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“It’s not that we want to dampen strong emotions, we want to support adolescents’ ability to work with those emotions to think about what they mean and how to regulate them and put them to good uses,” said Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni in a new Education Week article discussing whether or not parents are allowing their kids too many days out of school due to mental health.
“The evidence linking sleep and mental health is a lot tighter, more causal, than the evidence for social media and mental health,” Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni explains in a new Associated Press article about the importance of promoting healthy sleep during adolescence.
NSCA member Jacqueline Nesi is interviewed in a New York Times op-ed about how AI chatbots might affect young people by taking key peer roles, and why we should consider regulation backed by lawmakers and research. In the article, Nesi suggests that more research is needed on how these new technologies affect young people specifically, and these results may help us better tailor and scaffold their experiences with them.
