Episode 23: Teens and Social Media

NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

Sean Erreger, LCSW, MSW, is a clinical case manager for children and adolescents at risk of inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and/or out of home placement. He has more than a decade of practice experience in settings that include foster care prevention, psychiatric emergency room, adolescent day treatment, and adult inpatient.

He suggests that social workers who work with teens should consider understanding the social media that their clients are using could be part of cultural competency.

Posted Feb. 5, 2019

Connect with Sean Erreger

• Visit his website: StuckonSocialWork.com
• Follow him on Twitter: @stuckonSW
• Find him on Facebook

Related Resources

Episode 22: Teens and Video Games

Guest Mike Langlois, MSW, LICSW, is author of "Reset: Video Games & Psychotherapy." He's a gamer-affirmative therapist whose work focuses on gaming, social media, and the impact of social networks on relationships. Langlois encourages us to change our perspective of gaming and to understand that they can be very social in nature.

For Social Workers

• Digital Devices and Social Media: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Social Work Advocates
• Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study - Funded by the National Institutes of Health
• Teens, Social Media & Technology 2018 - Pew Research Center
• Social Media, Social Life: How Teens View Their Digital Lives - Common Sense Media
• Apps Explained - Webwise
• Center for Humane Technology

For Parents and Teens

• Safer Internet Day - Feb. 5, 2019
• Common Sense Media: Facebook, Instagram and Social
• PTA Connected - National PTA
• A Teens Guide to Social Media Safety - Safe Search Kids
• Smart Social Networking: Fifteen Tips for Teens - Cyberbullying Research Center
• Facebook Youth Portal: Guiding Principles 
• Bark
• The Trevor Project

Safety and Community Standards

• What Social Media Safety & Community Standards Say About Safety & Community
  
• Snapchat Community Guidelines
• Instagram Community Guidelines
• Facebook Community Standards
• Facebook Safety Center
• Twitter Rules and policies
• Kik Community Standards