What Trusted Adults Need to Know about Social Media and Mental Health

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Anna Bateman Mental health expert and former DfE adviser
Guide

This free online safety guide focuses on the positive and negative impacts of social Media on mental health. It looks at how to tackle a range of potential risks such as damage to mental wellbeing, addiction and cyberbullying.

A free online safety guide on social media and mental health.

Social media is often pigeonholed as having a purely negative impact on children’s mental health. Children and young people are now growing up in a world dominated by technology, and social media plays a major role in their lives. This balanced guide examines both the positive and negative impacts that social media can have on young people and their mental health.

In this guide, you'll find tips on a number of topics, including mental wellbeing, addiction and cyberbullying.