Below is a list of various SMAHRT resources for parents, adolescents and researchers alike.
For Parents and Adolescents
Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
The Center’s work is guided by its co-Medical Directors, Megan Moreno, MD, MPH, MSEd, FAAP and Jenny Radesky, MD, FAAP, who are pediatricians and experts in the field of youth development and media. We will have collaborative conversations with youth, families and community representatives, with lived experience, to help inform and shape our work.
Media is everywhere, and managing it all can be tough. Use the AAP Family Media Plan to help you and your children set media priorities that matter most to your family. Create your family media plan here.
Tweens & Tech Parent Handout
Our team wanted to understand what is important to tweens about smartphone and social media ownership and use. For this study, we found three themes from the tween’s discussions including maturity, deference to parents, and accountability.
SMAHRT YouTube channel
The Excellence in Pediatrics Institute’s Parent Talks by Dr. Megan Moreno feature a series of short clips on providing advice, suggestions, answers, and knowledge to parents with questions concerning the use of social media and the health of their adolescent children. Topics vary from possible side effects of using social media to the appropriate age for children to be active on social media.
For more SMAHRT video resources, watch Steps of the Research Process and Conference talks, or visit our SMAHRT YouTube channel.
JAMA Pediatrics
Dr. Moreno writes a monthly column for the Journal of the American Medical Association, where she provides advice to patients on a wide range of topics, from cyberbullying to indoor tanning.
For more articles visit the JAMA Pediatrics website.
Bullying occurs throughout the world and can happen at many stages in the life course, from childhood to adolescence and even to adulthood. While traditional schoolyard bullying still exists, in recent years, the internet has provided a new platform for bullying.
– Dr. Megan Moreno on cyberbullying
Today parents are facing many challenges with their kids in relation to cyberbullying, sexting, porn, and problematic internet use. Dr. Moreno’s book Sex, Drugs, ‘n Facebook strives to guide parents through conversations on these key areas of improvement.
For Researchers and Pediatricians
Women Rock Science is a pocket guide for success in clinical academic research careers. If you are a woman in clinically relevant science, this book is for you. This book develops an understanding of research careers occurring within a greater community of colleagues and academicians as well as the fact that women themselves lead within a group, a community, and a context.
Learn more about the women scientists that contributed to this book.
Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care, by Lawrence Neinstein, Debra Katzman, Todd Callahan, Catherine Gordon, Alain Joffe and Vaughn Rickert. We can be found in the chapter on Technology and Social Media.
Wiley Handbook of Psychology, Technology and Society, edited by Dr. Larry Rosen, Dr. Nancy Cheever, and Dr. Mark Carrier.
The Psychology of Social Networking Vol. 1: Personal Experience in Online Communities, by Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold and Pietro Cipresso.
Full access for “The Psychology of Social Networking Vol. 1: Personal Experience in Online Communities can be found by clicking the above link, however, the chapters you can find Dr. Megan Moreno and SMAHRT in can be accessed through these links:
- Chapter 10: Ethical and Regulatory Considerations For Social Media Research, by Megan Moreno, Natalie Goniu, Peter Moreno and Doug Diekema.
- Chapter 11: Media Theories and the Facebook Influence Model, by Megan A. Moreno and Rosalind Koff.