Editorial: Screen time, social media and developing brains: a cause for good or corrupting young minds?. Issue 3 (18th August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dubicka, Bernadka; Martin, Jennifer; Firth, Joseph
• Is Part Of: Child and adolescent mental health. Volume 24:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 204
• Publication Date: 2019-08-18
• Subjects: Adolescent psychology -- Periodicals; Child mental health -- Periodicals; Child psychiatry -- Periodicals; Child psychology -- Periodicals; Teenagers -- Mental health -- Periodicals; 155.405
• DOI: 10.1111/camh.12346
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1475-357X

Abstract

Abstract : In 2018, the Royal College of Psychiatrists held a debate for young people about social media, a subject of their own choosing. The young people spoke eloquently but had differing views. One young person held up his smartphone and stated 'this is my heroin – it's the heroin of our generation'. In contrast, another young person argued 'I don't agree – this is my life line, I am a looked‐after child, living on my own, and it's the only way I have of keeping in touch with my family and friends'.