Teens, Screens, and Social Connection
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This book explores the increasingly important intersection of the digital world and mental health in the lives of pediatric and young adult populations. Young people are spending a considerable amount of time on digital screen activities such as social media, texting, and online gaming. The vast majority of teens and pre-teens have access to computers and smartphones shifting social interaction away from face-to-face contact toward online communication.
A practical resource, Teens, Screens, and Social Connection provides the reader with a targeted yet comprehensive understanding of a wide…mehr

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This book explores the increasingly important intersection of the digital world and mental health in the lives of pediatric and young adult populations. Young people are spending a considerable amount of time on digital screen activities such as social media, texting, and online gaming. The vast majority of teens and pre-teens have access to computers and smartphones shifting social interaction away from face-to-face contact toward online communication.

A practical resource, Teens, Screens, and Social Connection provides the reader with a targeted yet comprehensive understanding of a wide variety of internet and media-related topics facing youth today. Chapters include discussions on the developmental view from early childhood to young adulthood as well as the unique racial and cultural issues pertaining to technology and media. The book provides both the challenges of the internet and media to be identified as well as solutions and clinical pearls that can be immediately applied to clinical practice and real-world scenarios.

This book is a practical reference that functions as a concise yet comprehensive summary of the most important aspects of this very timely and important topic. It is an invaluable, practical resource for mental health clinicians, as well as students and those professionals who work with youth in other domains.
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Alma Spaniardi MD Weill Cornell Medicine NewYork-Presbyterian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry New York, NY  Janki Modi Avari MD Weill Cornell Medical College White Plains, NY  Alma Spaniardi, M.D. Service Chief of the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Department Payne Whitney Manhattan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr Spaniardi received her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and was a Phipps Resident in General Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She trained in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's combined program of Columbia and Cornell Universities. She has extensive experience workingin both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, including as an attending psychiatrist on the adolescent inpatient unit at NewYork-Presbyterian Cornell Westchester and as an outpatient psychiatrist with the New York University Child Study Center. Dr Spaniardi's clinical interests are quality improvement and the integration of psychiatry and pediatrics. She is an Editorial Board Member for the American College of Psychiatrists Resident's In-Training Examination (PRITE), regularly speaks at both national and international conferences and has contributed to several books on child psychiatr Janki Modi Avari, M.D. Psychiatrist, child and adolescent psychiatrist, New York City Children's Center, Office of Mental Health-New York State. Dr. Avari completed her adult psychiatry training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. She went on to do her child psychiatry training at the NewYork-Presbyterian Child and Adolescent training program, associated with Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College. In her final year of fellowship she was selected as a co-chief resident at Columbia University Medical Center. After graduation Dr. Avari accepted a position at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, where she remained for 8 years. She is an assistant clinic professor of psychiatry and during her time at Weill Cornell, she was recipient of teaching and service awards. She currently works at New York State Office of Mental Health focusing on treating child and adolescents with treatment resistant illness. Dr. Avari's areas of clinical interest are mood disorders and psychotic disorders in children and adolescents.