Teen mental health and social media: what does the evidence tell us?

Ian Sample talks to Dr Amy Orben, who leads the digital mental
health programme at the Medical Research Council’s cognition and
brain sciences unit, about why the link between teen mental health
and social media is so difficult to study, what the current
evidence tells us and what advice she gives to parents whose
children are entering the online world for the first time. Help
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