#childrens-mental-health

#childrens-mental-health

According to a new filing in the Northern District of Californi a, which has been put forward by a collective of more than 1,800 plaintiffs, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube have "relentlessly pursued a strategy of growth at all costs, recklessly ignoring the impact of their products on children's mental and physical health." 'In a 2020 research project code-named 'Project Mercury,' Meta scientists worked with survey firm Nielsen to gauge the effect of 'deactivating' Facebook, according to Meta documents obtained via discovery. To the company's disappointment, 'people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,' internal documents said.' The suit alleges that Meta buried these findings, and canceled any further work on this element, arguing that the results were tainted by the 'existing media narrative' around the company.

A mobile skatepark moving between displacement camps in Gaza is providing rare mental health support to children trapped in one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises, where trauma and grief are rife. Amid the wreckage of Gaza City, where collapsed buildings and twisted concrete dominate the landscape, a group of young Palestinians has transformed the destruction into an unlikely playground.

Low-demand, familiar routines help children with neuroimmune reactive avoidance feel safer during summer by providing predictable daily structure, which supports nervous system regulation.

The Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act requires platforms to allow users to opt out of recommendation algorithms to combat prolonged screen time, particularly among kids.