Posts Tagged ‘teens’ mental health’

Responding to mental health crises through social media

Thursday, August 1st, 2019
mental health

The Online Crisis Intervention programme supports social media users who are experiencing mental health crises. It’s a world-first online project, run out of west-Auckland. “Reaching out for help in a moment of crisis can be hard, ” says Andrew Sutherland. Sutherland is the manager of Live for Tomorrow, a project of Zeal. He says that to assume Read more

Extreme internet use linked to mental illness in teens

Thursday, July 6th, 2017

More than one-third of 15-year-old children in the UK could be classified as ‘extreme internet users’, or those who are online for more than six hours daily outside of school. A report from UK think-tank Education Policy Institute (EPI) states that children in the UK have a higher rate of extreme usage (37.8 percent of all UK Read more