{"id":577,"date":"2013-06-19T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=577"},"modified":"2013-06-19T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T14:08:32","slug":"jamaica-hospital-hosts-annual-child-and-adolescent-psychiatry-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-hosts-annual-child-and-adolescent-psychiatry-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Hospital Hosts Annual Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-hosts-annual-child-and-adolescent-psychiatry-symposium\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?attachment_id=673\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-673\" title=\"Psych Conference1\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Psych-Conference1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Psych-Conference1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Psych-Conference1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Psych-Conference1-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Department of Psychiatry recently held its fifth annual child and adolescent psychiatry symposium, which focused on \u201cThe Impact of Computer Addiction and Online Social Media on Youth Mental Health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The purpose of the seminar was to educate the healthcare community about internet and video addiction among youth and how the prevalence of online social networks affects their mental health. Specifically, participants learned how to identify the symptoms of behavioral addiction to video games and the internet and how to screen for problematic video game play or internet use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The uses of social media, as well of the risks and benefits of online social media on youth and their families were also discussed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis year\u2019s conference was extremely important to the mental health community,\u201d explained Anthony Maffia, Vice President, Department of Psychiatry, MediSys Health Network. \u201cThe prevalence of internet use and social media has not only raised concerns for our youth but for mental health care professionals as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He added, \u201cour hope is that everyone who attended this conference now has a better understanding of computer addiction and received practical clinical tips for promoting safety and healthy development in online spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Speakers for the event included Dr. Paul Weigle, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Natchaug Hospital and Dr. Nicholas Carson, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance\/Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareThe Department of Psychiatry recently held its fifth annual child and adolescent psychiatry symposium, which focused on \u201cThe Impact of Computer Addiction and Online Social Media on Youth Mental Health.\u201d The purpose of the seminar was to educate the healthcare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-hosts-annual-child-and-adolescent-psychiatry-symposium\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mhn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}