Current research on impact of smartphone use
- Development of teen independence
- Relationships and IRL contact
- Current trends in child/adolescent mental health
- Sleep Disruption
What role do therapists have?
- Conveying the data in an environment of defensiveness
- Practical rules for enforcement
- Handling conflict between parents and children and parents and schools
- Social media, tracking, communication: fertile ground for anxious families
Next steps in light of the research
- Is it time to stop being so careful with messaging?
- Causality versus correlation: what we know
- Schools, “new" rules and messages of prevention
- Parents’ use and the role of modeling
Risks and Limitations