Promoting Family Harmony: Strategies to Foster Appropriate Screen Time Use for Children and Teens

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Target Audience

Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, and other health care professionals.

Description

Children, teens, and adults spend numerous hours per day engaged with screens, sometimes causing conflict within families. When it comes to screen time, what should we worry about? This program will focus on the connection between screen time and child/adolescent behavior and mental health outcomes. Evidence related to screen time will be reviewed such as the new focus on quality of screen time vs. quantity. Additionally, a number of strategies will be explored that enable practitioners to support families as they navigate screen time use.

Faculty
Ronni Zuckerman, MSW
Clinical Assistant Professor
UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work

This presenter is being supported through a partnership between UNC-CH, School of Social Work and the NCAHEC Program.

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This webinar will be broadcast with Zoom. Instructions to join the webinar will be emailed prior to the event. You can test your computer by going to the Zoom Test Page.

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Objectives

• Outline the research about the impact of screen time upon children and adolescents.
• Explain the factors that contribute to challenging family dynamics around screen time use.
• Describe opportunities that the digital world creates for traditionally marginalized groups and assess how it also contributes to inequities.
• Construct a list of strategies that will be used to support positive family dynamics.

Contact

Gabriela Staley MEd, 704-512-6523

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