Tom Metherell (@tommetherell.com)

Tom Metherell

@tommetherell.com

/ˈmɛðərəl/. He/him. Researcher of young people's social media use + mental health @ucl.ac.uk. 📱🧠🏳️‍🌈 tommetherell.com

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

@acamh.bsky.social

In this #OpenAccess CAMH Debate, Lucy Bowes argues that young people's distress and withdrawal from society are understandable responses to an environment that is simultaneously over-protective in some respects and chronically threatening in others. https://bit.ly/3SAS4tj

bit.ly<em>Child and Adolescent Mental Health</em> | ACAMH Journal | Wiley Online LibraryChildren and young people's mental health appears to be worsening, despite marked declines in many forms of severe adversity over recent decades. This article argues that young people's distress and ...

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Jade Pickering, PhD

@jadepickering.bsky.social

19 Aug

How could any psychiatrist equate "not diagnosable on brain scan" with "doesn't exist"? Or find any meaning at all in "lied my way to a false diagnosis and then took meds not meant for me and felt terrible"? The problem is in the complete disingenuity. (haven't watched, just read the article)

The Guardian@theguardian.com

The Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is here

theguardian.comThe Great ADHD Myth? review – the most controversial show of the year is hereDr Max Pemberton isn’t uncompassionate or especially radical, but he assembles a team of medics whose stance on the condition is clear from the off. This is a documentary that will incense and offend many

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Springer

@springer.springernature.com

8 Aug

This #OpenAccess study from 'Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology' investigates the cross-sectional associations of digital technology use with mental health indicators during the pandemic in 12 countries in the Global South. bit.ly/4q1eLTV 🧠🩺 #MentalHealth

bit.lyChildren’s social connections, internet usage and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South: evidence from Disrupting Harm - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPurpose There is a notable lack of studies investigating the mental health associations of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Global South, particularly with regard to the use of digital technologies. We aimed to investigate the cross-sectional associations of digital technology use with mental health indicators during the pandemic in 12 countries in the Global South. Methods We used data from the UNICEF Innocenti Disrupting Harm survey. The survey included a representative sample of 11,912 internet-using children aged 12–17 in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. We modelled the associations of social connection during lockdown and internet use during the pandemic with six different indicators of wellbeing in each country (excluding Tanzania, where there had been no lockdowns) and in the overall sample using robust linear and logistic regression. We controlled for a range of putative socioeconomic and demographic confounders and handled missing data using multiple imputation. Results We did not find clear evidence for any general associations of social connection or internet use with mental health indicators during lockdown across countries. Rather, our results are complex and demonstrate that the relationship depends heavily on an individual’s context; not just on the country they are living in but also on their gender, urbanicity and other factors. Nonetheless, our results highlight key focus areas for further research. Conclusion Extensive further research is needed to identify ways in which technology use, including internet use, might act as a risk or protective factor relevant to mental ill health among young people in the countries of the Global South.