The digital world, perhaps the biggest change to human culture since the industrial revolution, presents both opportunities and risks for young people’s development, mental health and wellbeing, and involves all aspects of their lives. At present no single academic discipline or organisation has the breadth and capacity to coordinate research and policy in this area.
Digital Youth, conducted in collaboration with our Young Person Advisory Group ‘Sprouting Minds’, aims to: understand what causes online mental health harms, identify the biggest risks young people face, find ways to build online resilience, and create effective online mental health support and interventions.
The Digital Youth team is working to find practical solutions through understanding the complex risks and opportunities for mental health associated with young people’s engagement with the digital world with the aim of generating new preventative and therapeutic interventions.
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