Social media can shape behavior and mental health in both positive and negative ways. A Yale researcher explains the risks for teens, the impact of algorithms and how to use digital media more ...

Goals are to clarify benefits and risks of social media and to contribute to evidence-based guidance for healthy use for children and adolescents.

Remember when phones were all about making phone calls? Now, especially for teens, phones are all about gluing their eyes to myriad social media screens. Today, the typical teen spends up to seven ...

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Twenge studies generational trends at San Diego State University. When she looked at mental health metrics for teenagers around 2012, what she saw shocked her. "In all my analyses of generational data ...

For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...

A teen-to-teen outreach program in Brooklyn called "Beyond the Stigma" is trying to reach those who may be struggling.

Amid the ongoing youth mental health crisis, experts and parents alike are trying to pinpoint why so many young people are facing mental health challenges. Time and time again, many point to social ...

Agriculture is a stressful occupation, and farmers struggle with anxiety and depression at higher levels than the general population. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...