ONLINE EVENT

Screenagers: The Next Chapter follows parent, filmmaker, and doctor, Delaney Ruston as she finds herself at a loss on how to help her own teens as they struggle with their emotional wellbeing. She sets out to understand these challenges in our current screen-filled society, and how we, as parents and educators, can empower teens to overcome mental health challenges and build emotional agility, communication savvy, and stress resilience.

We witness Delaney as she finds her way from ineffective parenting to much-improved strategies. We follow other personal stories of families from an array of backgrounds with a spectrum of emotional challenges. We also observe approaches in schools that provide strategies relevant beyond the classroom setting. Interwoven into the stories are surprising insights from brain researchers, psychologists, and thought leaders that reveal evidence-based ways to support mental wellness among our youth. The impact of social media and other screen time is incorporated in all the topics raised in Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER, how it may be impacting our teens’ mental health, and what we can do to help foster youth in the face of struggles.

Features US experts including:

• Daniel Pine, MD, Chief Psychiatrist, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

• Dan Siegel, MD, Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA

• Drs. John and Julie Gottman, Founders, The Gottman Institute

• Ronald E. Dahl, MD, Chief Science Officer, Center on the Developing Adolescent at UC Berkeley

• Laura Kastner, Ph.D., Psychologist and author, Wise-Minded Parenting

• Ned Johnson, Co-author of The Self-Driven Child

• Adriana Galvan, Ph.D., Chair, Behavioral Neuroscience UCLA

• Lynn Lyons, MSW, Author, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents