Digital Wellness Lab founder Dr. Michael Rich goes in depth explaining ways healthcare providers can help handle social media’s impact on youth.
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Digital Wellness Lab founder Dr. Michael Rich goes in depth explaining ways healthcare providers can help handle social media’s impact on youth.
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The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich answers a wide variety of questions on how families can help guide kids through the complex risks of increasingly online lives.
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An effort to increase the awareness of the need for digital wellness in Nigeria cites the expertise of the Digital Wellness Lab.
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Digital Wellness Lab’s founder Dr. Michael Rich explains that social media use can be an attempt to self-soothe.
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The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich explains the positive and negative effects of social media, citing the Lab’s recent Pulse Survey results. He also emphasizes the need for parents to become and stay engaged with their children. (Starting at 15:00 of the video)
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The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich talks about the importance about engaging with kids as individuals and learning about their lives to help develop healthy social media habits.
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An in-depth profile of the Digital Wellness Lab and the digital media environment that makes the Lab’s work so vital.
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TikTok recently placed a 60-minute “daily screen time limit” on the app for users under 18. While that limit can be overridden with passcodes, the hope is that the pause will serve as a “speed bump” to force teens to think about what they’re doing and decide if they want to continue. The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich was interviewed for this article.
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The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich contributes practical advice on how to help children develop healthy media habits.
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Professor Keneisha Sinclair-McBride, a child psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital who consults with the Digital Wellness Lab, gets in depth with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about the mental health effects of youth use of social media. She also offers some reassurance based on her clinical experience with young people today. (Starting at 9:00 of the audio)
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