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Family Guide to Video Game Livestreaming
In 2020, there were 18.6 billion hours of video gameplay watched on Twitch, where 41% of registered users are aged 16-24. Learn about the benefits and risks of video game livestreaming and how to help your child participate in a healthy way.
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The Science of Learning and Development: How Adolescents Learn
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the development of the brain during adolescents and what conditions are needed to set children up for success at any age, including social-emotional skills, extended learning opportunities outside the classroom, and how educators should interact with the youth.
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Stop, Think, Decide, Act
In this webinar, you’ll learn about strategies and resources to support them in having ongoing conversations about online safety and TikTok’s safety features.
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2021 Impact Report
In Spring 2021, the Digital Wellness Lab was born, with a mandate to join forces with healthcare providers, scientists, and industry in order to transform the health of children, families, and society by fostering understanding of, innovation in, and humanization of the digital environment.
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Interactive Media Use and Youth Mental Health
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the most recent research on the relationships between interactive media use and the well-being of children and adolescents.
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Social Media-lutions 2022
This year, social media continues to be popular among teenagers. As 2022 approaches, consider making a New Year’s social media-lution–a resolution around social media use–with your teen to help them use social media in ways that are healthy and fun!
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Children’s First Cell Phones: Parents’ Perspectives on Risks and Benefits
In this pulse survey about kids’ cell phone ownership, parents reported that connection and safety were the primary motivators for getting a child a cell phone. Notably, parents whose children do not have phones were more concerned about potential consequences than parents of children with phones.
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Real Risks & Benefits of Building & Gaming in Virtual Worlds
In this webinar, you’ll learn about all the things immersive gaming technology has to offer and what families need to be aware of before the play begins.
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Digital Wellness Lab Applauds Surgeon General’s Youth Mental Health Advisory
In October 2021, when the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association released a statement declaring the “worsening crisis in child and adolescent mental health” a national emergency, it was a familiar story.
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Community of Concern: Social media and youth mental health
In this webinar, you’ll learn about how screen time and social media affect youth mental health and ways to promote healthy technology habits.
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Building Social-Emotional Skills With Technology: How to Use SEL to Cultivate Digital Wellness
Throughout the past two decades, social-emotional learning has evolved into one of the most frequently talked about (and researched) topics within the field of education.
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Is Social Media the Tobacco of the 21st Century?
Social media, as former Facebook president Sean Parker famously acknowledged, is “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology” by creating a “social validation feedback loop”. In a country where over 85% of adults, 84% of teens, and more than half (53%) of children own or have consistent access to smartphones, interactive media are available and insistent.…
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Silent Screams in Screens
In this webinar, you’ll learn about how to recognize, treat, prevent and talk to kids and teens about cyberbullying.
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Family Digital Wellness: When is the Internet a Problem?
In this webinar, you’ll learn about addressing and reducing the negative consequences of Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU), while helping children, adolescents, and young adults in your life adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles and behaviors.
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Back to School
In this webinar, you’ll learn about strategies for a successful back-to-school transition after a year of schooling and socializing online.