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Screen Time and Adolescent Brain Development: Research and Therapeutic Tools with Alia Aizenstat, MA
This generation of digital natives, deemed “i-Gen,” spends little time facing boredom or engaging in imaginative play. Instead, the i-Gen is immersed in a digital world, bombarded by media and advertisements. Newer research demonstrates changes in brain development in young people that appear to be a result of this remarkable surge in time spent on screens each day. In this session, we will explore current research on screens and brain development and offer tools from the Virtual Identities Integration Treatment (VIIT) model to empower youth and families to make choices about their digital use. The aim is to utilize technology as a tool over which they have control; to reduce time spent immersed in the digital world and to spend more time imagining, experiencing, exploring, and dreaming the world forward.
Screen Time and Adolescent Brain Development: Research and Therapeutic Tools with Alia Aizenstat, MA
This generation of digital natives, deemed “i-Gen,” spends little time facing boredom or engaging in imaginative play. Instead, the i-Gen is immersed in a digital world, bombarded by media and advertisements. Newer research demonstrates changes in brain development in young people that appear to be a result of this remarkable surge in time spent on screens each day. In this session, we will explore current research on screens and brain development and offer tools from the Virtual Identities Integration Treatment (VIIT) model to empower youth and families to make choices about their digital use. The aim is to utilize technology as a tool over which they have control; to reduce time spent immersed in the digital world and to spend more time imagining, experiencing, exploring, and dreaming the world forward.
