SOUNDING THE ALARM: SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

Social media is a major contributing factor to the increase in anxiety and depression and teen suicide deaths over the past 10 years. Healthcare professionals, governments, educators, and child advocates, are sounding the alarm about the impact of social media on our youth. National award-winning speaker, mental health advocate, and social media expert, Wade Sorochan, provides the latest information on how social media is impacting todays’ youth, along with vital recommendations for parents and educators to keep kids safe. Learn about current lawsuits and recommended bans, risky online behaviour causing injury and death, whether cellphones should be allowed in schools, and more. Wade Sorochan is the author of the ground-breaking book Unsocial Media: Virtual World Causing Real World Anxiety.