Mental health problems often develop early

Concerns

• Labelling children and young people

• Medicalising human experiences and vulnerabilities

• Collective memory

• Pathologising normality- social anxiety/ shyness

• Real crisis???

• Antidepressants

A bugbear

Promoting good mental health for all

Recognising risk and protecting

Early intervention

Services

Social Media

Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012)

Why is this important? We will never keep up.........

Bad- normalisation, glorification, suggestion of methods, encouragement to act, triggers, spread of information, clusters

Good- support, access to information, reduced isolation and loneliness, deliver therapy, communicate distress

Implications

• Policy makers and schools need to incorporate CB into anti-bullying programmes

• Psycho-education in schools improve responses to distressed posts and develop bystander intervention

• Digital citizenship- rapid change, Instagram • Clinicians should ask about internet use and

cyberbullying • Online peer support • Vulnerability of perpetrators, restorative practice,

exclusion • BUT REMEMBER POSITIVES

Diolch yn fawr – Thank

you