Social Media and Youth Mental Health

Although the near ubiquity of social media in modern society has raised important questions about its potentially detrimental impacts on youth, discussions often center on its individual effects, largely on risks, prioritizing adult perspectives over young people's lived experience. Social Media and Youth Mental Health offers a broader, multi-generational perspective.

Examining the influence of social media on children and young people from many different yet interconnected angles, the book draws from the expertise of 41 scholars and clinicians around the world. It explores more than a dozen different aspects of social media as they pertain to youth mental health, including:   


                * Representations of sexuality in social media

• Diversity, bullying, and hateful speech on online platforms
• Online privacy
• The role of agency in media use and mental health
• The effect of media multitasking on developing brains
• The impact of social media on racial, gender, sexual, and class identities
• The relationship between social media and self-harm and suicide