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Parenting in the digital age has been characterized as one of the most challenging tasks of the modern era. Parents are ambivalent about their mediating role. However, problematic aspects of adolescent online use have not been adequately addressed in education. The present study investigated parental perceptions of intervention needs within schools to prevent excessive/problematic use, enhance parent-child communication, and reduce family conflicts. Nine interviews with parents of adolescents residing in the UK were carried out and analyzed utilizing thematic analysis. Three main themes emerged as parental proposals: (i) schools as digital education providers and prevention hubs, (ii) provision of mental health literacy to raise awareness, resolve ambiguity regarding impacts and mitigate excessive use and impacts, and (iii) psychoeducation and upskilling. The third theme related to impacts from time spent on screens (time displacement), content-related impacts, and context-related impacts. The present study offers recommendations for media literacy during adolescence beyond e-safety (i.e., addressing interpersonal communication problems, privacy vs. disclosure issues), based on parents' views, and provides new insights for media and emotional health literacy collaboration efforts. Future work should investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of such interventions to support the emotional health of young people and prevent problematic internet use escalation.
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Internet Use , Parent-Child Relations , Adolescent , Child , Humans , Internet , Parenting , Policy , SchoolsABSTRACT
In this age of unprecedented expansion of media and information dissemination and sharing, the use of electronic means should be reconsidered. The use of new technologies should be studied to understand how it may affect the relationship between patient and therapist during psychotherapy or psychoanalytic treatments. This study offers a critical discussion of the effect of technologies on clinical practice, and vignettes are used to describe their impact on frame, anonymity, abstinence and therapeutic neutrality. Transfer and countertransference issues resulting from these changes are also discussed. The potential benefits of new technologies in psychotherapy are appreciated, but the authors draw attention to the need to reflect about the presence of the therapist in those technologies and the preservation of the therapeutic setting, so that a satisfactory progression of the work of the dyad is ensured. This study also discusses the use of technologies in the expansion of learning and application of the therapeutic technique to overcome geographic and time barriers, among others (AU)
Na era da expansão sem precedentes dos meios de comunicação, da divulgação e compartilhamento de informações por meios eletrônicos, torna-se necessário repensar sua utilização. Os autores consideram importante compreender de que forma o uso das novas tecnologias pelos pacientes e terapeutas interfere na relação entre ambos na vigência do tratamento psicoterápico ou psicanalítico. É proposta uma discussão crítica acerca de sua influência na prática clínica, e apresentado em vinhetas o impacto no enquadre, no anonimato, abstinência e neutralidade terapêuticas. Também são abordadas questões transferenciais e contratransferenciais decorrentes dessas mudanças. Os autores consideram os benefícios potenciais das novas tecnologias na prática psicoterápica, alertando porém para a necessidade de reflexão a respeito de sua presença nas mesmas e de preservação do setting terapêutico, visando sempre a evolução satisfatória do trabalho da dupla. Outro aspecto considerado neste trabalho é sua utilização na expansão do aprendizado e aplicação da técnica psicoterapêutica, superando, entre outras, barreiras geográficas e temporais (AU)