Youth and Social Media
For Clinicians
Social Media Resources For CLinicians
Clinicians, build your social media support toolkit with the following resources.
Digital Wellness Lab
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- For youth who have experienced sextortion
- Netsmartz Resources for Parents, Educators & Communities
- Take It Down program – developed to help families with children whose images have been shared online
- Cyber Tipline – for parents
Cambridge University Press
- Handbook for Adolescent Digital Media Use and Mental Health – A free resource that compiles research that explains what’s been learned so far about the impact of social and digital media on youth and mental health.
Papers
Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health: Intervention-Focused Future Directions, Springer Nature, November 2023 (with Dr. Heide Rollings)
Perspectives of clinicians on the potential impact of social media on social and emotional wellbeing, training needs, and screening recommendations: a preliminary examination, Frontiers in Psychiatry, February 2025 (with Amy Mancuso, LMSW, and Dr. Heide Rollings)
Other Valuable Resources
- MARC Center: Practitioner Resources – including points to review with parents and caregivers, and tips for helping when a child is being bullied or cyberbullied.
- Harvard University: Center for Digital Thriving – tips on how to have more meaningful choice, intentionality, and control over how technology fits into our lives.
- American Academy of Pediatrics: Center of Excellence on Social Media and Mental Health – dedicated to creating a healthy digital ecosystem for children and adolescents.
Social Media and Mental Health: How to Support Teens Use Social Media in Safe and Healthy Ways
This September 2023 Pearls for Partners session reviewed current research on social media and adolescent mental health, outlining risk factors and ways that clinicians can support teens. Content shared included strategies for identifying risky or harmful social media use and how adults can help adolescents use social media in healthy ways. Link to the slide deck here or view the presentation below.
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Let us know if you’d like to share additional links or request specific information to be shared, or if you are a clinician who is seeking additional training or support, please send us an email at youthsocialmedia@pinerest.org.
