Can TV shows help teens navigate bullying, depression and other mental health issues?

This study provides much-needed evidence to advance the conversation about how a popular show can impact adolescent ment al health and the lessons to be drawn from it. Accurate information combined with compelling storytelling works well.”Co-authors of the report are Jordan Levinson, a UCLA graduate student in psychology; Laurel Felt, a senior fellow with the center; Elise Tsai, a UCLA research assistant; and Ellen Wartella, a professor of communication at Northwestern University.Melinda French Gates ’Pivotal Ventures and the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Technology and Adolescent Mental Wellness program funded the center’s mental health initiative, of which the current report is a part.The center published a report earlier this year assessing the  values emphasized by television programs popular with tweens over each decade from 1967 to 2017.
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