Nothing”!! Changing the Conversations Between Parents and Teens

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Description: Think about this either based on personal experience or hypothetically. A teenager goes to school in the morning seeming rather relaxed and happy. At the end of the day they return home quiet (sullen) and clearly distracted. When one of their parents asks what is up they respond “nothing” in a grumpy tone and… Read more »