64.1 Rebooting the Psychiatric Evaluation: How to Ask Digital Natives About Their Media Use and Make Sense of It

Media use is usually seen as a peripheral concern in mental health assessment and treatment planning, although it is an almost universal behavior among youth across age, sex, class, and culture. I describe an approach to the mental health assessment of digital media use by youth to help psychiatrists formulate its meaning in their patients ’ lives. I apply the traditional framework of the adolescent mental health assessment that is well known to mental health clinicians and innovate from within the typically covered domains.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nicholas Carson Source Type: research