Editorial: Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health: Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health

TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial: Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health

T2 - Control alt delete – technology and children's mental health

AU - Thabrew, Hiran

AU - Gega, Lina

N1 - Funding Information: H.T. and L.G. are Joint Editors for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. The authors have declared that they have no competing or potential conflicts of interest in relation to this editorial. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.

PY - 2023/1/15

Y1 - 2023/1/15

N2 - With international contributions from Denmark, Peru, Italy, Turkey, Estonia, Russia, Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK, this special issue offers insights and evidence about the technology's ability to act as a force of good and a source of harm for young people's mental health. As we better understand the complex and bidirectional relationship between technology and mental health, we need to move beyond dichotomous narratives about it being good or bad; it is both, depending on how it is used. Collective responsibility across technology companies, researchers, public services and community organisations, parents and the young people themselves can make a difference in the way technology is used to protect and improve mental health.

AB - With international contributions from Denmark, Peru, Italy, Turkey, Estonia, Russia, Canada, the USA, Australia and the UK, this special issue offers insights and evidence about the technology's ability to act as a force of good and a source of harm for young people's mental health. As we better understand the complex and bidirectional relationship between technology and mental health, we need to move beyond dichotomous narratives about it being good or bad; it is both, depending on how it is used. Collective responsibility across technology companies, researchers, public services and community organisations, parents and the young people themselves can make a difference in the way technology is used to protect and improve mental health.

KW - cyberbullying

KW - digital divide

KW - digital harms

KW - Digital therapeutics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146343286&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/camh.12631

DO - 10.1111/camh.12631

M3 - Editorial

C2 - 36572607

AN - SCOPUS:85146343286

SN - 1475-357X

VL - 28

SP - 1

EP - 3

JO - Child and Adolescent Mental Health

JF - Child and Adolescent Mental Health

IS - 1

M1 - 28

ER -