SCHNECKSVILLE, PA (May 30, 2018) – Could excessive use of social media or online games be harmful to the development of our children? The latest issue of Healing Magazine asks that provocative question in a special section, “Getting Lost in TechnoReality.” The magazine’s Spring/Summer edition was published today (May 30).
Healing Magazine is KidsPeace’s twice-yearly flagship publication, providing practical and clinical information to parents, educators and children’s professionals.
“Getting Lost in TechnoReality” offers a variety of perspectives on the issue of excessive screen use by kids – from activists who struggled with “screen addiction” in their lives, a researcher investigating the mental health impact of screen use among children, and KidsPeace experts who offer advice to parents based on their own experiences.
Also in the Spring/Summer issue:
- An overview of “Motivational Interviewing,” an approach for therapists to reach those patients who resist changing destructive or counter-productive behavior.
- An examination of the work of “child life specialists” who assist children facing a hospitalization – and their tips on how to make that situation less stressful for YOUR kids
- A review of a new book about a case of suicide at an Ivy League university
- And the inspiring story of one young woman’s effort to put a self-destructive past behind her and move toward long-term healing with the help of KidsPeace’s trauma-informed programs.
The current issue is available electronically at www.healingmagazine.org. At that site, visitors can also view back issues of Healing and subscribe to the paper version of future issues. To comment on the magazine, or to suggest ideas for articles in future issues, please contact us at healing@kidspeace.org.
For more than 135 years, KidsPeace has been building on its expertise to give hope, help and healing to children, families and communities throughout the United States. Through its comprehensive range of residential treatment programs; accredited educational services; unique psychiatric hospital and foster care and community-based programs, KidsPeace is dedicated to helping people connect, transform and overcome their challenges to ensure a stable future, transition to adulthood and gain independence. Since its doors opened in 1882, more than 200,000 children have participated in one of the multitude of programs KidsPeace offers.
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Information Provided By:
Robert Martin
Director of Communications
