By Anne Collier While the US mental healthcare field is considering whether “Internet addiction” is a disorder, it doesn’t seem to understand how vast and diverse Internet use is. When a CNN reporter asks psychiatry professor Charles O’Brien at...
Level-headed advice for parents who really want to help and not overreact By Anne Collier It’s no longer just two talks that parents need to have with their kids, the New York Times suggests – “the early lesson about the ‘birds and the bees’...
by David Finkelhor, Heather A. Turner & Sherry Hamby This commentary argues that it is time to make bullying less of the central concept in efforts to combat peer victimization. Bullying has been a pivotal concept in the mobilization of effort in recent years to...
This post is adapted and expanded from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 5, 2012 by Larry Magid There has been a lot of work over the past few years to combat online and offline bullying. Olweus Bullying Prevention Program has been providing...
A view from the launch of what Lady Gaga aims to be a movement to empower youth and fuel kindness By Anne Collier Surrounded by some of the best thinkers and researchers in the bullying prevention, social media, and youth empowerment fields, Wednesday (2/29) I got to...
This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on February 27, 2012 by Larry Magid I might be overly optimistic, but I hope this will be remembered as the month digital privacy rights finally started to become real. Last Wednesday, California Attorney General Kamala...
